Boys keep the peace through confrontation and competition.

This time he was no longer a lawyer but a lobbyist, trying to build consensus rather than to win through confrontation.

"Through constant confrontation, our policy of containing Iraq has been successful," he said.

They went so far as through direct confrontation of a dictatorship, demanding the fall of the regime.

Through confrontation, has the President broken his pattern of recovery and loss, of compulsive, addictive, destructive behavior?

They are able to handle hurtful, unsafe people through biblical confrontation.

In foreign policy, it's a doctrine commonly used to interact with a significant enemy through an intermediary rather than through direct confrontation.

"You can't do it through confrontation," he said.

Through sometimes violent confrontation, the stifling conformity of postwar Germany was punctured.

The reason appears to be that he has sought change not through confrontation but through consensus, relying on his unusually broad range of personal connections.