A hostile disagreement face-to-face.
Method used to begin play in ice hockey and some other sports.
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Examples for "encounter"
Examples for "encounter"
1Although the actual encounter must have taken place thousands of years ago.
2Here we encounter a new problem: what do they mean by toxin?
3There was enormous enthusiasm and excitement at this new encounter with Europe.
4Whatever problems we encounter, we will ask God to help us with.
5Consulates in Jerusalem, Israel's declared but disputed capital, rarely encounter political violence.
1The new law takes confrontation behind the scenes, out of public view.
2Palestinian officials said 10 Palestinians were injured in the confrontation, none seriously.
3But the House vote would help set up a confrontation with Bush.
4The best way to approach this is directly but without any confrontation.
5The right approach here is one of cooperation not confrontation, he said.
1A showdown vote on calling witnesses could loom later in the week.
2The inevitable showdown takes place but barely limps past the finish line.
3The showdown comes at a time of heightened political tension in Russia.
4North Carolina edged Louisville by a point in an early ACC showdown.
5A lower court ruled against Janus, setting up the Supreme Court showdown.
1Allred added that she would even face-off with her daughter in court.
2The 1960 Kennedy-Nixon face-off served to demonstrate the importance of visual performance.
3I wanted my ducks in perfect formation for tomorrow's face-off with Hubert.
4The betting is that the contest boils down to a Bigelow-Cameron face-off.
5Instead, in the final face-off, the villain starts talking about Henrietta Lacks.
6Interestingly though, the tactical face-off begins before a shot is even fired.
7Now all three of them are standing in a tense, triangular face-off.
8A risky face-off in the Baltic between Russia and NATO remains entirely plausible.
9Thompson scored just 15 seconds later after winning the face-off at center ice.
10Of its latest face-off, conventional wisdom in Israel is that the Irish won.
11One person died, probably from a heart attack, during the face-off.
12Friday's face-off was planned as the first of three presidential debates.
13Competing males will often battle it out with a colour-change face-off.
14It was the last televised face-off before the Nov. 3 election.
15I was halfway to the kennel when I heard the first rip-your-face-off snarl.
16China swept all before them in this first big face-off of the season.
Translations for face-off