Never did God, who delights in antitheses, produce a more striking contrast, or a more extraordinary confrontation.

A sudden turn for the worst in a well-established convalescence, held something of the same startling confrontation.

The traditional confrontation of rural vs. urban life is doubly underlined by two factors: first, the countryside operates generally on a use economy with pay for services largely in kind or by barter.

Violent confrontations, often resulting in hundreds of deaths, occur in many provinces.