Today's meaning of bipolar is "characterized by two-power confrontation, as in the cold war".
Some here and in the region see China's growth as a threat, entertaining visions of a cold-war-style rivalry or great-power confrontation.
Not in the world we have now, containing as it does a handful of major nuclear-armed powers among whom there is always the possibility for major-power confrontation to escalate into nuclear war.
Mr. Spitzer cast himself, self-consciously, as the alpha male, with a belief in the clarifying power of confrontation.
If he comes to power, a confrontation with Brussels, which takes the opposite view, would surely follow.The EU and IMF say they will turn off the tap if political instability continues.
Mr. Klein also edited several volumes on social and urban issues, including "The Empire City" (Rinehart, 1955), the unusually punctuated "Natural Enemies??? Youth and the Clash of Generations" (Lippincott, 1970) and "Dissent, Power and Confrontation" (McGraw Hill, 1972).
But his concern really is great power strategic confrontation and the Middle East is a more likely place for that than the East Asian littoral.
Power, victimization and confrontation through the metaphor of a tower.
For Philip's prime minister, the duke of Lerma, Rubens painted his first major equestrian portrait (1603), which took the Venetian tradition of Titian and Tintoretto a giant step forward in the conveyance of physical power and psychological confrontation.
There is a sense that the West has been on a seesaw for most of the 18 years Mr Lukashenka has been in power, veering from confrontation to engagement and back again.
