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Confrontation   Listen
noun
Confrontation  n.  Act of confronting.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Confrontation" Quotes from Famous Books



... continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms, and to reduce the danger of confrontation ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... is actually a blessing in disguise, and it is through his "great works" that France is ready to rise to ever-greater glory in the coming reign. The Chevalier de Lorraine, always a disruptive influence, is checked not through confrontation or daring intrigue, but by artful court maneuvering. De Guiche, Raoul's loyal friend, and as consummate a nobleman of the new reign as one might expect to find, is more concerned with his love affairs and his ...
— Dumas Commentary • John Bursey

... a minute! There are one or two points to be cleared up: I am going to ask the witnesses a few questions: we will have a general confrontation—we will ...
— Messengers of Evil - Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre

... the strangest encounter recorded in history; Napoleon and Wellington are not enemies, but contraries. Never did God, who delights in antitheses, produce a more striking contrast, or a more extraordinary confrontation. On one side precision, foresight, geometry, prudence, a retreat assured, reserves prepared, an obstinate coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy profiting by the ground, tactics balancing battalions, carnage measured by a plumb-line, ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I • Various

... the accused away—but remain in the Court. I shall probably need him directly for a confrontation. His ...
— Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe - Three Plays By Brieux • Eugene Brieux

... the sort of scene it would prove, and especially as to the personality of her who was to be the central figure. Except his intimation that the interview would be necessarily without interchange of speech and presumably brief, scarcely more, probably, than a confrontation, ...
— A Positive Romance - 1898 • Edward Bellamy

... Not at all. It is only common sense which tells me that I shall always be admitted to be justified by facts, and that I could not be condemned upon a simple accusation, without witnesses, evidence, and confrontation with my ...
— Monsieur de Pourceaugnac • Moliere



Words linked to "Confrontation" :   confront, showdown, face-off, opposition, resistance, comparison, dissension, discord, challenge, confrontational, disagreement, strikebreaking



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