Sentence examples for severe confrontation from inspiring English sources

The last pages of the novel trace Chick's severe confrontation with death: his coma and subsequent "visions, delusions, hallucinations"; his long and arduous recuperation in a Boston hospital; Rosamund's unshakable love and lifesaving devotion.

But in their hilltop bases along its 40-mile frontier with Syria, Israel's northern command is readying for what could be its most severe confrontation with Syria since 1973.

Luckily, Juliana and I avoided severe confrontation, although a few minor spats were unavoidable, almost exclusively over the adherence to directions.

The European: Mr. Bildt, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine is one of the severest confrontations on European soil since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It either needed to start firing more aggressively, risking a severe armed confrontation with Israeli forces, or to start making headlines some other way.

Confrontations with cobras are rare.

The use of these mechanisms of defense is consistent with evoking a death fantasy as a consequence of a confrontation with a severe illness.

Robert Emerson, a security analyst specialising on Russia and eastern Europe, said: "The more this goes on, more is the danger from something going wrong, and, in the current febrile atmosphere, the increasingly toxic confrontation, this could have severe unintended consequences".

But something different is at work these days, whatever the special circumstances of last week's confrontation, and it is becoming severe.

A spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Eytan Buchman, said in an e-mail that it was still investigating Saturday's confrontation, which he described as "extremely severe," but that the video "does not reflect the incident in its entirety".

Later, she said that severe anxiety and depression stemming from the trauma of the confrontation had left her unable to do police work.