Who would win? "I don't know," Anderson said, pointing out that the Bears, who revolutionized pro offenses with the T formation, would confront defenses they never saw — but we guessed quarterback Sid Luckman would figure them out in a quarter or so.
In one meeting, he wrote afterward in a cable, he confronted the defense minister about specific officers suspected of abuse.
Confronting this defense, the court earnestly evaluated whether "the commercial is funny".
With LaDainian Tomlinson doubtful with a torn groin tendon and Philip Rivers confronting a defense that likes to sack, strip the ball and intercept, much of the offense could fall to Sproles.
That approach -- trying to win sympathy while promising that a fuller story will explain events many Americans find unpalatable -- has been the mark of Mr. Brosnahan's legal and public relations strategy for one of the most difficult cases to confront a defense lawyer in years.
An equally daunting challenge confronts the defense.
In 2008, Mexico initiated a series of reforms to the criminal justice system, switching from an inquisitorial model — in which the accused is presumed to be guilty, and proceedings happen largely behind closed doors — to a US-style adversarial system, where the prosecution confronts the defense in an oral trial setting.
It was here in the Pamirs where Russia's territorial expansion confronted Britain's defense of India during the 19th-century geopolitical rivalry known as the Great Game.
In the early years of the Iraq war, one brave soldier confronted the visiting defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to ask why troops were salvaging scrap metal out of junkyards to bolt onto soft-skinned Humvees as "hillbilly armor".
"The horrors she confronts, the defenses she mounts, the things she learns are treated with a painful but bracing clarity".
