Sentence examples for sharp confrontations from inspiring English sources

Pan-Arabist thought — which dominated Arab political life for most of the 20th century — insisted on the creation of a unified vast empire "from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arab Gulf," provoking sharp confrontations with Iran since the late 1960s.

In California, protesters with Occupy Oakland, where the police have used tear gas to quell sharp confrontations, chose not to participate in Thursday's call to action, shifting their next planned protest instead to Saturday in an effort to "continue this national momentum," the group said on its Web site.

In Oakland, Calif., where protesters have had sharp confrontations with the police, members of the Occupy movement chose not to participate in the call to action, shifting its next protest to Saturday in an effort to "continue this national momentum," according to the group's Web site.

Such sharp confrontation is unlikely to occur in the auto talks, even in the event of a strike.

Pragmatism would lead him to avoid sharp confrontation with Indian Muslims, perhaps offsetting any trouble at home by a peace-seeking diplomacy with Pakistan.

Marikana reminded some of the 1960 police massacre at Sharpeville; suggested to others that poverty and division had survived apartheid; or foretold a sharp confrontation between capital and labor.

He said opposition was likely in the Parliament on other elements of the program, but he added, with calm understatement, "I don't think there will be an atmosphere of sharp confrontation".

After a sharp confrontation with President Johnson during the Vietnam War, Mr. Loomis quit as director of the VOA The President had ordered American intervention into Laos and wanted it kept out of the news.

We're proud, not of the medical aspect of deafness, but of the language we use and the community we live in.' Now the couple are hoping to have a second child, one they also wish to be deaf - and that desire has brought them into a sharp confrontation with Parliament.

But every American President from Truman through Carter believed, or acted as if he believed, that through some combination of firmness and restraint, of patient negotiation and occasional sharp confrontation, time could be bought that would allow the Soviet Union to evolve in such a way as eventually to make the Manichaean East-West struggle obsolete.

The Intel that Andy Grove built had enshrined sharp confrontation as constructive engagement, in the imperious and emphatic style of its chairman, for whom decisions were crisp, choices were binary and markets were won or lost.