7 sentences with 'confrontation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word confrontation and other words derived from it.
• « The first notable confrontation took place on May 26, 1937, when the United Auto Workers sought - legally - to distribute leaflets at the Rouge River plant. »
• « As the centuries passed, Rome became increasingly dependent both on Germanic troops and on the allied tribes' confrontation with hostile ones. »
• « German nationalism, however, was very strong and in 1848 culminated in the confrontation, which lasted about a year, between the elected group of German nationalist politicians in Frankfurt and the kings of Prussia and Austria (and those of the smaller German kingdoms). »
• « Freud then identified another area of the unconscious as the "Superego": the social pressure to conform, the confrontation with external authority, and the overwhelming sense of shame and inadequacy that can, and usually does, result from facing all the pressures of life in human society. »
• « In retrospect, it is somewhat surprising that the USSR was not more aggressive in the early years of the Cold War, making no overt attempt to sponsor communist takeovers outside Eastern Europe. The only direct confrontation between the two camps took place between May 1948 and June 1949, when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin. »
• « As described in the last chapter, Cuba was caught at the centre of the most dangerous nuclear confrontation in history, in part because the USSR was willing to directly confront American interests. »