"confrontation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Elias said Mr. Corzine decided to amend the disclosure forms to avoid a protracted confrontation with the Ethics Committee and to "bring the ethics process to a conclusion."
- During a protracted confrontation with a drunken heckler he deservedly came out the winner both on points and then with a clear knockout; the humiliated toper slinking out by a side door.
- He rose to national prominence in 1959 as the federal government's chief litigator in a protracted antitrust confrontation with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and General Motors.
- The group, he said, is prepared for "a protracted military confrontation."
- And, he said, the towers will not help wage a nuclear war because they would be destroyed in any protracted confrontation.
- Enríquez is also remembered for having initiated a protracted confrontation with the United States-based South American Development Company over the terms of its Ecuadorian concession and the wages it paid its Ecuadorian employees.
- The conflict was the result of a protracted historical confrontation regarding the sovereignty of the islands.
- The growing fury threatened to build into a protracted confrontation that could delay the formation of the new four-year government.
- The escalating dispute led to the Pig War in 1859 and the resulting San Juan Dispute, which was a protracted diplomatic confrontation.
- B5 Budget Presages Showdown The City Council adopted a $34 billion budget of its own making, setting up what is likely to be a protracted confrontation with Mayor Giuliani.
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