The Palestinians confront a harsh reality.

Today, two Polands confront each other.

Violence and destruction stand in the way of Afghanistan s future. pic.twitter.com nJ8UjQfQvm NATO in Afghanistan ( NATOscr) August 7, 2017

Many environmental lobbyists oppose even researching climate engineering.

The US is backing rebels who stand against both Assad and IS.

Arts Engage made this point in opposing the self censorship scheme proposed by the MDA

On the plus side, there s been an increase in realistic images, which counter stereotypes.

In this age of global mobility, countries, too, go head to head in the battle for talent.

Government forces and paramilitary units loyal to them are confronting insurgents primarily comprised of Islamists.

These sessions were directly related to linguistic, technical, organizational, and socio cultural challenges faced by the digital activists.

The reason it is hard going in Afghanistan right now, for example, is that the forces we are facing are making it so.

Sometimes, one can see them with greater clarity by observing how others are confronting them.

So they oppose extradition of the indicted including ex president Milosevic to the Hague Tribunal.

While the residents of Silverio Compound remain undaunted by oppression and brutality, they need all the support that they can muster to ensure that justice will be served.

American presidential candidates pretend to run against Washington even when they are the sons of former presidents.

Here was a telling sign the people confronting the very guerillas who purported to represent them.

The great banking, financial, and economic crises, which every country in the world still confronts, has made things worse.

An infection such as the coronavirus is currently countered with a vaccine tailored to block it.

Their real job is to be against and this time, it is the customers they are to be against.

More often, however, the cleansing is a pretext to change political direction after the people have voted in a way that magistrates oppose.

Liberals who welcome it as a beacon of freedom and progress in the Arab world confront those who accuse it of Islamism and religious radicalization.

Politics is still dominated by a large center left party and a large center right party, but smaller groups some claiming the center and others the right and left extremes challenge them to various degrees.

France s Socialist Green government can play a critical unifying role as Europeans confront their biggest challenge in decades.

To join the inspectors, weapons experts are obliged to resign from their national postings, but few are ready to give up their careers to work in the UN bureaucracy. Thus, the UN team is much smaller and less experienced than its predecessors, and faces Iraqi counterparts steeped in the art of deception.

Thus, the UN team is much smaller and less experienced than its predecessors, and faces Iraqi counterparts steeped in the art of deception.

But watching the Burmese monks on television defy the security forces of one of the world s most oppressive regimes, it is hard not to see some merit in religious belief.

Those who oppose abortion irrespective of its purpose argue that sacrificing a human embryo to obtain stem cells is akin to abortion and therefore immoral.

We can only speculate that North Korea's military is resisting any real change because the regime's survival depends on its military first politics.

Wedged into an area where three giants China, Japan, and Russia confront each other, Korea has had a difficult history of developing sufficient hard military power to defend itself.

A total of almost 1.5 million young soldiers from both North and South Korea face off against each across the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone.

The first is America s self imposed fiscal cliff, which, if not avoided, could throw the United States into recession, with massive repercussions for the world economy, and thus for Europe. Second, a hot war in the Persian Gulf, in which Israel and or the US confronts Iran over its nuclear program, would result in a sharp rise in global energy prices.

Second, a hot war in the Persian Gulf, in which Israel and or the US confronts Iran over its nuclear program, would result in a sharp rise in global energy prices.

For example, primary and secondary education needs improvements that the teachers unions are blocking, and criminal activity, much of it drug related, makes personal security a serious concern throughout the country.

At present, senior officials in the ruling regime even oppose the idea of ethnic minorities being allowed to receive educational instruction in their mother tongue, the argument being that that teaching classes in a language other than Persian would undermine the unity of the Iranian nation.

In the Middle East, the US confronts Iran, which seeks to expand its power by any means it can, to oust neighboring countries governments in favor of ideologically sympathetic forces, and ultimately to evict America from the region.

Once the lodestar for American optimism and achievement, California now illustrates the difficulties confronting the United States and how much more can still go wrong domestically.

In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.

Even those with close historical ties to France, like Romania, are standing up to France, because Chirac and his colleagues do not offer them the type of European reflex they want and need.