confrontation with/between• He is not interested in them sexually, so there is no directconfrontation between him and the newcomer.• Whatever the reason, Sullivan was convinced that he would now witness the finalconfrontation between the two men.• That led, however, to more frequentconfrontations with police, and protesters reported that they were being beatennightly.• In the face of mounting political and industrialunrest, Asquith may have been anxious to head-off furtherconfrontation withfeminists.• Beginning with the emergence of preoperational reasoning, arguments and intellectualconfrontations with others are a source of cognitiveconflict and disequilibrium.• There's less confrontation withecology.• They placed a shrew into a social confrontation with another shrew.• There was a tenseconfrontation between Allen and the other commissioners.
military/violent/armed confrontation• Eventually Wayne's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation, Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall.• The authorities and assailantsexchanged fire in a violent confrontation in which Cuenca and police officer Santiago Esparza Astorga were killed.• More than 300 people had been arrested after violent confrontations with the security forces in Ain Shams after the policeman's death.• Continuing Pictish-Northumbrian military confrontation was a part of the background, therefore, of Osred's reign.• The jointdeclarationsprecipitated several days of military confrontation between the federalarmy and republican forces.• The occurrence of violent confrontations on campuses and on the streets was no longer primarily confined to the summer months.• The imaginary war consisted of a real military confrontation, with real soldiers, real weapons and using real resources.• Following the violent confrontation the dump was closed.