We are facing an incredible simplification, a gross polarisation: apparently a clash of civilisations, a confrontation between principles, with defenders, in one corner, of inalienable freedom of speech and, in the other, of the inviolable sacred sphere.
A confrontation of some sort seemed inevitable.
It's a confrontation of truth".
Theirs is a confrontation of beliefs and values.
The groundwork was laid for a confrontation of unprecedented proportions.
A simple statement of principles?
At a time of particular fragility, HCPs and ADs make tangible a confrontation with the idea of our own end.
And from then there would be the confrontation of altering the principles and selling out to which the first mujahideen [fighters] did not show deference in Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and elsewhere.
It is better and safer to walk away from a confrontation than to be victim of a confrontation.
Power is 'less a confrontation between two adversaries' than a 'question of "government"'.
As a matter of principle.
