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Example sentences for: confrontation

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The anti-intellectual version of tête-à-tête is its English translation, head-to-head , which sounds somewhat vulgar to me and carries with it more the sense of `confrontation' than `intimate encounter.
John Lewis Gaddis, the most eminent of America's Cold War historians, has taken a risk by naming his book We Now Know . For, the big surprise of the opening of so many of the Soviet, Chinese, and Eastern European archives is that we have learned so little that seriously alters the known contours of the 45-year confrontation.
If Gaddis wants to blame Stalin and authoritarian rule for the Cold War, he must explain why the confrontation lingered on so long after the old brute's death in 1953.
At the center of the confrontation with the harsh reality of daily life is the concept of karma; that is “work” or “deed,” and the implication that the sum total of one’s acts in a previous life will determine one’s present station in life.
Although it is, of course, impossible to know how the authorities will deal with this potentially volatile confrontation, the mayor has already praised the police for their wisdom, restraint, and all around good looks in handling the situation, and dismissed those who disagree as "publicity-seeking idiots."