Air Force planners dropped the issue to avoid a messy political confrontation.

Army officers say they are trying to keep the military out of the growing political confrontation here.

The result is that the protests, while still peaceful, have become a frontal political confrontation.

It was a symptom of a political confrontation that has now ended.

He didn't want any political confrontations disturbing the joy of the holiday.

The fact is that ideas about the relationship between science and religion have themselves been weapons in these political confrontations.

But for now, political confrontation is in a lull.

But others in the civil rights movement questioned whether he would lead the group away from its tradition of political confrontation.

Here it is a confrontation between two different entities, political and religious.

We had a political confrontation with China in 1996 and growth sank to 5.7 percent.