CONFRONTATION


Meaning of CONFRONTATION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

direct

A scheme which would, if implemented, bring the Seven into direct confrontation with the House.

He is not interested in them sexually, so there is no direct confrontation between him and the newcomer.

He didn't like direct confrontations .

In all this he managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the security forces.

Pupils and staff meet in direct physical confrontation .

She had drawn back from a direct confrontation again, Guy realised.

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

Whatever the reason, Sullivan was convinced that he would now witness the final confrontation between the two men.

industrial

Certain of the variables included in this model augment the flashpoints approach to industrial confrontation .

The last of the five periods identified by Geary is the 1980s, when industrial confrontation reverted to a more violent form.

major

The advance forces feared a major confrontation with militiamen.

They have an uncanny way of escalating minor adversity into major confrontations and luring coworkers into the toxic circle of conflict.

This was not, however, the scene of the major confrontation .

The time is ripe for a show-down or a major confrontation over money matters.

With students and riot police headed for a major confrontation , Seoul was once again a boiling cauldron.

It became a major confrontation because of disorganisation and lack of coherence within the protest itself.

Minor disputes over specific issues blew up into major confrontations .

military

The imaginary war consisted of a real military confrontation , with real soldiers, real weapons and using real resources.

The joint declarations precipitated several days of military confrontation between the federal army and republican forces.

The Paris summit formally ended four decades of military confrontation between East and West.

The military confrontation which represented this world order has to be viewed not as deterrence but as imaginary war.

Continuing Pictish-Northumbrian military confrontation was a part of the background, therefore, of Osred's reign.

political

The fact is that ideas about the relationship between science and religion have themselves been weapons in these political confrontations .

But the fundamental explanation for the absence of political confrontation between Crown and nobility remained the community of interest between them.

Through mounting intervention to sustain a profitable economy, capitalist states are haphazardly establishing a wholly new arena of political confrontation .

serious

Batty was having a serious confrontation with Alan Byrne in midfield Byrne won the first half.

This led to serious confrontations in steel, coal and the railways, on which the government had a major influence.

The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation .

violent

Eventually Wayne's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation , Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall.

The authorities and assailants exchanged fire in a violent confrontation in which Cuenca and police officer Santiago Esparza Astorga were killed.

More than 300 people had been arrested after violent confrontations with the security forces in Ain Shams after the policeman's death.

The occurrence of violent confrontations on campuses and on the streets was no longer primarily confined to the summer months.

In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.

This willingness by police and pickets to engage in violent confrontation was dramatically revealed during the 1984-5 coal dispute.

The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation .

There were violent confrontations with some 900 police, who kept the two groups apart; about 50 arrests were made.

■ VERB

avoid

The role chosen by the teacher here is as neutral as possible, to avoid confrontation , effectively a messenger.

The back avoids eye contact and confrontation , but it may invite the surreptitious gaze.

The government was determined to avoid confrontation with any Great Power over peripheral areas where significant economic development was out of the question.

Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.

So we avoid confrontations with horses.

The point is to avoid outright confrontation .

Anxious to avoid confrontation with pacifists, the authorities made life relatively easy for the objectors.

Jim had decided he was going to keep his nose to the grindstone and avoid confrontations at work.

involve

You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations .

In involves confrontation because the cross was a confrontation with evil.

An angry Jones was involved in an ugly confrontation with the Middlesbrough bench after Wimbledon conceded a controversial first goal on Saturday.

The preacher is involved in a titanic confrontation , in which he is a tiny Lilliputian.

lead

But won't it lead to confrontation between drivers and pedestrians?

It would lead to deepening confrontation in the peninsula..

The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation , and most people don't know their rights.

This sense of pride, which in some black GIs manifested itself in justifiable impatience, led to many bloody confrontations .

In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention.

This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest.

risk

You're hardly going to change the world by what you do, so why risk another confrontation like that last one?

They resist school procedures and rules but not to the point of risking outright confrontation with teachers.

Should I try to split Mark and Kevin up and risk the confrontation that might result?

seek

Pickets turned up at Hadfields on 12 March seeking a confrontation .

The point is not to seek confrontation for its own sake.

It was clearly patronage that they were seeking , rather than a confrontation with another class.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Julia had stayed in her room to avoid any more confrontation .

The police were obviously anticipating a confrontation , as they were heavily armed.

Two people were killed and several wounded in the confrontation .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An angry Jones was involved in an ugly confrontation with the Middlesbrough bench after Wimbledon conceded a controversial first goal on Saturday.

But poor countries fear confrontation will upset relations with the West.

He fought council demolition moves for 18 months before his fatal confrontation .

In some places, the confrontations are so up close and personal that agents and smugglers are nearly on a first-name basis.

The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.

The Maggot was growling to himself, relishing the confrontation .

They sense this could develop into a confrontation between teachers.

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