Danny Chivers, a defendant in the collapsed second trial, said the Met officer was confronted last year by environmental campaigners who had become suspicious.
Michael R. Bloomberg, the Republican businessman running for mayor, was confronted yesterday with allegations of sexism, racism and homophobia based on revelations about a birthday present he received 11 years ago.
Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, was confronted yesterday by discontented professors who gathered more than 100 faculty signatures for a document criticizing his leadership.
Mr. Friedman was confronted this month with the findings of the investigation by the company's board, which had formed a special committee and hired the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges to conduct the inquiry.
A coroner ruled on Friday that Brenda Leyland, who was confronted last year by a Sky News TV crew and who killed herself some days later, had intended to take her own life.
3. The city of Sacramento was confronted this week with a videotape that appeared to show police officers trying to run over a mentally ill homeless man.
Across the continent from the vote-counting imbroglio in Florida that will determine the winner of the presidency, Washington state officials were confronted today with another remarkably close contest whose outcome may well determine whether Democrats can lay claim to exactly half the seats in the United States Senate.
Whatever the ideology and objective in the understanding of integration, states are confronted today with the transnational actions of activists who try to bypass states in order to reach a global perspective of their identification and action.
The problems being confronted today started much earlier and we all have some responsibility in creating this situation by our allowing these kinds of actions to continue on without the people involved in them being penalized.
Protesters said they were angered after being confronted early Saturday by pro-government demonstrators, and clashes ensued.
