And although I endeavored to steer my family, by providing better choices without confrontation, there have been times where I have had to 'put my foot down' and say 'No!

尽管我一直坚持只是劝导我的家人，给他们提供更好的选择而非对抗，但有些时候我也会采取坚定的立场并说“不！”

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Neither can the present standoff, without the danger of a more serious confrontation that nobody wants.

目前的对峙也不能持续，否则将造成无人乐见的危险对抗。

youdao

Without a confrontation of ideas no clarity and thoroughness can be attained, and that's not good.

思想不交锋，就缺乏明确性和彻底性，这个不好。

youdao

But while Reagan's stand against the air traffic controllers changed the direction of labor relations, the transit workers in New York actually ended up winning a pretty expensive deal the city probably could have gotten without the confrontation.

WSJ: Insufferable or irrepressible, Koch inspired NYC

PHILIPPE(Doctors Without Borders): Because yesterday was a confrontation between armed groups and U.N. troops in (unintelligible) north of Cite Soleil, our usual way to entering is Cite Soleil, so we changed today the way to enter.

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