Police, private confrontation and other avenues for recourse failed them, which is why they sought safety and accountability in numbers.
During a private confrontation, a drunken Chuck punches a window after he finds out Prince Louis has proposed to Blair, which cuts Blair's face as it shatters.
McCullough claims that Adams's "outbursts of temper" occurred only in "private confrontations" and plays down or explains away instances of extreme public behavior (his strange insistence that Washington be called "His Majesty the President," his predawn flight from Washington on Jefferson's inaugural day).
The local sheriff's office has admitted to firing bean bags and deploying pepper spray, and during one high-profile confrontation private guards for the pipeline allegedly allowed dogs to attack activists.
But this leads to unintentionally comical scenes, time after time — people singing at each other in tournaments, in public processions, in private, even in confrontation: when Aza is arrested and accused of being a traitorous ogre, she responds thus: "I sang, flooding the room again, 'I am loyal to Ayortha-a-a-a-a Ayortha-a-a-a-a Ayortha-a-a-a-a Ayortha-a-a-a-a Ayortha-a-a-a-a
By fusing his academic training with a precocious natural ability to abstract and invent, Galeas creates images that suggest private rituals of confrontation, transformation and redemption.
After several private and public confrontations with the president, Dr. West left for Princeton in April, not long after another colleague, K. Anthony Appiah, made the same move.
Yet questions about cultural difference are worth asking, for a significant part of the problem lies in the confrontation between private traditional beliefs and public life, where the dorm room proves to be a strangely private sphere in the resolutely public, liberal environment of the university.
Though he spoke his mind in private, Sheikh Bin Baz consistently shunned confrontation.
A private captured in the confrontation, Jessica D. Lynch, was later rescued, and five others taken prisoner were found alive north of Baghdad on Sunday.
In a day of public denunciations and private efforts to ease the confrontation, the White House sought to orchestrate an international warning that North Korea risked even greater isolation from the world.
