"confrontation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

confrontation sustantivo

sustantivo + confrontation
Kolokacji: 5
superpower confrontation • labor confrontation • courtroom confrontation • war confrontation • street confrontation
confrontation + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
confrontation line • confrontation scene • Confrontation Clause
confrontation + verbo
Kolokacji: 21
confrontation occurs • confrontation takes • confrontation comes • confrontation leads • confrontation begins • ...
verbo + confrontation
Kolokacji: 6
avoid confrontation • provoke a confrontation • lead to a confrontation • hate confrontation • invite confrontation • ...
adjetivo + confrontation
Kolokacji: 94
violent confrontation • final confrontation • direct confrontation • military confrontation • physical confrontation • armed confrontation • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 23
(2) final, climactic, ultimate
Kolokacji: 3
(3) direct, open, brutal, harsh
Kolokacji: 4
(4) military, armed, naval
Kolokacji: 3
(5) physical, nuclear
Kolokacji: 2
(6) major, classic, legal, minor
Kolokacji: 4
(8) tense, emotional
Kolokacji: 2
(11) verbal, similar
Kolokacji: 2
(13) far, immediate, impending
Kolokacji: 3
(17) brief, prolonged, protracted
Kolokacji: 3
(18) inevitable, fatal, disastrous
Kolokacji: 3
(19) deadly, lethal
Kolokacji: 2
(20) head-on, hostile, aggressive
Kolokacji: 3
(21) unnecessary, needless
Kolokacji: 2
1. unnecessary confrontation = niepotrzebna konfrontacja unnecessary confrontation
2. needless confrontation = niepotrzebna konfrontacja needless confrontation
  • But by scolding them out of turn he has embroiled himself and news organizations in a needless confrontation over the right of the press and public to know how justice is being dispensed.
  • What could have blown into a needless confrontation - yet another incident of homeless people scrambling frantically before police in a desperate attempt to salvage belongings and pets - was averted by the Coalition for the Homeless, a statewide nonprofit organization.
  • Lofton, who the night before ignited a needless confrontation whose ramifications spilled over yesterday, was a central figure again last night before and during Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.
  • Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican widely expected to make a bid for the White House, made a rebuttal that began, "In today's multipolar world, there is no place for needless confrontation."
  • But conceding that El Salvador is in Washington's sphere of influence, he blames such "ideological baggage" for provoking needless confrontation.
  • No good can come of this needless confrontation, and it could produce a protracted crisis that leaves Russia even more wounded than it is today.
  • Avoid needless confrontation.
  • Conservatives blamed Lloyd George personally for a needless confrontation.
  • The final fact is that Attorney General Janet Reno still has no explanation that would excuse her rush to a needless confrontation.
  • In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola, which lasted much longer than it should have done because, this time, the Washington team was clumsier.
(22) sharp, sudden, noisy
Kolokacji: 3
(23) full-scale, all-out
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + confrontation
Kolokacji: 15
of confrontation • from confrontation • with confrontation • after a confrontation • into a confrontation • ...

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