noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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A scheme which would, if implemented, bring the Seven into direct confrontation with the House.
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He is not interested in them sexually, so there is no direct confrontation between him and the newcomer.
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He didn't like direct confrontations .
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In all this he managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the security forces.
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Pupils and staff meet in direct physical confrontation .
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She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again, Guy realised.
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Held on 12 April 1931 the contest turned into a more-or-less direct confrontation between monarchists and an alliance of republicans and socialists.
final
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Whatever the reason, Sullivan was convinced that he would now witness the final confrontation between the two men.
industrial
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Certain of the variables included in this model augment the flashpoints approach to industrial confrontation .
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The last of the five periods identified by Geary is the 1980s, when industrial confrontation reverted to a more violent form.
major
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The advance forces feared a major confrontation with militiamen.
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They have an uncanny way of escalating minor adversity into major confrontations and luring coworkers into the toxic circle of conflict.
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This was not, however, the scene of the major confrontation .
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The time is ripe for a show-down or a major confrontation over money matters.
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With students and riot police headed for a major confrontation , Seoul was once again a boiling cauldron.
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It became a major confrontation because of disorganisation and lack of coherence within the protest itself.
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Minor disputes over specific issues blew up into major confrontations .
military
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The imaginary war consisted of a real military confrontation , with real soldiers, real weapons and using real resources.
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The joint declarations precipitated several days of military confrontation between the federal army and republican forces.
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The Paris summit formally ended four decades of military confrontation between East and West.
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The military confrontation which represented this world order has to be viewed not as deterrence but as imaginary war.
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Continuing Pictish-Northumbrian military confrontation was a part of the background, therefore, of Osred's reign.
political
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The fact is that ideas about the relationship between science and religion have themselves been weapons in these political confrontations .
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But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.
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Through mounting intervention to sustain a profitable economy, capitalist states are haphazardly establishing a wholly new arena of political confrontation .
serious
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Batty was having a serious confrontation with Alan Byrne in midfield Byrne won the first half.
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This led to serious confrontations in steel, coal and the railways, on which the government had a major influence.
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The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation .
violent
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Eventually Wayne's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation , Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall.
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The authorities and assailants exchanged fire in a violent confrontation in which Cuenca and police officer Santiago Esparza Astorga were killed.
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More than 300 people had been arrested after violent confrontations with the security forces in Ain Shams after the policeman's death.
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The occurrence of violent confrontations on campuses and on the streets was no longer primarily confined to the summer months.
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In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.
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This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984-5 coal dispute.
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The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation .
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There were violent confrontations with some 900 police, who kept the two groups apart; about 50 arrests were made.
■ VERB
avoid
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The role chosen by the teacher here is as neutral as possible, to avoid confrontation , effectively a messenger.
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The back avoids eye contact and confrontation , but it may invite the surreptitious gaze.
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The government was determined to avoid confrontation with any Great Power over peripheral areas where significant economic development was out of the question.
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Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.
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So we avoid confrontations with horses.
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The point is to avoid outright confrontation .
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Anxious to avoid confrontation with pacifists, the authorities made life relatively easy for the objectors.
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Jim had decided he was going to keep his nose to the grindstone and avoid confrontations at work.
involve
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You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations .
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In involves confrontation because the cross was a confrontation with evil.
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An angry Jones was involved in an ugly confrontation with the Middlesbrough bench after Wimbledon conceded a controversial first goal on Saturday.
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The preacher is involved in a titanic confrontation , in which he is a tiny Lilliputian.
lead
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But won't it lead to confrontation between drivers and pedestrians?
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It would lead to deepening confrontation in the peninsula..
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The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation , and most people don't know their rights.
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This sense of pride, which in some black GIs manifested itself in justifiable impatience, led to many bloody confrontations .
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In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.
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This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest.
risk
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You're hardly going to change the world by what you do, so why risk another confrontation like that last one?
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They resist school procedures and rules but not to the point of risking outright confrontation with teachers.
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Should I try to split Mark and Kevin up and risk the confrontation that might result?
seek
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Pickets turned up at Hadfields on 12 March seeking a confrontation .
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The point is not to seek confrontation for its own sake.
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It was clearly patronage that they were seeking , rather than a confrontation with another class.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Julia had stayed in her room to avoid any more confrontation .
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The police were obviously anticipating a confrontation , as they were heavily armed.
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Two people were killed and several wounded in the confrontation .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An angry Jones was involved in an ugly confrontation with the Middlesbrough bench after Wimbledon conceded a controversial first goal on Saturday.
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But poor countries fear confrontation will upset relations with the West.
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He fought council demolition moves for 18 months before his fatal confrontation .
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In some places, the confrontations are so up close and personal that agents and smugglers are nearly on a first-name basis.
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The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.
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The Maggot was growling to himself, relishing the confrontation .
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They sense this could develop into a confrontation between teachers.