the path of confrontation.

trigger a trend of confrontation, which is bound to escalate and where everyone stands to lose.

I think that would be a grave miscalculation by the U.S., and particularly by Europe,

All Iran wants to do is to enjoy the right under the NPT, the right which has been denied to it for more than two decades,

We're into the confrontation now.

The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me.
"I saw that movie too!"I said."It was like the coolest movie of all-"
He launched himself at me.
That was when his day really went downhill.