More importantly, the police who confronted him, like police throughout the confrontations in Missouri, seem to be entirely committed to the logic of deterrence, while ignoring the costs of escalation.
Police were out in force to try to block the demonstrations, and there were sporadic confrontations near Kinshasa University.
Confrontations like Sheehan's are "a pretty typical situation that happens across the country these days", said Ron Honberg, director of policy and legal affairs at the National Alliance for Mental Illness (Nami), which filed a brief supporting her suit.
Al-Shabaab avoids most direct confrontations with conventional armies.
To put it another way, in America and Great Britain, the neoliberal turn depended on huge industrial confrontations.
Azerbaijan's defence ministry said 14 of its soldiers had been killed in multiple confrontations, which began on 30 July.
The Right Sector is a loose grouping of ultra-radical elements that led confrontations with riot police in Kiev, throwing molotov cocktails and wielding baseball bats.
Referring to wars and violent confrontations from Syria to Nigeria and the Philippines, Blair, writing in the Observer, argues that "there is one thing self-evidently in common: the acts of terrorism are perpetrated by people motivated by an abuse of religion.
His art was full of tricks and illusions, real and imagined confrontations.
Weeks of bitter confrontations with Democrats and moderate Republicans will have yielded no discernible gains for conservatives – except, perhaps, for the display of power that have proven they can still exert over the embattled speaker of the House.
The Met units sent to the picket lines are described as having been "valued in violent confrontations" but more likely to increase tensions the rest of the time.
