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Many in the church had hoped to avoid a confrontation on homosexuality, one of the most contentious issues facing the church since the Methodist split over slavery in 1844.

The episode is the latest in which the administration has ducked a confrontation on an issue that risks alienating one constituent group or another as Mr. Obama approaches an election year.

The newspaper added that two of his senior Liberal Democrat colleagues had a confrontation on the morning of the Statement.

Russia's likely opposition, as well as China's, sets up a confrontation on the Security Council, where both hold permanent seats.

But in last week's episode, the two had a bit of a confrontation on the daytime talk show "The View".

Drawing on early accounts of the crisis, he describes a confrontation on Oct. 24, 1962, between American destroyers and Soviet ships carrying nuclear missiles to Cuba.

Mr. Shafik was forced to resign a month later after a confrontation on a talk show, and since then such blowups have become a trademark.

The above video, posted by USLaw.com, captures a confrontation on Saturday between the police and several protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Mr. Busch was killed when the four officers fired a total of 12 shots after a frenzied confrontation on a Borough Park sidewalk on Aug. 30, 1999.

Add in some hilarious dialogue and solid performers and you've got a lot of fun, right down to a romantic confrontation on a roller coaster, also amusingly staged.

The centerpiece of Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's prize-winning 2001 novel is a long confrontation, on a lifeboat, between the tiger and a teen-age Indian boy named Pi (Suraj Sharma), which turns into a wary cohabitation.