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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
confrontation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
▪ A scheme which would, if implemented, bring the Seven into direct confrontation with the House.
▪ He is not interested in them sexually, so there is no direct confrontation between him and the newcomer.
▪ He didn't like direct confrontations.
▪ In all this he managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the security forces.
▪ Pupils and staff meet in direct physical confrontation.
▪ She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again, Guy realised.
▪ Held on 12 April 1931 the contest turned into a more-or-less direct confrontation between monarchists and an alliance of republicans and socialists.
final
▪ Whatever the reason, Sullivan was convinced that he would now witness the final confrontation between the two men.
industrial
▪ Certain of the variables included in this model augment the flashpoints approach to industrial confrontation.
▪ The last of the five periods identified by Geary is the 1980s, when industrial confrontation reverted to a more violent form.
major
▪ The advance forces feared a major confrontation with militiamen.
▪ They have an uncanny way of escalating minor adversity into major confrontations and luring coworkers into the toxic circle of conflict.
▪ This was not, however, the scene of the major confrontation.
▪ The time is ripe for a show-down or a major confrontation over money matters.
▪ With students and riot police headed for a major confrontation, Seoul was once again a boiling cauldron.
▪ It became a major confrontation because of disorganisation and lack of coherence within the protest itself.
▪ Minor disputes over specific issues blew up into major confrontations.
military
▪ The imaginary war consisted of a real military confrontation, with real soldiers, real weapons and using real resources.
▪ The joint declarations precipitated several days of military confrontation between the federal army and republican forces.
▪ The Paris summit formally ended four decades of military confrontation between East and West.
▪ The military confrontation which represented this world order has to be viewed not as deterrence but as imaginary war.
▪ Continuing Pictish-Northumbrian military confrontation was a part of the background, therefore, of Osred's reign.
political
▪ The fact is that ideas about the relationship between science and religion have themselves been weapons in these political confrontations.
▪ But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.
▪ Through mounting intervention to sustain a profitable economy, capitalist states are haphazardly establishing a wholly new arena of political confrontation.
serious
▪ Batty was having a serious confrontation with Alan Byrne in midfield Byrne won the first half.
▪ This led to serious confrontations in steel, coal and the railways, on which the government had a major influence.
▪ The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation.
violent
▪ Eventually Wayne's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation, Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall.
▪ The authorities and assailants exchanged fire in a violent confrontation in which Cuenca and police officer Santiago Esparza Astorga were killed.
▪ More than 300 people had been arrested after violent confrontations with the security forces in Ain Shams after the policeman's death.
▪ The occurrence of violent confrontations on campuses and on the streets was no longer primarily confined to the summer months.
▪ In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.
▪ This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984-5 coal dispute.
▪ The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation.
▪ There were violent confrontations with some 900 police, who kept the two groups apart; about 50 arrests were made.
■ VERB
avoid
▪ The role chosen by the teacher here is as neutral as possible, to avoid confrontation, effectively a messenger.
▪ The back avoids eye contact and confrontation, but it may invite the surreptitious gaze.
▪ The government was determined to avoid confrontation with any Great Power over peripheral areas where significant economic development was out of the question.
▪ Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.
▪ So we avoid confrontations with horses.
▪ The point is to avoid outright confrontation.
▪ Anxious to avoid confrontation with pacifists, the authorities made life relatively easy for the objectors.
▪ Jim had decided he was going to keep his nose to the grindstone and avoid confrontations at work.
involve
▪ You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations.
▪ In involves confrontation because the cross was a confrontation with evil.
▪ An angry Jones was involved in an ugly confrontation with the Middlesbrough bench after Wimbledon conceded a controversial first goal on Saturday.
▪ The preacher is involved in a titanic confrontation, in which he is a tiny Lilliputian.
lead
▪ But won't it lead to confrontation between drivers and pedestrians?
▪ It would lead to deepening confrontation in the peninsula..
▪ The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation, and most people don't know their rights.
▪ This sense of pride, which in some black GIs manifested itself in justifiable impatience, led to many bloody confrontations.
▪ In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.
▪ This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest.
risk
▪ You're hardly going to change the world by what you do, so why risk another confrontation like that last one?
▪ They resist school procedures and rules but not to the point of risking outright confrontation with teachers.
▪ Should I try to split Mark and Kevin up and risk the confrontation that might result?
seek
▪ Pickets turned up at Hadfields on 12 March seeking a confrontation.
▪ The point is not to seek confrontation for its own sake.
▪ It was clearly patronage that they were seeking, rather than a confrontation with another class.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Julia had stayed in her room to avoid any more confrontation.
▪ The police were obviously anticipating a confrontation, as they were heavily armed.
▪ Two people were killed and several wounded in the confrontation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An angry Jones was involved in an ugly confrontation with the Middlesbrough bench after Wimbledon conceded a controversial first goal on Saturday.
▪ But poor countries fear confrontation will upset relations with the West.
▪ He fought council demolition moves for 18 months before his fatal confrontation.
▪ In some places, the confrontations are so up close and personal that agents and smugglers are nearly on a first-name basis.
▪ The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.
▪ The Maggot was growling to himself, relishing the confrontation.
▪ They sense this could develop into a confrontation between teachers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confrontation

Confrontation \Con`fron*ta"tion\, n. [LL. confrontatio.] Act of confronting.
--H. Swinburne. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
confrontation

1630s, "action of bringing two parties face to face," from Medieval Latin confrontationem (nominative confrontatio), noun of action from past participle stem of confrontare (see confront). International political sense is attested from 1963 and traces to the "Cuban missile crisis" of the previous year.

Wiktionary
confrontation

n. 1 The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face 2 A conflict between armed forces

WordNet
confrontation
  1. n. a bold challenge

  2. discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions

  3. a hostile disagreement face-to-face [syn: encounter, showdown, face-off]

  4. the act of opposing groups confronting each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition" [syn: opposition]

  5. a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison

Wikipedia
Confrontation (Rackham)

Confrontation is a skirmish level tactical fantasy miniature wargaming in which the combatants are represented by metal or plastic figures in 28 mm scale. For comparison purposes, the system's figures are slightly larger than those of Games Workshop or The Foundry.

The game is set in Aarklash, a world of medieval fantasy where knights, wizards, priests and barbarians fight each other as well as fantastic creatures such as wolfen, elves, orcs, goblins and the undead. The entire world is at war and all are fighting for the supremacy of the continent.

The rules are intended to be versatile, and are able to represent a small fight between a handful of warriors just as well as a large skirmish between several dozen soldiers and their leaders. The last rules were in its fourth edition, a single hardback edition. The first edition was only available in French, German and Italian, while the second was available in French, German, Italian, English and Spanish. Rackham collapsed in 2010.

Confrontation (Bob Marley & The Wailers album)

Confrontation is a reggae album by Bob Marley & the Wailers, released posthumously in May 1983, two years after Marley's death. The songs on this album were compiled from unreleased material and singles recorded during Marley's lifetime. Many of the tracks were built up from demos, most notably Jump Nyabinghi where vocals from the I-Threes were added, which were not there when Marley released the song as a dubplate in 1979. In addition the harmony vocals on "Blackman Redemption" and "Rastaman Live Up" are performed by the I-Threes in order to give the album a consistent sound – on the original single versions they are performed by The Meditations. The most famous track on the album is " Buffalo Soldier."

Inside the album sleeve is an artist's depiction of the Battle of Adowa where Ethiopian forces defeated Italy in 1896.

Confrontation

Confrontation may refer to:

  • The 1963-66 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, also known as the Konfrontasi
  • Confrontation (journal), an American literary magazine founded in 1968
  • A confrontation in Confrontation analysis
Confrontation (Face to Face album)

Confrontation is the follow-up to the self-titled 1984 debut album of the Boston new wave band Face to Face.

While the previous album had edgier elements, like the rap in "Under The Gun", Confrontation was starting to move away from that style. Because of that, this release can be seen as a bridge between the debut and their next (and final) album One Big Day. Like the 1984 debut, most of the songs were written by Angelo, with Laurie Sargent credited as co-writer on half. This record was not a commercial success and would be their last release on Epic Records. Many vinyl pressings in circulation can be found with a gold promo stamp on the back cover, making the non-promo copy more desirable to collectors due to its rarity.

"Tell Me Why" was released as a single in The United States. No promotional video was released.

Confrontation (Soilent Green album)

Confrontation is the fourth album from the Louisiana-based sludge metal band Soilent Green. Confrontation is also the last Soilent Green album to be released under the Relapse Records label.

Confrontation (journal)

Confrontation is an American literary magazine founded in 1968 and based at Long Island University in Brookville, New York. It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year. The journal, edited from its inception to 2010 by LIU Post English professor and poet Martin Tucker, helped launch the careers of Cynthia Ozick, Paul Theroux and Walter Abish.

Work that has appeared in Confrontation has been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Short Stories.

Confrontation (video game)

Confrontation is a tactical role-playing game developed by Cyanide and based on Rackham's miniatures game. The game is set in the fantasy universe of Aarklash, a continent riven by an unending war. The player follows a party of Akkylannian fighters in their quest to seek out and destroy the source of the latest threat posed by the Alchemists of Dirz. Their journey will take them through numerous settings with rich decors where they will encounter other races which populate the continent.

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.