Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation.

His orders were to avoid an actual confrontation with any Cuban aircraft.

So in actual confrontation such as this, it is not too difficult for us to act unpleasant.

For one thing, this is the first major case brought under the law that does not involve direct personal threats or an actual physical confrontation.

But they are less immediate than the Cambodian photographs, whose subject is the actual confrontation between victims and killers.

Steve Rothman helped avoid escalation to actual physical confrontation.

"For the first time in history, it opens the possibility for actual military confrontation between the leading nuclear powers."

The actual confrontation with my namesake occurred recently and unexpectedly.

The actual dramatic confrontations are kept to a minimum.

But now, presented with an actual confrontation, I was crumbling under the weight of the reality of the moment.