The stage has been set for the most bitter confrontation in the 53-year history of the International Monetary Fund.

It also appears to set the stage for a second and more bitter legal confrontation with the Brawley family.

He'd had a bitter confrontation with the Company wizards over the standardbearer.

The dispute between Australia's 1,700 pilots and the airlines has turned into the country's most bitter industrial confrontation for many years.

Hiding under the Speaker's desk next year to avoid bitter confrontations won't do it.

They were the first known fatalities in the bitter confrontation there over casino gambling.

But they seemed to have hit a wall that threatened to erupt into the kind of bitter confrontation that led to the strike.

It resulted in a bitter confrontation between Collins and some black players, including Muhammad.

Mr. Rose said the bitter confrontations that pitted environmentalists against industry will no longer work.

Unable to reach an agreement with the administration, firefighters mounted the protest, which turned into a bitter confrontation that left several police officers injured.