Of course, confrontation with America must be avoided.

The King s intervention would put an unconditional stop to the street confrontations.

There won't be any confrontation with the world.

For the most part, the two men have avoided head on confrontation.

He will most likely opt for a tactical retreat in the confrontation.

In the ongoing showdown over currencies, who will blink first?

Still, the style of Russian politics has changed from cooperation to confrontation.

But getting to 2030 without a major confrontation will be a major achievement.

I cannot predict who will win this growing confrontation.

Russia s military is certainly not fit for a global confrontation with the West.

Indeed, all will be threatened by internal destabilization as a consequence of such a confrontation.

The focus on the Temple Mount has given the current confrontation an apocalyptic quality.

These oppositionists urged Facebook users to actively confront the authorities.

This is an interpretation of the country that is based on entrapment, conflict and hatred.

The Middle East is drifting towards a new great confrontation in 2008.

But the end of confrontation in Europe may be proving only temporary.

The success of the balance of terror presupposed a mixture of confrontation and dialogue between two rational actors.

Eighteen months of violent Israeli Palestinian confrontations have set new dynamics in motion.

SEOUL Last month, North and South Korea narrowly avoided a catastrophic military confrontation.

It is better not to dwell on what the Middle East might look like after this kind of confrontation.

This could set the stage for a violent confrontation between the Pakistani masses and Musharraf s regime.

Ahmadinejad stands for a policy of confrontation and partial isolation Moussavi stands for more openness.

At some point, the risk of an open confrontation between NATO and Russia could grow.

In Cuba, Obama has shown that transcending the politics of confrontation and sanctions requires diplomatic initiative.

When Wolfowitz was finally pushed out after a bruising battle, Bank staff were beside themselves with joy.

The compromises necessary for peace are likely to lead to a stark political confrontation in Israel as well.

But they must also continue to try to preempt confrontation with Russia on all fronts.

Moreover, he appears to believe that confrontations between the state and civil society are counterproductive.

Of course, given the political risks, governments should not wait for confrontation with pensioners.

By that time, it might be too late to stop a slide toward a wider confrontation.

For these analyses are hardly neutral, but unwittingly enter an ongoing confrontation.

After years of hostilities, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization have exchanged letters of mutual recognition.

The miners' strike was the biggest confrontation between the unions and the Thatcher government.

Is this lack of emotion about politics, this absence of confrontation between different projects, good or bad?

America s interests are now so closely intertwined with China that a policy to isolate or confront it is not feasible.

The conflict, and thus the danger of a military confrontation, will not disappear under a new US administration.

Indeed, the West has sought to animate that specter in its ongoing confrontation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Of course, from Ukraine's perspective, a one on one military confrontation with Russia is not a viable option.

As a result, without a clear agreement on borders, Area C will witness the most serious confrontations.

Santos may be less willing to avoid confrontation, if only because the personal antipathy between the two leaders is immense.

When chief executives with fixed terms of office lose political support, they cannot be removed through a no confidence vote, as in parliamentary systems.

In a democracy it would be almost impossible to secure sufficient public support for a military confrontation with another democracy.

Like North Korea, the Iranian government will not shy from a showdown over its nuclear program.

But, for Mourdock and his supporters, The time for being collegial is past it s time for confrontation.

After all, confrontations like this are not unusual in Latin America's rigid presidential systems.