Your own encounter, well, it would have been a pretty small thing to those who have known real encounters.

Five or 10 years from now, you will be able to have very real physical encounters with someone thousands of miles away.

It seemed to symbolize the way in which some of these newly independent states were overwhelmed by their first real encounter with the Western press.

It was the first real encounter between the two and the most time they'd ever spend together.

There was no real cultural encounter, only silent adjustment by the few minority students.

The course consists of 36 lessons covering the 70 techniques that are most commonly used in a real physical encounter.

The program can also be a bit unsettling, like many real encounters in Paris.

Just when he had thought the battle was over, the real encounter had begun.

The real encounter - for her probably the final one - would take place in the car, where no one else could see.

A real encounter would be both uglier and richer than the fantasy.