Cases in which the patient used alcohol before the altercation were included.
The former meaning is correct, but the latter is so mistaken that if it were used it would surely cause an altercation!
In general, appeals for reduction (particularly of monetary fines) had a good chance, more so in the case of verbal conflicts than in violent altercations.
Classrooms (and laboratories) where there are highly asymmetrical authority relations between teacher/experimenter and student tend to suppress the engagement of altercation skills.
First, there is the possibility of an altercation when someone refuses to give his name.
There is the tradition of diffuse debate and angry altercation.
He was involved in a slight altercation about underground trains.
He was involved in an altercation in the local pub, and not a particularly elegant altercation but simply an argument with another constituent of mine.
