Sentence examples for some sort of confrontation from inspiring English sources

The media chatter around the show was less about the actual awards and more about whether or not there would be some sort of confrontation between the three artists during the broadcast.

There are no obvious or direct repercussions from this apparent lie, but it sets the tone for the remainder of a novel in which almost every conversation is some sort of confrontation, and in which the narrator is constantly on the verge of some drastic gesture or futile outburst.

"There's always some sort of confrontation between centre-backs and strikers and it made for a stop-start game at times.

He was working in a nearby building and saw Mr Brown leaning through the police car window and "some sort of confrontation was taking place".

When Wei was present at some sort of confrontation or protest by local villages against municipal authorities when more than 50 municipal inspectors turned on him, attacking him for five minutes.

Moments later Zimmerman and Martin had some sort of confrontation during which Zimmerman pulled out a handgun and shot Martin.

David: It's possible to imagine that in some sorts of confrontation with that killer or killers like this, a gun might have come in handy.

He said a diplomatic solution is "greatly preferable to us ratcheting up that conflict higher and higher, which ultimately might lead to some sort of [military] confrontation".

One is some sort of a geopolitical event, a confrontation with Iran, the Somali pirates.

The Palestinian militant group needs some sort of political win from this confrontation after all the suffering and destruction its people have gone through - the likeliest area of compromise would be some sort of easing of the tight economic restrictions on Gaza for which Israel and Egypt are jointly responsible.

But that sort of confrontation is no longer in the Pentagon playbook.