But the sparks and harsh confrontation that characterized the hearings on Cambodia last year were absent.

In Borstal the maintenance of the 'tough' style calls for a different presentational technique, a sustained, harsh, abrasive and unyielding confrontation.

Her education included not only formal schooling at a private girls' school, but harsh confrontation with devastation and hardship.

Moreover, harsh confrontations over religion are anathema in a country born from almost a century of religious war between Catholics and Protestants.

Challenging people on their whiteness can lead to harsh confrontations, even blows.

But that is a different thing from letting the aircraft incident become a harsh confrontation between two great powers.

Her job as a fifth grade teacher at St. Columbanus School here is in peril and she is entangled in a harsh confrontation with the school director and the Archdiocese of New York.

The result was a sequence of harsh, dirty military confrontations.

These conflicting feelings led him to another harsh confrontation with Kouichi, after which the two friends were reconciled and stood side by side in the following events.

And who would have imagined that the United States and the Soviet Union, after their harsh confrontation over the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, would stand allied against a common adversary in the Middle East?