At the same time, white officials looked for something more creative than the sweeping 8 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew, which on Thursday night and into this morning substituted eerie scenes of urban emptiness for the hit-and-run confrontations of earlier this week, when protesting youths vandalized stores and the police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Once the police understood this, the week became a series of running confrontations, with clumps of rioters pinballing around Manhattan's grid, colliding with tight units of police officers, scattering and re-forming.
On Wednesday, in a chaotic day of huge demonstrations, shooting, teargas and running confrontations between protesters and the military, many people were reported injured and half a dozen were reported to have been killed, most of them by gunshots.
The typical way of working with people is that you don't share this kind of information and you run into confrontations over time to understand their personalities.
Firstly, McGuigan had never run from confrontation in a boxing ring in his life.
In the long run a confrontation may have been inevitable, but it was hastened by a gradual deterioration of the position of the Poles.
Bridget Kendall: This is an especially worrying part of this speech, reflecting Mr Putin's belief that Ukraine is only the latest in a long running simmering confrontation between Russia and the West which is now out in the open - and which he sees is the result of the West refusing to treat Russia as an equal partner and repeatedly acting with double standards.
Tempers are running short and confrontations with guards more frequent.
To top it off, as Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima pointed out recently, the group is more motivated and better armed than the country's underpaid soldiers — explaining reports of soldiers simply running away during confrontations with Boko Haram.
I spent a lot of time on my toes, running away from confrontations – until my very last day when a lad called Marvin had a go at me and the worm turned.
The people are drawn more crudely, and their confrontations sometimes run to standard melodrama.
