The confrontation set the parameters in the era of multimillionaire players.
The confrontation set off a firestorm of emotions, as well as phone calls and e-mail messages to the Essex County executive, Joseph DiVincenzo. "It was quite a scene," said Michael Aron, a political correspondent for New Jersey Network, who was one of the soccer players.
It has been a David and Goliath confrontation set in motion by the audacious move by Gawker's technology arm, Gizmodo, to acquire a prototype of Apple's upcoming 4G iPhone and disclose its highly secret make up two months before its official launch.
Authorities claimed some protesters turned violent during the confrontation, setting fires, tossing Molotov cocktails and, in one instance, pulling out a gun and firing on officers.
The confrontation sets the stage for more bruising partisan battles just weeks after a 16-day government shutdown drove public approval numbers for Congress to record lows.
Since January 2010, agents have killed at least 15 people, including a 16-year-old, along the border with Mexico, sometimes during confrontations set off by rock-throwing and other assaults, other times under less clear circumstances.
You detect a certain sense of confrontation setting in by page two when Heylin confides: 'I sincerely hope that this volume does not come across as the petulant riposte of a spurned writer.' Not a chance, guv.
After upsetting the defending champion, Australia, in an epic confrontation that set a record for games played, 327, India still had the Soviet Union standing in the way of a trip to the final.
— The Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Cambridge police sergeant who arrested him last July missed opportunities to "ratchet down" an avoidable confrontation that set off a national debate on race, class and policing, according to a report released Wednesday by an independent panel.
Anonymous letters, like direct confrontations, can set in motion unpredictable changes.
In the first episode (plotted by series creators Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman, with a teleplay by Fuller and Akiva Goldsman), an investigation into a damaged "interstellar relay" quickly leads into a confrontation with the Klingon Empire — a confrontation that sets the stage for the rest of the season, and perhaps the rest of the series.
