When Tien took me out to the station we were both anticipating a cooperative confession, not a hostile confrontation.

The group further notes that attachment therapy "almost always involves extremely confrontational, often hostile confrontation of a child by a therapist or parent (sometimes both).

She is not as affected by the nightmares that come with the job and manages to keep her cool in hostile confrontations.

If each actor reads one line, then it's a hostile confrontation.

State officials say the cameras may curb hostile confrontations as well as help resolve disputes over reports of brutality.

If the lieutenant had his way, robots would play an expanding role in such hostile confrontations.

With reptile consciousness, we had hostile confrontation.

The PeopleSoft side was willing, so what had been for so long a hostile confrontation became a merger negotiation.

In a historically sanctified relationship, street kids and the police were in casual, intermittent, hostile confrontation.

Thus reformers think their demands will eventually prove overwhelming; there is no need for a hostile confrontation with the conservatives now.