Synonym: encounter, face-off, opposition, showdown. Similar words: confront, orientation, presentation, implementation, representation, in front of, invitation, limitation. Meaning: [‚kɒnfrən'teɪʃn] n. 1. a bold challenge 2. discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions 3. a hostile disagreement face-to-face 4. the act of hostile groups opposing each other 5. a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison.
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121. Two people were killed and several wounded in the confrontation.
122. Community and confrontation don't go together, which is fair enough but a bit cosy.
123. The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation, and most people don't know their rights.
124. The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.
125. The era of class confrontation in Britain's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910-26.
126. Even if one gets different results, they are still publishable without necessarily running into head-on confrontation with the earlier claims.
126. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
127. There were no details about any possible confrontation at the ticket counter.
128. All the way home, pedalling furiously, she had been nerving herself for this confrontation.
129. The enemy cunningly avoided direct confrontation and concentrated on guerrilla warfare.
130. They then backed off from a confrontation but stopped talking.
131. The authorities and assailants exchanged fire in a violent confrontation in which Cuenca and police officer Santiago Esparza Astorga were killed.
132. Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting.
133. He was still too confused for any sort of confrontation with the old man.
134. The best ideas often come from a friendly confrontation with employees.
135. The police were obviously anticipating a confrontation, as they were heavily armed.
136. They sense this could develop into a confrontation between teachers.
137. Julia had stayed in her room to avoid any more confrontation.
138. The whole of alternative society had been galvanized by the confrontation between Mrs Thatcher and the miners.
139. Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation.
140. A scheme which would, if implemented, bring the Seven into direct confrontation with the House.
141. The final week of the election campaign saw long debates over the proposals into a traditional left-right confrontation.
142. Held on 12 April 1931 the contest turned into a more-or-less direct confrontation between monarchists and an alliance of republicans and socialists.
143. This was not, however, the scene of the major confrontation.
144. The confrontation turned ugly.
145. Since the province was a hotbed of gentry resistance to the emancipation, confrontation looked a real possibility.
146. The last of the five periods identified by Geary is the 1980s, when industrial confrontation reverted to a more violent form.
147. The joint declarations precipitated several days of military confrontation between the federal army and republican forces.
148. He suffered from post-traumatic stress because of a lone confrontation with eight youths two years earlier.
149. What looks like a zero sum confrontation can, with a little goodwill, be transformed into a mutually beneficial nonzero sum game.
150. He fought council demolition moves for 18 months before his fatal confrontation.
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