The boycott decision has angered many Western allies, who feel the United States should be supporting them in what promises to be a tense and confrontational meeting.

Creepy Neighbor Creepy Neighbor features the confrontational meetings between two neighbors.

McCarthy, who sued Vincent in 1990 before dropping the suit two months ago, has already had one confrontational meeting with the commissioner.

He had a heated and confrontational meeting with General Petraeus that morning concerning these issues with USIS.

It seemed to me that when the top men from the States came over, the first person to oppose them, to make a good confrontational meeting, should have been the European champion.

During what was described as a tense, confrontational meeting on Tuesday, the Power Authority board reached "an understanding," Mr. Like said.

The senators described the meeting as frank but not confrontational.

Abbas agreed to postpone the vote on the Goldstone report following a confrontational meeting with Yuval Diskin, head of the Israeli Shin Bet security service.

There were confrontational meetings in Washington and in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique.

Mr. Silverstein was also less than diplomatic last February in what one participant described as a confrontational meeting with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, officials say.