If they do that, they will get cooperation; if they don't, we risk confrontation".
With no one wanting to risk confrontation with a nuclear power, especially one that seemed to have a higher risk tolerance than the U.S. or Europe, Putin was able to secure an outsized freedom to maneuver — in Ukraine, Syria, and beyond.
Deepening gaps in the service's workforce are so serious that bosses may have to rip up longstanding national pay agreements in order to attract key staff, risking confrontation with the health unions, according to the King's Fund thinktank.
To enter a gallery specializing in contemporary art is to risk confrontation with a mysterious painting, sculpture, installation, photograph or video that can make the uninitiated feel clumsily insecure.
The United States faces a sensitive task over the next few months, risking confrontation if it backs a European candidate, leaving room for countries with developing economies to come up with a credible candidate of their own.
In 1995, she transferred to Thames Valley police, where she headed operations in Oxford and favoured pragmatism over heavy-handed policing - on one occasion withdrawing officers from a Reclaim the Streets demon- stration, rather than risk confrontation and injuries to members of the public.
"The secretary made clear that if such reports were accurate, these actions could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk confrontation with the [anti-Islamic State] coalition operating in Syria," the State Department said on Saturday.
A US State Department spokesperson said: "The secretary made clear that if such reports were accurate, these actions could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk confrontation with the anti-ISIL coalition operating in Syria".
And there is no consensus about how best to react: whereas LDP hawks want to deal with territorial disputes by sending drilling ships and risking confrontation, plenty of politicians would still prefer a quieter response.What seems to be happening, though, is that in response to Chinese pressure Japan's position is hardening.
But writing in popular tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, Andrey Baranov suggests that instead of risking confrontation over Russia, Athens "may trade its loyalty to Brussels for the write-off of part of its foreign debt".
