The phrase "a confrontation less" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an attempt to convey a reduction in confrontations, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "We need to find a way to have a confrontation less often in our meetings."
Alternatives: "fewer confrontations" or "less frequent confrontations".
Personally inclined to find his way out of the face-to-face confrontation – he is, after all, a career politician loath to shut down the government — Boehner has been forced into a confrontation, with less and less room for negotiation with his own party's warring flanks and with Democrats.
The government order raised the specter of another violent confrontation, less than a week after Egypt's security forces opened fire on protesters outside one of the sit-ins, killing at least 80 people.
The few details that have emerged from the fatal confrontation less than a mile from Seton Hall University in South Orange — that Ms. Hightower resisted as she was attacked with a knife that pierced her forearms, and that the three were slain execution-style — have been particularly wrenching.
Soon after, the alleged driver of the van was arrested by a lone police officer in a confrontation lasting less than a minute and caught on video by bystanders.
And though the sheer scale of US deployment appears to be making immediate military confrontation less probable, the long-term prospects look increasingly murky: G.I.s.
The idea is that economic cooperation makes military confrontation less likely.
We are witnessing another test of an old theory best formulated by an axiom attributed to the 19th-century French thinker Frederic Bastiat: "If goods don't cross borders, armies will". The idea is that economic cooperation makes military confrontation less likely.
The grainy video appears to show a tall woman grabbing Kim from behind in a confrontation that lasts less than three seconds.
In time, though, the United States and North Korea's neighbors — China, Japan, South Korea and Russia — remind one another that they have nothing to gain from a prolonged confrontation, much less a war.
That won't solve the territorial disputes, but it should make confrontations less likely.
