Sentence examples for sequence of confrontations from inspiring English sources

They are caught in something that is not action so much as a sequence of confrontations, in which their power effects nothing but to grind each other down, in a pure conflict of egos, diamond-cut-diamond.

Unlike, say, baseball, which is primarily a sequence of individual confrontations, basketball is the consummate team sport and thus a game of positive and negative externalities.

Thursday's press conference took its place alongside an epic sequence of sporting confrontations that began with the Lions' victory over Australia in Sydney, continued via Andy Murray's stunning triumph at Wimbledon and coincided with Ashton Agar's historic knock against England in Nottingham.

Each of the program's stars faces a sequence of hypertension-inducing confrontations, which often have the stagey air of "The Jerry Springer Show".

And is it not only reasonable to imagine that, in such a sequence of eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations, at some point our luck would run out?

Kurdish poet Choman Hardi introduced herself through a sequence of five poems, beginning with the confrontation of myth and reality on her first return to her homeland at the age of five, 'At the Border'.

The latest spate of confrontations looks different.

Warren tells her life story as a series of confrontations.

The two men had a number of confrontations.

With India and Pakistan in a hair-trigger confrontation over Kashmir, the sequence of miscalculations that propelled the Middle East into war 35 years ago looks newly relevant.Mr Oren argues that neither Israel nor Egypt wanted war.

Cops say the sequence of events that led to the fatal confrontation between the gunman, 31, and his supervisor, 38, is still murky, as is the motive.