Although the northern ceasefire generally holds, confrontations between government forces and southern separatists have grown increasingly violent.
In Crawford v. Washington (2004), the Supreme Court held that the Confrontation Clause bars the "admission of testimonial statements of a witness who did not appear at trial" unless pursuant to one of the "exceptions established at the time of the founding".
In this fairly short span, he managed to provoke two major international crises; survive a coup (a second toppled him); order two disastrous economic overhauls; and hold erratic confrontations with nearly everyone in sight — with the Chinese leadership, with Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, with the neo-Stalinists in his Presidium and the Russian intellectuals in his midst.
"Ashes to Ashes" ended with one, revealed beyond the walls of the living room that held the play's confrontation between husband and wife.
Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush dropped the pleasantries of their previous debate last night and held their most spirited confrontation to date while outlining their disagreements over tax cuts, health care, schools, campaign finance and other subjects.
The network also proves helpful in Pakistan's badlands, patching up confrontations between long-haired hotheads and restraining a bewildering mixture of jihadist groups that might otherwise target the state.The Americans thus held back from outright confrontation over the Haqqanis, for fear of putting further strains on troubled relations with Pakistan.
Both sides held fast in a confrontation that continued to escalate by the day as the king, a Sunni, showed his increasing willingness to use lethal force to preserve his absolute authority, and the opposition, mostly from the majority Shiite community, showed that it was increasingly galvanized by that use of force.
Ukrainian and Russian troops have held back from violent confrontations, with Kiev anxious to avoid giving Moscow a reason for overrunning its bases in Crimea.
When I have held jobs, I faced confrontations like a restaurant manager telling me she was cutting back my shifts because "you can't keep up with the other waitstaff".
The Caucasus holds risks of confrontation that could affect American and European interests, and it requires regular and high-level attention.
