What's the difference between bloodbath and confrontation?

Bloodbath


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We hate the police, hate the government, got no opportunities ... Manchester was like a bloodbath.
  • (2) Hamlet, the prototype of inaction, the man who thinks "too precisely on the event", and who, when he does act, unleashes a bloodbath.
  • (3) "And that bloodbath [will be] sponsored by the Marange diamond fields."
  • (4) The ensuing bloodbath left hundreds dead and a generation of amputees.
  • (5) He spoke repeatedly of the EU's policy of integration towards former Yugoslavia, the scene of bloodbaths just 20 years ago: "We have to keep in mind that not so many years ago people from this part of Europe killed each other in awful wars … We are only focusing on what we have achieved on this continent and what could happen if disintegration starts again."
  • (6) Within hours, they were themselves the victims of yet another bloodbath at the hands of police – the second massacre of Morsi supporters in three days and the fourth in the six weeks since the army ousted Morsi on 3 July.
  • (7) Human rights agencies have warned of an imminent bloodbath, with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) refusing to surrender.
  • (8) Sarah Wollaston MP (@sarahwollaston) #Boris was speaking the truth on proxy wars and it's time for all parties in the region to end the sectarian bloodbath December 8, 2016 Crispin Blunt, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, suggested Downing Street could have handled it better.
  • (9) It ended after officials withdrew , fearing a bloodbath.
  • (10) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Survivor of Bataclan attack: ‘it was a bloodbath’ He then swivelled and shot through a car drivers’ window.
  • (12) While none of this means the Spurs will be the last team standing after what promises to be an absolute bloodbath of a Western Conference playoffs, recent history says not to bet against them.
  • (13) He recalled how as a young man in Moscow in 1943 he heard Stalin claim the Nazis had carried out the Katyn bloodbath.
  • (14) The only fucking way this country’s ever going to get turned around is it will be a bloodbath,” Stein allegedly said.
  • (15) It was one of the more notorious of the 1994 bloodbath's massacres.
  • (16) He also noted the low level of civilian casualties, contrasting with the kind of bloodbaths Mexicans have become accustomed to in the drug wars.
  • (17) France called for UN action to stop the "bloodbath" in Syria, as the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon , warned world powers not to repeat the mistakes they made in Bosnia.
  • (18) One insider described the changes as a "bloodbath that will change Five forever".
  • (19) Three men accused of plotting a “bloodbath” of Somali immigrants in a small Kansas town in order to provoke a religious war appeared in court on Monday and were ordered to remain in custody.
  • (20) Just don’t say it’ll be like Jeb’s brother’s bloodbath.

Confrontation


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of confrontating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
  • (3) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
  • (4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (5) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (6) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
  • (7) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
  • (8) He said: "Advanced economies are still confronted with high levels of public and private debt, which act as brakes on the recovery.
  • (9) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
  • (10) "The development control committee is frequently confronted with applications where developers have submitted viability assessment that show a development is only viable if affordable housing is greatly reduced often to a level of less than 20%," Hopkins said.
  • (11) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
  • (12) He confronted the conventional wisdom that time is on our side and the status quo is working in our favour.
  • (13) Because many of these issues are unresolved, it is important for health professionals to be aware of current professional standards and guidelines, as well as to consult with the hospital's attorney or risk manager when confronted with a legal or ethical dilemma.
  • (14) The government needs to show the resolve to confront paramilitary criminality in our society and remove it, once and for all,” he said.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
  • (16) Patient education and confrontation regarding noncompliance did not reduce major asthma episodes.
  • (17) Given the increasing incidence of AIDS and the frequency of haematological abnormalities in this condition, the practising clinician should have a high index of suspicion when confronted by any unexplained haematological abnormality.
  • (18) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
  • (19) When confronted with a case of dyspnoea, three questions must be asked: is the dyspnoea due to a pulmonary organic disease?
  • (20) It is hypothesized that more understanding and progress may come from an insightful review of the historical development of Canadian Mental Health Services and the goals of organized Psychiatry in Canada than will result from developing a defensive and confrontational attitude towards current events in the field.