What is "confrontations"

Usage examples of "confrontations".

Saddam had been biding his time, relying on the strategy of eroding the sanctions that had been working for him since 1996 and avoiding anything but the low-level confrontations in the NFZs.

The regular confrontations there between coalition aircraft and Iraqi air defenses do allow the Iraqis to make propaganda hay of them--and their absurdly exaggerated claims do continue to influence Arab populations throughout the Middle East.

Tempone killings as Malcolm Ainslie remembered abounded with confrontations, stormy polemics, and even violence.

Pseudoscience is easier to contrive than science, because distracting confrontations with reality where we cannot control the outcome of the comparison are more readily avoided.

Doil's eventual trial for the Tempone killings as Malcolm Ainslie remembered abounded with confrontations, stormy polemics, and even violence.

She'd been present a hundred times at confrontations like this, watching clever men who worked hard to be underestimated, even dressed for the part as Toomey was dressed, perform with supposed fumbling awkwardness until a suspect made the one, damning incriminating mistake: had even played her part in such a charade.