It was taken during the Summit Series against Canada, a historic confrontation that widened hockey's horizons.

The opponent will be the ascendant team from the United States, a country where many citizens are barely aware of the historic confrontation about to culminate in what what some still regard as a foreign sport.

His vaguely worded pledge to step down was too vague for most people, and the historic confrontation between Indonesia's people and President seems likely to continue.

Thus, Burden was invited to witness an historic confrontation.

In 2000, when Mr. Giuliani was running for the Senate, the political world was anticipating a historic confrontation between him and the Democratic nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Mr. Garber has sought to cast the suit as a historic and decisive confrontation in which the courts would clarify the sometimes blurry lines of authority between the branches of government.

Ms. Hill's own essay, however, is required reading for those interested in this historic confrontation; she relates cogently her view of what happened to her.

It would be treason for Libya to do so, it was in a historic confrontation with the west, in the course of which, if need be, it would set fire to all oilfields.

The Tenderloin has a long history as a center of alternate sexualities, including several historic confrontations with police.

Mr. Modon said it was beehive wigs and Cleopatra eyelashes that brought on that historic confrontation, and it was no time to be a gentleman.