"The time for confrontation between Socialists", declared a beaming Mr Hollande, "is over".This is the first time the party has produced a common programme since 1990, back in the days of François Mitterrand.
By that time, violent confrontations between the Mexican military and the EZLN had abated, but tensions between Zapatista communities and the state and federal authorities continued to exist.
The vacuum has been filled by social media, which has displayed in real time street confrontations between police and demonstrators, documenting the fraught interactions in images, videos and short dispatches.
22 October I took this picture at a dangerous time in the confrontation between Palestinians and the Israeli army in Gaza City.
"Even during the cold war, during the time of tough confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we have always avoided direct clashes between our civilians, let alone our servicemen," Mr. Putin said.
For that matter, maybe now is the time for a confrontation between this benighted era and the golden age: with antique voices lifted from RCA's library of early 20th-century recordings, Three Tenors configurations might include Caruso, Martinelli, Bjoerling, Gigli, Melchoir -- the sky's the limit!
The decision came just in time: after weeks of confrontation between law enforcement and protesters, tensions had been expected to rise on Monday, when two thousand military veterans were to join the demonstrations, and when a mandatory evacuation order, issued by Governor Jack Dalrymple, was to take effect.
I think you've got to go deep into the Cold War to remember a time when there was so much confrontation between the United States and Russia.
But the confrontation in the south raised the specter for the first time in months of a direct confrontation between Ukraine's forces and those of its giant neighbor.
In one of the report's three scenarios, even the surprise use of a nuclear weapon for the first time since August 9 , 1945-- in a 2028 confrontation between India and Pakistan -- is relieved of most of its potential punch.
