1.   There were confrontations between the art students and the athletes.

2.   Direct confrontation was not his way.

3.   The Ford driver gave nothing away and for a moment it looked as if there would be a confrontation with a juggernaut coming from London.

4.   She had waited all day for Naylor to send for her -- by the sound of it, the confrontation was to be on her property, not his.

5.   Yet confrontation is difficult when discrimination is invariably subtle and discreet.

6.   And a last-act confrontation is as superfluous as it is over the top.

7.   And it seems to indicate, diplomats said, a depth of feeling within the governing party that confrontation could be a fatal mistake.

8.   And perhaps the most physical, yet acrobatic, confrontation will be between the Pro Bowlers Carnell Lake and Michael Irvin.

9.   As both sides depict it, the confrontation is not just about money.

10.   Audiences know that this confrontation will be as short and violent as the lives of the foot soldiers who followed both men.