Sentences with phrase «armed confrontation between»

Not to be too melodramatic, but, a year ago, if you had asked me what the possibility was of major armed confrontation between the United States and another big country, I would have said functionally zero.

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The confrontation between the nuclear - armed powers underscored Indian alarm at China's expanding security and economic links in South Asia.

Egyptian sources have reported that a new military confrontation is expected soon between armed militias and the LNA in the so - called Oil Crescent Area.

«Scotland Yard's investigation into the «Plebgate» incident is still incomplete almost a year after the confrontation between armed police officers and Andrew Mitchell in Downing Street.

It is also a call - to - arms: at stake in the artist's work is the possibility to speak or be called out, to confront and intervene, and for solidarity and friendship to exist in tandem with participation and debate: in short, for the possibility of a «confrontation between the self and the other», as Piper described in A. ~ A (1974), her parameters for the work Just Gossip.

In the confrontations between the Euro - American colonists and the Amerindian nations, it was the Amerindian nations who tended to be better armed with firearms and other arms on frequent occassions than their Euro - American adversaries.