Sentences with phrase «in armed confrontation»

Perhaps trade and warfare were equivalent back in the days of gunboat diplomacy (a favoured U.S. strategy in Asia in bygone days), but absent a willingness to engage in armed confrontation, today trade and warfare are fundamentally different.

«Security guards with proper training are crucial, but I'm not a fan of armed guards getting embroiled in armed confrontations,» said Riccio, owner of Security Academy of Connecticut.

Not exact matches

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.

We have been constantly involved in some sort of armed confrontation for every year since 1946.

«(IRBIL, Iraq — The stage was set Friday for a major sectarian confrontation in Iraq after the government and the country's most powerful Shiite cleric implored civilians to take up arms against Sunni militants — a move that would partially plug the ranks of the decimated security forces with religiously motivated volunteers.

«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's the latest armed confrontation in a simmering anti-federal government movement in the rural West.

While the riots continue, several people take shelter in a motel, but when a joke with a starter pistol catches the armed attention of local military and police, the stage is set for a potentially lethal confrontation.

While this sentiment has existed in the public consciousness for hundreds of years, the basic structure of a game as a confrontation that pits the player against the CPU (or another player) makes armed conflict an ideal setting.

This is far better than the alternative of trying to take them on in the open with small arms fire, a confrontation that is more than likely going to go badly for you.

All said, unlike the first game, you won't find yourself in many unwanted confrontations with armed guards.

Mercs 2 — DEFINITELY GETTING RE5 — DEFINITELY GETTING alone in the dark Bioshock — Im not sure I can justify paying the full $ 60 for it HAWX — keeping my eye on it Resistance 2 Killzone 2 Far Cry 2 Brothers in Arms Hells highway BattleField Bad Company Bionic Commando SOCOM Confrontation

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.

The march follows the route of thousands of coal miners in what became the historic Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 — the largest class warfare armed confrontation in U.S. labor history, when miners battled police and strikebreakers backed by the coal operators for five days seeking to unionize the coalfields, until the President ordered the U.S. Army to put down the insurrection.

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.

Those who are so enamored of mass gun confiscation should try out their schemes in places like Washington DC, Detroit and Chicago, and see how many armed confrontations will result in which police shoot citizens, citizens shoot police, and the result is open warfare and a total breakdown of law enforcement.