Sentence examples for sudden confrontation from inspiring English sources

Simultaneously, Japan, without invitation, dispatched a large military contingent, and the two foreign powers were in sharp and sudden confrontation.

As I watched him walk through these war rooms, I knew that he was feeling that powerful, wordless emotion that comes from a sudden confrontation with the weight of history and our own minute role in it.

Apparently without provocation, a gunman shot two young brothers, one fatally, in a sudden confrontation early yesterday morning at the entrance of their Co-Op City apartment, the police said.

There is no sudden confrontation, no moment of speaking truth to power, or at least not one that we know about (the exact cause of Sachet's execution remains a matter of speculation).

A police officer was shot in the hand and a second officer was shot through the left pants leg, but not hit, after a sudden confrontation last night with two apparently armed men during a floor-by-floor search of a Brooklyn housing project, the police said.

I was especially heartened to discover that I was not the only psychotherapist for whom the sudden confrontation with a new political reality appeared to represent a clinical game-changer, a seeming violation of some of the most sacred principles of practice I had learned in my early training.

In sudden confrontations of anything but physical dangers he is apt — he is, indeed, almost certain — to go to pieces very badly.

In sudden confrontations of anything but physical dangers he is apt he is, indeed, almost certain to go to pieces very badly.

Sudden honest confrontation was one of his counselling tricks.

It is safe to assume that Coward was familiar with Findlay's stance and has denied any lying or unfairness by the BHA, emphasising that Findlay has been dealt with properly and impartially, as his successful appeal would seem to confirm, but he seemed taken aback by this sudden, vehement confrontation.

But what made F.E.A.R. "the scariest fucking game ever" was that it adeptly tapped myriad anxieties, such as sudden deaths, confrontation, hemophobia and darkness.