The Powells biked the entire way, John Powell said, except for El Salvador and Nicaragua, which they flew over because they did not want to have to confront hostilities in either country.
The result is an exercise in confronting hostility and prejudice.
Companies from other countries, notably China, are also expanding rapidly in Latin America and occasionally confronting hostility.
Its leaders had to confront the hostility of voters, and at year's end much still had to be decided about how to make the euro work better.
Haiti inherited the wounds of racial and class enmity and confronted the hostility of slave-holding powers, including the United States.
And the Iranian people believed that their dignity had been compromised, that the openness of our administration had been confronted with hostility and excessive demands.
Unless you count throwaway remarks, like her description of kissing the pipe-smoking Bing Crosby in "The Road to Hong Kong" (like "kissing an ashtray"), or confronting the hostility of Bette Davis on the set of "The Virgin Queen," there is no score settling.
For both Hesiod and Weinberg, confronting the hostility of the universe is a test that, in Weinberg's words, "lifts human life a little above the level of farce".
In this context, the "myth" of Latrun derived from the frustrations and the death of the new immigrants and was catalysed by their integration in a society where "the survivor of Shoah carried the new collective memory, immigrant refugees who had troubled pasts, and then were confronted with hostility and threat and still took their place with their blood and taking part in the war".
