"the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"
同义词： opposition
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N-VAR A confrontation is a dispute, fight, or battle between two groups of people. 争执; 对抗
The commission remains so weak that it will continue to avoid confrontation with governments.
该委员会依然如此弱小以致它将继续避免和各政府的冲突。
Town meetings called to discuss the problem inevitably dissolved into confrontations.
为了讨论这个问题而召开的镇民会议不可避免地变成了一场对抗。
The RA of two years added that while some conflicts "provided more multicultural acceptance and melding", there were also "jarring cultural confrontations".
成立了两年的研究协会补充说，虽然一些冲突“提供了更多的多元文化接纳和融合”，但也有“不和谐的文化对抗”。
China has also been angered by U.S.Naval operations inside its 320-kilometer economic zone, leading to some confrontations between American and Chinese ships.
VOA: standard.2009.10.27
They cite Russia's brief war with Georgia and Russia's confrontations with Ukraine over natural gas supplies last year as reasons to remain skeptical about the Kremlin's intentions.
VOA: standard.2009.09.17
In 2000,confrontations at the site of the al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall sparked a bloody, Palestinian uprising known as the Second Intifada, which lasted for several years.
VOA: standard.2009.10.05
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