Six years later, on October 14, 2011, when he was serving as US Treasury Secretary, Geithner greeted the prosecution of several hedge fund managers for various trading infractions in a much more confrontation tone.
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Charlemagne would choose a more obscure confrontation as his memory of the outgoing Polish government.
The good news is that contrary to widely held belief, cooperation is more frequent than confrontation over water.
With just two more episodes, the final confrontation is drawing near and I have absolutely no idea what to expect.
The judge asked Kogan for more information on the jail confrontation, including the criminal record of the other inmate involved.
The American public, showing real signs of war weariness after two ground wars over more than a decade, is unlikely to be enthusiastic about a military confrontation with Iran that is likely to be far more costly and indeterminate than either Iraq or Afghanistan.
The threats, while very different than the Cold War confrontation, are much more complex, much more varied, and much more disparate and less able to be dealt with by the kind of static and ordered forces that we were used to in the Cold War.
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Yasser Arafat's death gives both Palestinians and Israelis another chance to put an end to the confrontation which has lasted for more than 50 years.
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The choice facing us is between peace between the brave that will raise relations between us to a positive track and good neighbourly relations and prosperity, and, God forbid, a violent confrontation that will only cause more suffering and victims while not solving any problems...
More than two years after the breakout of the Syrian confrontation there does not seem to be a military solution.
Veeck is the son of the late Bill L. Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner, and he inherited more than a little of his father's instinct for confrontation.
Since people tend to avoid confrontation, especially with authority figures, passive resistance is more common in organizations than most of us realize.
The possibility that such naivete could prove infectious is all the more troubling since even some European leaders who have preferred accommodation to confrontation when it came to terrorism and its sponsors appeared jarred by the Madrid bombings.
And with some of her more radical colleagues champing at the bit, her preference for persuasion over confrontation will be put to the test.
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In Jordan, the Khaliji boom has more or less compensated for the 43% fall in European tourism during the confrontation with Iraq last February.
It is a confrontation, long brewing, over the Justice and Security Bill that will allow more civil courts to examine secret intelligence in private.
"I appeal once more to all the peoples involved, and to their political leaders, to recognise that confrontation has failed and will always fail, " he said.
He advocates a switch away from confrontation (noisy demonstrations, and taking legal action against businesses) in favour of a more co-operative approach.
In other words, even though the final confrontation with Woodbury is just one week away, and even though things have never looked more bleak and terrifying for our little band of survivors, there is still hope and resilience.
Despite the history of confrontation in the Portadown area, the knock-on effect elsewhere has only been felt in more recent years.
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