Martin shrugged off the quick meeting with Scott and his small confrontation with Van Horn.
Similar small confrontations have taken place at other Ukrainian bases around Crimea, though shooting has been rare and there has so far been no bloodshed.
The relatively small number of demonstrators who did turn out were so cowed by the violence of the recent crackdown that they took steps to avoid even the smallest confrontation, gathering in only one place or moving in circles on a few blocks to avoid approaching army barricades.
Police officers and FBI agents came armed with heavy weapons and a small tank; the resulting confrontation left an officer dead.
The bromocriptine caused a small improvement in his confrontation naming (5 10%) with a more marked improvement of the fluency of his spontaneous speech, and pauses between utterances were reduced by 24% (Albert, Bachman, Morgan, & Helm-Estabrooks, 1988).
Deaths from friendly fire encounters — representing a small fraction of such confrontations — can tear at police officers and departments.
"They have been playing a game all week to see who will stay and who will go," Verschatse said of the crows, comparing the confrontation to "a small Vietnam".
In Rio, however, a confrontation between a small masked group — which ignored the appeals of march organizers to refrain from violence — and the police led to the use of tear gas and an abrupt end to what had been a peaceful afternoon demonstration.
And he is widely considered to be the impetus for the new six-nation confrontation with Qatar, a small country on a peninsula that juts off the Saudi coast.
There was also a small group who caused a dramatic confrontation when they painted slogans such as "Down with penis envy" over Ruskin and beyond.
