Hostile disagreement

Usage examples of confrontation.

Those attempts led to new violent confrontations between the government and supporters of the FIS, including the jailing of a prominent FIS leader, Abbasi Madani.

Confrontation is not a large part of his character and Abraham, unlike his own son Joshua, both fears and dislikes his father.

According to Adams, who provided several accounts of the confrontation, then and later, he received the general with appropriate civility, saying nothing of politics.

Calhoun and submitted to the Senate by President Tyler, is rejected, because antislavery forces convince a majority that admitting a slave state will simply lead to another North-South confrontation.

How long pride of that kind might survive in confrontation with the awareness that it was the arthropodan and crustacean intelligences that could travel between the star-worldsuniting them into an empire vaster than anything Alexander, Augustus, or Jesus Christ could ever have imaginedThomas did not know.

How long pride of that kind might survive in confrontation with the awareness that it was the arthropodan and crustacean intelligences that could travel between the star-worlds--uniting them into an empire vaster than anything Alexander, Augustus, or Jesus Christ could ever have imagined--Thomas did not know.

The stage was thus set for the first of four increasingly bizarre and dangerous Kabuki-like public confrontations, as Ross Barnett and his little armies tried to physically block James Meredith and his federal escorts from entering the university.

But he had returned to Bonita Vista for a confrontation, and while he would prefer that confrontation to happen at his house, on his own turf, he was not about to run from it no matter where it occurred.

She became witness to the final confrontation between Brelan Saur and Conar McGregor.

The last thing he wanted this morning was another confrontation with the chequy lion.

And now the letters must inevitably be used as the corpus delicti at a confrontation.

And those confrontations confirmed what the Dens residents had known all along: In its own way, the Den was more honest than the daylight landscapes, because the few rules that existed applied to everyone, regardless of gender or species.

The six Chinese boys were less demonstrative than any, but even they came around in a fanlike confrontation, plainly warlike, arms suddenly stiff and ready for anything.

With its forty floors and thousand apartments, its supermarket and swimming-pools, bank and junior schoolall in effect abandoned in the skythe high-rise offered more than enough opportunities for violence and confrontation.

It is reasonable to speculate that these skull ornaments of the herbivorous ceratopsians functioned as protective devices against the attacks of carnivorous predators or in aggressive confrontations between individual ceratopsians themselves.