11.   Police, who have increasingly blocked the disputed parades rather than confront the protesters, generally suffer the most injuries in the riots that often accompany these confrontations.

12.   Police with dogs had entered the office building housing the U.S. Embassy from a back door, and proceeded to the front to confront protesters.

13.   Protesters were confronted by police guarding government buildings but no serious clashes were reported.

14.   The troops have not confronted the protesters, said Han Dongfang, who runs a Hong Kong-based labor rights monitoring group.

15.   Turning onto a side street, the opposition protesters were confronted by six security guards from a seedy hotel who opened fire with pistols.

16.   To avoid confronting the protesters, Santa said he would contact the provincial authorities to deal with them.

17.   Turkish Cypriot newspapers reported all last week that thousands of the extremists would be in the north to confront the protesters.

18.   When an Italian paramilitary policeman confronted a protester trying to make it to the runway, demonstrators started throwing rocks and dirt and setting off fireworks, ANSA said.