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He deliberately kept on provoking a confrontation.
I don't like confrontation.
Some journalists claim that Russia and the U.S. are in confrontation as competitors in the battle for influence on the development of Ukraine.
He avoids confrontation as much as he can.
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Mr. Attorney. For the convenience of the investigation of the Ribonard case and to avoid confrontation and also to protect the life of the prisoner extradited from Louvain, it is desirable he is not seen by anyone.
A confrontation between us and the New Pit became inevitable.
His wounds testify to a confrontation with something.
Because I thought he wasn't ready yet for the decisive confrontation with himself.
Thus, although both telepathists in our hypothetical confrontation are male, they have made an erotic morphological communication which is essentially heterosexual, or male-female.
It's a confrontation of some sort.
The confrontation will give him a physical shock.
Well, the whole point, a basic point of any form of guerilla confrontation is that the enemy is invisible, things happen.
Here in Hyde Park. the final confrontation between Lawrence Van Helsing. and his arch enemy, the demon vampire Dracula.
We can't risk a straightforward confrontation.
My studies and research on the subject and my own confrontation with an arch-vampire I am not leaving with any doubt the validity this strange story.
I've just had a face to face confrontation with a rather nasty root.
What a confrontation.
Hackett is clearly forcing a confrontation.
Jorge Cabal is an old revolutionary, he has some scruples but all Siomney wants is a confrontation.
Action, confrontation.
There will be a confrontation; there's no way to avoid it.
And you and Billy move on to the next confrontation. Yeah.
Only public exposure of the treaty before the missiles are installed will avert a confrontation that could lead to war.
But the moment hasn't arrived Neither here nor anywhere to provoke a confrontation!
When it comes to confrontation with white people. the black male was always kind of afraid to face the man.
I remember there could be a major confrontation going on, just a hundred yards away there'd be a couple sitting on the grass like nothing in the world was wrong.
It's not a visit, it's a confrontation.
I had a confrontation with a german officer.
He expected that he will arrange a confrontation with the arrested comrades, That he will be judged, Go to jail.
His wounds testify to an apparent confrontation with something.
This should have been done as confrontation, but no procedural rules were respected.
And then. we'll have to prepare a heads-on confrontation.
The spectacle is then the epic poem of this confrontation. that the fall of no Troy could conclude.
It's not a visit, but rather a confrontation.
I understand the differences, but the confrontation should be civilized. Okay, confront civil.
The newscast will continue, just finished the constructive. confrontation of opinions between journalists and officials.
Madame Arlena decided to avoid a confrontation and was about to leave the beach when she noticed a small grotto at the base of the cliff.
A confrontation with your mother.
News and current affairs
With the US and Israel unwilling to accept containment of a nuclear Iran by deterrence, a military confrontation in 2013 would lead to a massive oil price spike and global recession.
War implies armies and command structures that can be recognized, if not clearly known; in any case, war entails a military confrontation with an identifiable adversary.
Because political intentions, not technical capabilities matter, NMD creates problems now: it pushes Russia into confrontation, heightens Chinese nervousness, and underpins a European sense of estrangement from the US.
The three years (1996-9) of Benjamin Netanyahu's government were characterized by the politics of confrontation and animosity in all spheres of political life.
When he became Prime Minister in elections six months after the assassination of General Rabin, Mr. Netanyahu continued in this strategy of exclusion and confrontation.
When he became the leader of the Labor party less than three years ago, he also developed a new style of politics: instead of confrontation, dialogue; instead of exclusion, the politics of inclusion.
This historic discovery ended up in a confrontation at a parking lot in Baghdad.
With one-third of the Palestinians' Hamas-led government now under arrest by Israel, the escalation in Israeli-Palestinian relations has moved beyond military confrontation.
He shied away from the inevitable confrontation with critics - among whom were friends and colleagues.
The compromises necessary for peace are likely to lead to a stark political confrontation in Israel as well.
Depending on the outcome of the ongoing negotiations between SCAF and Morsi, the size of protests in Tahrir Square and elsewhere, and the degree of pressure from the international community, a deadly confrontation cannot be ruled out.
Tension, and at times open confrontation, between a modernizing elite and ordinary people regarding the nature, function, and design of the state undermined the very capacity to govern.
Indeed, the confrontation with the Iranians in Iraq is visibly intensifying, and it may be gathering strength elsewhere as well.
In both countries, ongoing Presidential - Parliamentary feuding led to utter political stalemate for years, and even to violent confrontation in Russia in October 1993.
But coming as it does only one month after the alarming Russian-Georgian confrontation, it may offer real hope that tensions in the volatile Caucasus region can be eased.
A Cold War-style confrontation and containment policy from the West will be met with strong resistance from the Chinese, whose global leverage, particularly in finance, cannot be ignored.
The TPP is also a political response to China's new aggressiveness, built therefore in a spirit of confrontation and containment, not of cooperation.
It simply sought to avoid confrontation with the unions.
The complexities of the threats to Israel are such that a possible confrontation with Hamas in Gaza might trigger a flare-up with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The US-China relationship itself is likely to remain uneasy, but overt competition or confrontation suits neither side.
It allows him to trumpet Thailand's strategic objectives and the region's major issues, sometimes in confrontation with the interests and the demands of the West.
After all, while his policy of confrontation has generated high levels of violence, tolerance of the drug cartels corrupted state institutions, sowing the ground for the problem in the first place.
After a confrontation between the two, the wealthy wife drove her BMW into the growing crowd of spectators on the roadside, killing the peasant woman and injuring 12 others.
The identity of Bolivia's indigenous people, who were historically excluded from political, social, and economic life, is beginning to be seen as a synonym for confrontation, violence, and ethnic aggressiveness.
The United States' staunchest ally since 2001, Great Britain, has already gone down this path, divorcing itself from its servile alliance with a Bush administration that focused on war and confrontation.
On the other hand, the missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, and the prospect of NATO accession for Georgia and Ukraine, assume confrontation where this was not at all necessary.
Indeed, parallel to the Syrian drama, the rhetoric in the confrontation between Israel and Iran over the program has become dramatically harsher.
Everyone involved could have lived with this compromise; it was the political confrontation that preceded it that made agreement difficult.
Indeed, the European confrontation Merkel initiated (shame on you if you see a connection with the upcoming German elections) has changed the EU forever.
Such political goodwill is essential for regional stability, particularly given the deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations following last year's confrontation over the arrest of a Chinese fisherman by Japan's coast guard.