Meanings of great encounter in English

He had a great encounter with Tyrone, and Tyrone was defeated.

The Pluto mission is being billed as the last great encounter in planetary exploration.

Such was the first great encounter between the two rivals.

Well, so it was in that great encounter already alluded to between Brian and Ivanhoe.

He had a great encounter with old Giant Doubt; so let us pay him a visit.

Eye-witnesses of that great encounter will tell the story of the last hole to their dying day.

At Naseby took place the first great encounter between the Royalists and the remodelled army of the Houses.

Thus, in the first great encounter between reason and politics, the strategy of reason was to retire in anger.

There was a breathing space for a day, while the British made ready to take part in the next great encounter.

They even came down to assist in battle, and every great encounter of armies involved an invisible struggle among the immortals.

The naval battle was on, and it was fought with all the fury of a great encounter by fleets on the high seas.

Every commander and every man knew exactly the part he was expected to take in the great encounter, and each had prepared himself for it.

Words are hushed in great encounters.

It is a melancholy but unavoidable result of such great encounters of principle that they tend to degenerate into sectional and personal bitterness.