A November report by a British thinktank noted a rise in close military encounters between Russia and the west this year, including "violations of national airspace, emergency scrambles, narrowly avoided mid-air collisions, close encounters at sea, simulated attack runs and other dangerous actions happening on a regular basis over a very wide geographical area".
Manhattan's compact geography, points out Pfahler, means many artistic projects begin with chance encounters.
We were in the Wigmore Hall, halfway through an epic weekend of music, film, poetry and artwork from Terezín organised by the great London-based chamber music group the Nash Ensemble; an event previewed in this newspaper that has since spawned many adventures and encounters.
Kasparov had praise, however, for his opponent – who was seen during their encounters in the early 1980s as the face of Soviet communism.
He travelled with the young hooligans, observed their encounters at close quarters and, in Rules of Disorder (1978), wrote the first detailed report of their rituals and battles.
Viggo stumbles and sweats through the unforgiving landscape and a series of surreal encounters.
Some women the bus encounters don't regard what they are talking about as "politics" at all.
Rush Limbaugh – if not the de facto leader of the Republican party, then surely the clearest expression of its "id" – called her a prostitute and demanded that she post video of her sexual encounters on the internet.
In the commercial, a housewife encounters the product in a grocery store aisle and ponders whether to add it to her trolley.
AIJAC head Mark Leibler didn't realise or care during his ABC TV Lateline interview last week that boasting about such encounters, when most of his meetings with prime ministers and senior ministers aren't on the public record, reinforces the public perception that they too often operate in the dark, without accountability.
The former international criminal court judge said her encounters with serious human rights abuses, which included serving on the Rwanda tribunal, did not make her take online privacy less seriously.
