At the height of the confrontation, protest leaders surrounded the stage where they presided with barbed wire to block dissenting students from storming it.
For instance, phrases like "each and every," "added bonus," "direct confrontation," "protest against," and "written down" are all redundant, as they repeat the meaning.
Still, in a society that values conformity and order, most Japanese remain deeply averse to confrontation and protest, and there is nothing approaching what could be called a mass movement.
When Wei was present at some sort of confrontation or protest by local villages against municipal authorities when more than 50 municipal inspectors turned on him, attacking him for five minutes.
"I wish we didn't have to be angry all the time," Brower once said, "but someone has to get angry". He was angry not only at polluters and despoilers but also at other environmentalists who disparaged confrontation and protest.
Police officials on Wednesday again rejected claims that their own intelligence agents were inciting confrontation at protests, with some demonstrators contending that this was a strategy for cracking down on street dissent.
The Syrian government has sought to portray the uprising as an armed insurrection by Islamist extremists and "gangs," and though it is clear that there have been instances of armed confrontation, the protests, for the most part, have been peaceful.
"We have been witnessing more and more physical confrontation during protests and I believe that more young people are willing to go to jail or even to confront the police and the government with their own bodies," he said.
However, they may be surprised to find that national dignity is not so much served by confrontation and protests at rallies but by pragmatically building alliances, searching for compromises, and making credible commitments". In a tweet European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis says the agreement of all 19 eurozone countries is needed for any new Greek rescue deal.
After violent confrontations, the protests wound down.
More than 1,000 pro-Morsi supporters and dozens of security officials have died during confrontations at protests since Morsi's 3 July overthrow.
