Confrontation in a sentence as a noun

The cop seemed to be caught off guard and quickly ended the confrontation.

China hacked into the JSF project at Lockheed twice, and the US did its best to avoid confrontation at all cost.

Their response is one of problem-solving instead of confrontation, seeking to find a synthesis of the new perspective and their own.

The people who released stuxnet presumably think it makes a war less likely by postponing a confrontation with a nuclear Iran.

Someone like Woz might have let it go, because people who are taught by their parents to be "nice" tend to avoid confrontation due to the unpleasant feelings it brings.

You'd have to be pretty dumb to be an employee at a startup because of the money: bad hours, lots of risk, bad pay and lots of personal confrontation.

There's not much to be gained from interacting with strangers, even less when there's a risk of being dragged into someone else's potentially violent confrontation.

Police in America seem to be willing to escalate a confrontation or "chase" to almost any level in order to prevent a bad guy from getting away.

This is how we avoid recognizing the uncomfortable fact that a firing is actually a confrontation, and that it is super uncomfortable.

Ouch, from your third link: "Paul Nochumowitz used a racial slur during the confrontation and, at one point, asked if Stansbury, who is African-American, 'wanted a banana.

In a confrontation, they'd win. Which rather defeats the point of buying billions of dollars of air superiority hardware, don't you think?Edit: Funnily enough, Lockheed has advertising spread throughout Canberra, our national capital.

Undocumented labor is a more likely possibility, but again, no restaurant or in fact no retail place in Paris will let you take pictures inside their premises without a very strong confrontation.

He'd rather be the "average person joking all the time than a powerful businessman stressing over work everyday".By not calling out Jobs for screwing him out of $5,000, you can easily say Woz was just avoiding confrontation.

I am prejudiced against people who use their real names when the website allows them to use a nickname: I automatically assume they will be uninteresting, their opinions sheepish and will always avoid confrontation or controversial ideas.

Confrontation definitions

noun

a bold challenge

noun

discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions

noun

a hostile disagreement face-to-face

See also: encounter showdown face-off

noun

the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition"

See also: opposition

noun

a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison