confrontation
Example Sentences
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The prospect of a major confrontation between the Lebanese state and Hezbollah has also long been a major concern, reawakening fears of a descent back into civil war.
From BBC
As Sam Sacks writes of this posthumously published collection of short stories, “Segal never loses her equipoise, or her sense of humor, in these most extreme confrontations with mortality.”
The confrontation outside the federal Metropolitan Detention Center came after hours of peaceful “No Kings” demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles and across the county.
From Los Angeles Times
The fatal confrontation reportedly began with disturbances outside a conference at Sciences Po, the highly-regarded French political science institute.
From Salon
That approach lowers the stakes of confrontation but reinforces the idea that the primary goal is expression rather than persuasion.
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