Sentence examples for A confrontational attitude from inspiring English sources

Bold colours, a confrontational attitude, extravagant fashion sense and street nous all attest to this.

The traditional contracting method imposes a strict distinction between the design and construction phases, which leads to a confrontational attitude between the design and construction teams.

Cyclists have long had a rocky coexistence with motorists and pedestrians, who often criticize bike riders for a confrontational attitude, and for blowing through stop signs or otherwise exempting themselves from the rules of the road.

"It's hard to see how adopting uncritically all Palestinian positions and adopting a confrontational attitude to Israel will bring Israel and the Palestinians closer to reconciliation, compromise and peace.

See History of the Open Source Effort, supra note 13 (maintaining that the term "free software" was associated with a "confrontational attitude"); see also Chris DiBona et al., Introduction to Opensources, supra note 3, at 1, 3; Perens, supra note 12, at 173.

In late March, a senior Chinese official, Qiao Xiaoyang, chairman of the legal committee of the National People's Congress, warned that Beijing "would not accept a chief executive candidate who adopted a confrontational attitude towards the central government," the newspaper reported.

The action is unusual for a train company, but a more confrontational attitude has been apparent in recent months after Peter Wilkinson, a senior official at the Department for Transport, told a public meeting that "we're going to be having punch-ups" with drivers.

Where his firebrand friend Woody Guthrie's guitar was emblazoned with the slogan "This machine kills fascists", Seeger's banjo bore the more ameliorative claim: "This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender" – an indication of a less confrontational attitude.

If Mourinho adopts a similarly confrontational attitude with his new club's owner he will be in trouble.

Some ads are assuming a more confrontational attitude, even starting fights with brands they compete against in the same product category.

But under McClennan, a streetwise coach whose teams have never been shy of a battle, there is no danger of Leeds taking a backward step – and the Wigan coaching team of Maguire and Shaun Wane have tended to instil a similarly confrontational attitude in the Warriors.