Enfrentamiento in english
Confrontation
pronunciation: kɑnfrənteɪʃən part of speech: noun
pronunciation: kɑnfrənteɪʃən part of speech: noun
In gestures
enfrentamiento = clash [clashes, -pl.] ; conflict ; confrontation ; contest ; collision ; showdown ; fighting ; collision course ; rumble ; match ; standoff.
Example: A seminar was held on community information last year which brought sharp clashes between librarians and social workers over their respective roles.Example: On that basis, I should like to suggest a possible solution to the conflict.Example: A library should be organised to impose maximum confrontation between books and readers.Example: Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.Example: Libraries now face the realities of the wired campus environment and the collision between library automation tradition and the new world of networks.Example: The article 'Search engine showdown' reports the results of lab tests carried out on 7 major World Wide Web (WWW) search engines available free of charge on the Internet.Example: The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.Example: A collision course can be avoided only if librarians work closely with the faculty in determining an appropriate policy.Example: It is common practice for gang members to make sure that the police are informed of an impending rumble.Example: That was one of the finest matches they ever played.Example: A 12-hour standoff ended with a man lobbing Molotov cocktails at police before taking his own life rather than vacate a home he'd lost to foreclosure.more:
» enfrentamiento armado = armed encounter .
Example: If the word battle does not appropriately describe an armed encounter between an indigenous and a colonizing people, the neutral word incident should be used.» enfrentamiento cara a cara = eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation .
Example: For Miller, though, two decades of eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations with the new chairman are proof enough.» enfrentamiento de valores = conflict of values .
Example: The reason actions do not reflect thoughts and feeling in every case is the almost ever-present conflict of values which exists in any given situation.» enfrentamiento directo = face off .
Example: Bomb disposal is a face off with your own mortality.» enfrentamiento entre rivales = grudge fight ; grudge match ; local derby .
Example: Some fights are grudge fights and these guys hate each other and is a great way of settling things. Example: Web sites such as the popular Psychobike.com are the cyberspace petri dishes that incubate grudge matches. Example: By the end of last season he was established as a firm favourite with the crowds for scoring the equaliser in the local derby with Arsenal.» enfrentamiento racial = racial conflict ; ethnic conflict ; ethnic strife .
Example: Student surveys and interviews indicate that all students perceive racial conflict on campus, though there are significant differences by racial group. Example: Roots of ethnic conflict included segregation, racism, socialization, and inequality. Example: As a result, faculty and students in the social sciences often focus on issues that are polemic -- racism, international conflict and war, ethnic strife, poverty.» enfrentamientos sobre preferencias = flame war .
Example: I would greatly appreciate any feedback (no flame wars, please) on this issue.» enfrentamiento violento = violent clash .
Example: Chaos reigned supreme on Monday after violent clashes between municipal cops and vendors resulted in stones being thrown and nearby vehicles being damaged.» evitar el enfrentamiento = avoid + confrontation .
Example: Behaviour Management encourages leadership that is positive, helps prevent situations that are already unsatisfactory from deteriorating, and avoids head-on confrontations between people.» llevar camino de enfrentamiento = be on course for collision .
Example: Two galaxies, Andromeda and the Milky Way, are on course for collision in about two billion years' time.» llevar camino de enfrentamiento con = be on a collision course with .
Example: Is the library without walls on a collision course with the 1976 copyright act?.» reglas de enfrentamiento = rules of engagement .
Example: For example, new rules of engagement for world trade are required, and America must safeguard the rights of labor.» respuesta de enfrentamiento o huida = fight or flight response [También escrito flight or fight response] .
Example: Another cause for chill bumps and shivers is your autonomic nervous system 'fight or flight' response = Una explicación para la piel de gallina y los escalofríos es la respuesta de "lucha o huída" por parte de nuestro sistema nervioso autónomo.