Sentence examples for vicious confrontation from inspiring English sources

Pakistan is held responsible for organizing an incursion into Indian territory last summer that led to a vicious confrontation between the two nuclear-armed nations.

The contrast with what is happening elsewhere in the region – bloodshed and vicious confrontation in Syria and Bahrain, violent stalemate in Yemen and profound uncertainty in Egypt – could hardly be more striking.

As only one of so many examples, we can look to the televised and reported images from the Civil Rights movement -- the vicious confrontation of police and peaceful marchers on Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, circa 1965 -- among so many others.

It was a masterfully written and acted scene — a rash of recriminations and unearthed disappointments — from Hannah's initial tentative approaches ("Are you mad at me?" she asks) in the doorway of Marnie's bedroom to her increasingly desperate and vicious confrontations in the apartment's hallway, bathroom (a toothbrush is thrown) and living room.

And after a scene of vicious emotional confrontation, Mr. O'Brien achieves a wonderfully troubled lyricism by simply having his Isabella (Aidan Sullivan) turn her back to the audience and step slowly away from the tented playing area, into the summer gloaming of the Hudson River landscape.

The resulting confrontation is ignitable, vicious, sometimes erotic, and nearly always shattering.

Both revel in what Sands calls "the richness of the language, the outrageous, subversive humour of it, the vicious, violent, uncompromising, stiletto-like confrontations, which are fantastic for actors".

In earlier books, which reflected the simpler but equally vicious climate of face-to-face confrontations in the classroom, Judy Blume explored these issues in titles such as Blubber.

Televised confrontations between nonviolent protesters and vicious policemen with clubs and police dogs attracted Northern support and resulted in federal intervention to bring about a settlement that included civil rights concessions.

Days later, the forces of the small, mountainous republic of Georgia, trained by American and Israeli experts, were fighting for the survival of their country against Russia's army in a vicious six-day war that brought Russia and the US into direct confrontation for the first time since the Cold War and led to a threat of nuclear conflagration.

Thus, confrontation between these two opposite pressurized hydraulic circuits creates a vicious circle of momentum energy losses and endothelial dysfunction.