Sentence examples for serious encounter from inspiring English sources

In December 1979, Levitan had a more serious encounter with the apartheid state.

Moss apparently wanted something more, for she embarked on a potentially far more serious encounter with the one artist up to the job.

"Here I was, my first serious encounter with the Bible, already having trouble with that translation," Dr. Youngblood said in a recent interview.

The chase, which occurred Tuesday, followed a more serious encounter in November, when Iranian warplanes fired on, but missed, a Predator drone carrying out a similar classified surveillance mission.

After surviving a serious encounter with cancer of the oropharynx, Laura dedicated herself as a patient-to-patient peer counselor for in-coming cancer patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, volunteering as many as five or six days a week for nearly twenty years.

Women also have more vigorous immune systems than men: of the 10 most common infections, men are more likely to have serious encounters with seven of them.

I know a number of women in their 20s and 30s who openly define themselves as bisexual and who are happy to flit between both casual and more serious encounters with women and with men.

But then, after the first couple of serious encounters, I found a cause and a calling, you know?

The stay of the Division in this sector was marked by several serious encounters with the enemy, where considerable forces were engaged.

Now, a growing number of school districts across the country are discarding policies that experts say target minority students unfairly, and increase their odds of more serious encounters with the justice system as they age out of school.

At the age of eleven, she had what seems to have been her first serious sexual encounter, with a young woman.