Sentence examples for tense confrontations from inspiring English sources

Groups of young blacks gathered all afternoon and there were tense confrontations.

Voters agreed, a source of tense confrontations was removed, and, in the year since, crime has fallen.

Later that week, as protests escalated into tense confrontations, Young got between the police and the crowds, pleading for peace.

That did not stop a few tense confrontations in Bangkok, including one outside another district headquarters, at Din Daeng, which succeeded in thwarting voting in the district.

Even before the tense confrontations, five people had been arrested miles from the street protests, but with what prosecutors described as plans involving bombs and other devices aimed at disrupting the summit meetings.

Debate over the bill has ignited fierce exchanges between lawmakers and tense confrontations between opponents of the bill, who have worn orange, and supporters of the bill, wearing blue.

In 1961, Kennedy had his tense confrontation with Khrushchev in these heady surroundings.

To her chagrin, both men show up in time for dessert, sparking a tense confrontation.

This follows a tense confrontation with Sirocco, sleek and murderous, in a Paris restaurant.

Another raw clip showed a tense confrontation after the fatal shooting between an emotional man and riot police officers.

After days of tense confrontation, the attempt was unceremoniously abandoned and the march was instead pushed through.