Sentence examples similar to set confrontation from inspiring English sources

The Corbyn critics suspect that the likes of former London mayor Ken Livingstone and others close to the leader are deliberately trying to set up confrontation with the mass membership as a means of showing where power lies and exercising discipline.

The EU and Turkey are set for confrontation over a deal on refugees as European leaders hold out on Ankara's key demands to speed up EU membership talks and provide visa-free travel for Turkish citizens by June.

The unions pulled back from a public-sector strike earlier this year, but say that "the environment is set for confrontation".The conservatism of both workers and owners makes the politics of chaebol reform highly complicated which is why the economics matter so much.

The savage come-uppance that eventually comes Hando's way – a beach-set confrontation observed by a busload of Japanese tourists – is a classic moment in Australian cinema.

He recalled Mr. Kotcheff's closely observing the pro football players appearing in the film and even wanting to lift material from an on-set confrontation between the producer Frank Yablans and Pete Gent, the football veteran who wrote the original novel.

Earlier in the day, Denton had taken the stand to testify that all of the actors on the show lived in constant fear that their characters would be killed off, which seemed to contradict Sheridan's claim that her character's death was written after she got into an on-set confrontation with Cherry.

But nighttime military operations were the only way to arrest Palestinian suspects, the official said, because summonses were routinely ignored and daytime arrests could set off confrontations.

Several of Kafka's works were a springboard, and the tone is set by confrontations with authority figures and the confined space, wonderfully set up on three levels by way of a stage within the stage.

The Xinhua report gave no explanation of what set off the confrontation.

The vote set up a confrontation with the Senate, which has its own $31 billion bill.

The confrontation set the parameters in the era of multimillionaire players.