But that is a different thing from letting the aircraft incident become a harsh confrontation between two great powers.
The Congressional hearing was greeted with trepidation among Toyota dealers and employees, who lobbied Congress to go easy on a "friendly" competing economic power, fearing a cultural clash for Japanese businessmen unused to such harsh confrontation.
Perhaps only privilege requires the harsh confrontation with a countervailing reality we call disillusionment.
Still, I would not wish a harsh political confrontation on my country, and even less a virtual civil war.
Playwright Jon Robin Baitz has set his drama in Palm Springs; the desert light is harsh and the confrontations are smoothly drawn, the insights brilliantly revealed.
By issuing their declaration 72 hours after the peace negotiators met in San Sebastián, the ETA commanders appeared to have found a face-saving formula for acknowledging the harsh realities confronting them if they sought to continue their armed confrontation.
"We are concerned that there are elements in the P.A. that seem to refuse to jettison the harsh language of confrontation, and try to exploit different incidents to stir up trouble," Mr. Regev said in an interview.
With the arrival of the Europeans both the Ciboney and the Taino populations were drastically reduced within a few generations, a consequence of the harsh slavery conditions, confrontation with settlers, starvation, and infectious diseases.
Moreover, reporting the errors of no adverse outcomes depended on no harsh, threatening, and aggressive confrontation of the authorities.
Alina's unexpected arrival at the grim convent where her friend has been taken sets up a poisonous confrontation with the harsh, intransigent local priest (Valeriu Andriuta).
