Sentence examples for uneasy confrontation from inspiring English sources

This temple has a circular plan with a peristyle of stone columns and lintels around the outside, but the wall of the circular cella, or sanctuary room, inside is built of concrete an uneasy confrontation of new and traditional forms of construction.

And it was the Nazi talk that led to the uneasiest confrontations of the afternoon, as the UKIP supporters began to take umbrage with being compared to socialists of any kind.

France's uneasy and occasionally loud confrontations with the world tend to obscure a national personality deeply private and peculiarly ardent in its veiled and melancholic way.

The quintet is a drama of strenuous confrontations and uneasy alliances, with the piano generally pitched against the four-headed Hydra of the wind group.

The confrontation is evidently uneasy.

BEIJING — As tensions mount with its neighbors over islands in nearby strategic waterways, China has scored some subtle victories, making the United States and its allies increasingly uneasy about the potential for violent confrontations.

By midafternoon, the confrontation had settled into an uneasy standoff, with officers trying to pry protesters from the scaffolding.

An uneasy truce can all too easily explode into confrontation, especially during straitened economic times.

Though they were supposed to be representing France with a single voice, the fact is that Mr Chirac, a Gaullist conservative, and Mr Jospin, a Socialist, are locked in an uneasy "cohabitation", as the French call it, until their expected confrontation in the presidential election of 2002.

Donald Trump announced Tuesday he will nominate oil tycoon Rex Tillerson to be secretary of State, setting up a potential confrontation with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill who are uneasy with the Exxon Mobil chief executive's close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I am always uneasy on my way here, maybe because it's a process of confrontation.