Power struggles in China have a habit of going hand-in-hand with street protests (the Tiananmen Square unrest in 1989 broke out amid fierce confrontation at the top).
Mr. Noone seems to be under the impression that the audience will nod off if each and every scene doesn't boil to a moment of fierce confrontation.
To Neil Lennon, an Old Firm game can still prompt vivid recollections of what it is to play in this fixture, to be at the heart of what is often nothing more than a fierce confrontation.
Moreover, Lebanon is a battleground for a fierce confrontation between the US and its regional allies, on the one hand, and Iran-Syria and their local friends, on the other.
Depardieu also starred in Pialat's last film, "Le Garçu," in which the director depicts himself (albeit played by Depardieu as a character named Gérard) as father and as son, a fierce confrontation with old and new worlds.
Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York and Mitt Romney of Massachusetts tangled over taxes and government spending yesterday as the Republican presidential candidates debated in Michigan, highlighting the way in which their increasingly fierce confrontation is starting to dominate the race for their party's nomination.
The relatively fierce confrontation served both the settlers and the government, creating heroes among the settlers and allowing the government to show to the world that removing the nearly 80,000 settlers who live beyond the separation barrier would not be an easy task.
Since the early days of the rebellion, the square has been the center of a fierce confrontation with the authoritarian state.
Cimino catches emotion in motion, as in the whirling euphoria of a roller-skate dance and the deadly vortex of an encircling cavalry charge, yet these turbulent delights are pierced by arresting points of stillness and eloquent silences, which pack as much dramatic impact in a knowing exchange of glances across a throbbing crowd as in fierce intimate confrontations.
