Sentences with phrase «in military confrontations»
Venezuela found itself in a military confrontation with the UK, Germany, and Italy in 1902, after halting debt payments.
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«What the president is doing by making his own unilateral decisions that indicate that we're ready to start a military confrontation --- that's just moving in the wrong direction.»
Outside of a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula, a big risk for the market in 2018 remains inflation rising quicker than expected, which could force the Fed to move faster than it presently intends to in the United States.
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.
Or, a real wind - down of the military confrontation with Russia, not only directly on its borders, but also in Syria, Libya, and elsewhere in the Near East.
As for iran expect Obama to begin a military confrontation with them in June - Sept.
The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.
Most, if not all reasons advanced for their appeals for me to reembrace my initial position are based on fears of a military confrontation that leads to violence and concerns for an outbreak of war in our peaceful country of ours.
What then is the evidence suggesting a continued reluctance to engage in full - scale military confrontation?
China, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan, among others, have often engaged in bilateral disagreements with resulting spikes in diplomatic tension and even military confrontation.
The ceremonial planting on the Military Demarcation Line laden with symbolism, with the pine tree standing for peace and prosperity in an area synonymous with confrontation and division over the past 65 years.
«He was in the vanguard, as a chieftain of the OPC, in the confrontation with the military, during the June 12 struggle, to reclaim the mandate given to our son, Chief Abiola, which earned him series of detentions by the authorities.»
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.
Given the picture's enduring popularity, there's really no point in rehashing the plot — OK, for the uninitiated (all two of you): Ripley (series star Sigourney Weaver) heads back into space and leads a team of military grunts against the nasty extra-terrestrials — but there's always room to rehash many of the highlights: Weaver's terrific performance in the central role; the contrast between the heroic Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) and the cowardly Private Hudson (Bill Paxton); the escalating villainy of company man Burke (Paul Reiser); scripter Cameron's ability to keep piling on confrontations and director Cameron's ability to milk them for maximum tension; and, of course, those wonderful alien creations.
It will not be in the form a military confrontation as it was with past generations.
As you'd expect during this time of growing global concerns, many people are wondering if a prolonged military confrontation in the Middle East will finally stall the two - year record - breaking pace of the housing sector.