Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
We've dealt with punched-in walls, doors, physical confrontations, threats by the hands of our own children.
But they don't like confrontation or threats to everyone getting along together".Mr Chávez's authoritarianism is carefully calibrated.
The show of respect for the host nation's sovereignty set the stage for a visit that aims to reset neighbourly ties that have long been marked by confrontation and threats.
We must strive to combine the two and thereby forestall any confrontation and threat.
And as the venomous confrontations and threats between Abner and Lonzo build to a conflagration, you see every side of the story.
A bloody melee among worshipers at a Sikh temple in Queens over the weekend was only the most public and violent episode in a roiling power struggle marked by frequent confrontations, death threats and a lawsuit, members of New York's Sikh community said on Tuesday.
What the Twitter response also shows, though, is that a list of headlines is inadequate for fully grasping the everyday confrontations — or threat of such — that many New Yorkers face.
Are there not more mature, and productive, ways for countries to negotiate and have their needs met without threats, confrontation or, when all else fails, stand offs?
And he talks about people learning to become gardeners instead of architects, of embracing Eastern ideas of indirection instead of Western patterns of confrontation, of seeing "threats as systems, not objects".
