Connivance of any narrow-minded nationalist impulses or confrontation can only result in new disasters.
Protest leaders, however, were more cautious, and repeatedly rerouted the march at the last moment to avoid confrontations, turning down narrow lanes where residents in upper stories sprayed them with water — it was not always clear whether the gesture was in support or in contempt.
Moreover, an encounter with security like this may make you wary and cause you to confine your behaviour to a narrow range so as to avoid confrontation.
"The Hurt Locker" narrows the war to the existential confrontation of man and deadly threat.
Not to ignore or re-write an inconvenient past, but to recover a sense of valour that goes well beyond narrow self-preservation - which is precisely what his confrontation with an unjust Emperor was about.
Justice Thomas proposed adopting "a reading of the confrontation clause that respects its historically limited application to a narrow class of statements bearing indicia of solemnity".
Some of the weaknesses in the president's performance, advisers said, were the result of a strategy of not turning off the narrow slice of swing voters, who are often repelled by personal confrontations.
Taiwan's legislature took a half-step back from a confrontation with China, passing a bill to allow national referendums, but only under narrow circumstances.
In a bid to avoid a confrontation with about 300 placard-waving, slogan-shouting protesters who gathered in the narrow streets around the union building, the two men were smuggled in hours before the debate.
Netanyahu is thought to want to form a broad coalition that includes Kadima, rather than relying on a narrow majority of rightwing parties that would oppose any peace moves with the Palestinians and bring confrontation with Washington.
