Sentence examples for unexpected confrontation from inspiring English sources

Appelt ties up all these threads neatly in a triumphant and unexpected confrontation of good and evil.

Mr. Chander acknowledged setting the fire, the authorities said, but said it had started during an unexpected confrontation with his family members.

One afternoon in the autumn of 1995, there was an unexpected confrontation at the airport outside Sarajevo between then Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who was with his military aide, General Wesley Clark, and two leaders of the United Nations peacekeeping forces — a British general named Rupert Smith and a French general named Jean-René Jean-René Bachelet

Report to JFK: The Skybolt Crisis in PerspectiveBy Richard Neustadt.Cornell University Press; 177 pages; $25 and £18.99IN 1962, amid the mood of exhilaration after the settling of the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy found himself in an unexpected confrontation with his nation's closest ally.

Mr. Bush has been widely praised for his administration's discipline, the speed with which he won consensus for what will likely prove to be one of the biggest tax cuts since the Reagan era, and the largely successful way he faced his first foreign challenge, an unexpected confrontation with China.

By Joe Klein One afternoon in the autumn of 1995, there was an unexpected confrontation at the airport outside Sarajevo between then Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who was with his military aide, General Wesley Clark, and two leaders of the United Nations peacekeeping forces — a British general named Rupert Smith and a French general named Jean-René Bachelet. Jean-René Bachelet

Humans were often completely unprepared for those unexpected confrontations in the hearts of major cities, which seemed at odds with the classic narrative that wildlife belonged in nature areas and remote, faraway places rather than where people lived and worked.

After one too many unexpected confrontations with hunters, Mr. Ogens, the Sierra Club's local outings leader, suspended the group's monthly nature walks last month, saying he would not resume them until the hunting stopped.

In the ad, you said, "Racial profiling is not only wrong and degrading: it's dangerous and can lead to unexpected confrontations.

When the media came to document the events in Clichy-sous-Bois, they were met with an additional, unexpected kind of confrontation: behind one of the countless cars in flames was a black-and-white photograph that was pasted onto the side of an apartment building some time before and took up its entire width.

Vice President Al Gore's camp was hoping to add a little unexpected drama to a confrontation already freighted with import in a race that is excruciatingly close.