Sentence examples for striking confrontation from inspiring English sources

It was a striking confrontation between individuals and bureaucracy.

Hours after word spread that a livery-cab driver had been killed, another livery driver was accused of striking first in a confrontation with a man who had jumped into his car.

BBC Sport's Ged Scott, who was at the Blue Square Bet Premier match at Aggborough, said: "County fans in the away section of the Railway Stand invaded the pitch and Vaughan was struck during a confrontation between players and fans".

Seoul's habitual arrogance turned an otherwise beneficial reform of labor laws into all out social confrontation, in which striking industrial workers have drawn broad support from white-collar workers and professionals.

In a country with a strong labor movement that is usually tolerant of wildcat strikes, the confrontation has been hailed as a potential watershed event along the lines of President Ronald Reagan's firing of air traffic controllers in 1981.

From March 1984, striking miners and police were in frequent, violent confrontation.

But what is striking in the reports is the lack of confrontation.

When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world.

Both the Bush-era tax cuts and the Obama administration's payroll tax cut are set to expire, even as automatic spending cuts in defense and elsewhere kick in thanks to the deal struck after the 2011 confrontation over the debt ceiling.

Biden struck an effective balance between confrontation and affability, doing what even many Democrats thought Obama should have done in the first debate.

Another victim in the confrontation said Mr. Mineo struck him with a wooden stool, the complaint said.