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 Translation for 'armed confrontation' from English to French
mil.
affrontement {m} armé
armed confrontation
Partial Matches
face-à-face {m}confrontation
affrontement {m}confrontation
armé {adj} {past-p}armed
mil.
groupe {m} armé
armed group
dr.
agression {f} à main armée
armed assault
mil.pol.
violence {f} armée
armed violence
mil.
forces {f.pl} armées
armed forces
mil.
affrontement {m} armé
armed encounter
armesdr.
criminalité {f} armée
armed crime
mil.
attaque {f} à main armée
armed assault
bande {f} arméearmed gang
armesmil.
conflit {m} armé
armed conflict
zool.T
araignée-banane {f} [Phoneutria nigriventer]
armed spider
armesdr.
criminalité {f} armée
armed criminality
mil.
affrontement {m} armé
armed conflict
armes
porter une arme
to be armed
dr.
braqueur {m} [fam.]
armed robber
mil.
force {f} armée
armed force
manchot {adj}one-armed
aux bras nus {adj}bare-armed
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Usage Examples English
  • The 1806 Edirne Incident was an armed confrontation between the New Order Troops ("Nizam-I Cedid") of Ottoman Sultan Selim III and a coalition of Balkan magnates, the ayans, and the region's Janissary garrisons that occurred in Thrace throughout the summer of 1806.
  • In the spring of 2014, Bunkerville was the scene of the Bundy standoff, an armed confrontation between protesters and law enforcement over the non-payment of the grazing fees by Cliven Bundy, a local rancher.
  • military assistance had a "significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation".
  • Other more specialized vehicles may be armoured personnel carriers to allow them to be in situations where armed confrontation is likely.
  • , was an armed confrontation between Venezuelans and British in the region of the river over the territorial dispute between Venezuela and British Guyana, which under Sifontes the Venezuelans left winners.

  • In any case, the incident was provoked by a junior naval officer who should have known he was risking armed confrontation with a fort under orders to interdict foreign vessels, and with which he refused to parley.
  • Although disrupted by being forced off their land and through armed confrontation with colonists, the Nansemond Indian Nation continues to be based in Virginia and was granted state (1985) and federal recognition (2018).
  • Nevertheless, there had always existed a strong tension between Jean-François and Biassou that led to an armed confrontation in September 1793.
  • Consequently, the FBI was also aware of the impending armed confrontation.
  • De la Cosa died in an armed confrontation with indigenous people before he could get possession of Urabá.

  • Extraction in disputed areas of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, has led the international monitoring group Global Witness to declare talc a conflict resource, as the profits are used to fund armed confrontation between the Taliban and Islamic State.
  • The Op resolves his two problems neatly by manipulating events so that the corrupt detective and the informant get into an armed confrontation in which both are killed.
  • During the acute phase of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, Tskhinvali was a scene of ethnic tensions and ensuing armed confrontation between Georgian and Ossetian forces.
  • Joe Remiro and Russ Little were arrested in January 1974 after an armed confrontation with police in Concord, California, near where other members were staying at a house rented under a false name by Nancy Ling Perry.
  • The "Brooks–Baxter War" was a factional dispute, 1872–74 that culminated in an armed confrontation in 1874 between factions of the Arkansas Republican Party over the disputed 1872 election for governor.

  • In 1755 the French expanded the fort to its present size in response to the armed confrontation that started between French and British colonial interests as part of the Seven Years' War in Europe.
  • Because of the dangers inherent in armed confrontation, even police or soldiers who might strongly prefer to take an enemy alive may still kill to protect themselves or civilians, and potentially cross the line into extrajudicial murder.
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