Sentences with phrase «of military confrontation»

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to allay fears of a military confrontation with North Korea, defending Trump's comments but also saying there's no sign that the threat level from North Korea had changed and that Americans should «sleep well at night.»

Without this quest for justice, within the contest of the constitution of The Gambia, and for the elimination for the threat of use of force, which is the position of ECOWAS, the impasse will continue with the risk of an escalation of a military confrontation.

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.

The possibility of military confrontation with Russia is also a significant issue for US voters, if they don't know anything else about Russia, they know it's got nukes.

Leaders of the Spartan type abhor the messy give - and - take of political compromise; they prefer the clarity of military confrontation to the shifting waters of political coalitions.

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.

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.

Two days after Trump's «fire and fury» ultimatum to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which shook the international community and increased fears of military confrontation, the president has once again dialed up the pressure.

Not exact matches

Then all of a sudden, they say, let's not meet,» he said of reporters, referring to concerns that tensions between the United States and North Korea are increasing the chances of a military — and possibly nuclear — confrontation.

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.

There has been a tendency that the peace question has been reduced merely to the question of the reduction or elimination of violent military confrontations among nation states and political groups; but now it is the question of securing for the common life of all living things on earth.

There has been a tendency for the peace question to be reduced merely to the question of the reduction or elimination of violent military confrontations among nation states and political groups; but now it is the question of securing the common life of all living things on earth.

George F. Kennan claims that the U.S. never intended military confrontation with the revolutionary government — and, indeed, the size of the expeditionary force supports that contention.

This hypothesis, remote when one looks at the military confrontation of these days, remains nevertheless among the few options to avoid the continuation of the conflict and further deterioration of Syria's social compound.

Another part of the French public wants to decrease the risk of possible military confrontation with Russia.

«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.»

Lawal, confirmed this on Tuesday, even as soldiers barricaded the road leading to Zaria, apparently to fish out members of the Shiite sect which have been having a confrontation with the military since Saturday.

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.

While never bloody or gory, expect to see copious amounts of confrontations involving a variety of mutant forces, along with a military armed with projectile syringes filled with anti-mutant drugs.

Setting up a confrontation with the federal government over the cost of educating military dependents, a committee of the Illinois House has approved a bill to allow some school districts to carve military bases out of their boundaries.

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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.