A heated confrontation developed during which "security was called," a senior embassy employee said in an e-mail.
With time, areas exposed to violence became better known as patterns of military confrontation developed.
The lightning-rod issue has been the AIDS epidemic, and the resulting confrontation between developing nations and the pharmaceutical industry.
After exerting unusual pressure a political confrontation that developed into battles in the streets of Tehran they managed to secure the mayor's freedom after 12 days.
Pascal Lamy, the top trade minister for Europe, said it would be an "error" to conclude that a new confrontation was developing between rich and poor nations.
The confrontation never developed as Mohaymen just couldn't keep up with the presumptive favorite for Saturday's Kentucky Derby.
The first is that the American military presence in the Persian Gulf has not yet reached the dimensions that would be needed if a military confrontation with Iraq develops.
A convincing day-in-the-life develops: confrontations with a fly swat, a dizzying encircling of a lightbulb, a close encounter with an iced cake.
From that confrontation, a friendship quickly develops (as Carly says, "We've been played by the same man").
Quite to the contrary, as in World War I, the Balkan states showed great reluctance to become involved in the developing confrontation between the European powers.
