Sentence examples for By confrontational from inspiring English sources

But at times, his message has been overshadowed by confrontational or provocative statements.

The conditions for Turkey's military coups were created by confrontational governments that responded to social discontent with oppression and violence.

This was accompanied by confrontational rhetoric toward the Soviet Union, and by actions that caused concern both in our country and throughout the world.

Throughout, Preminger maintains a studiously neutral perspective, framing most scenes as balanced two-shots and allowing dialogue sequences to play out uninflected by confrontational cross-cutting.

Lawmakers report being buttonholed over bailouts by confrontational constituents, and Senator Robert F. Bennett, Republican of Utah, was jeered at a party convention by people chanting "TARP, TARP, TARP".

This was accompanied by confrontational rhetoric toward the Soviet Union, and more than rhetoric -- by a number of actions that caused concern both in our country and among many people throughout the world.

About a dozen members who were interviewed over the past three weeks said they had been distressed by the confrontational approach taken by the club's chairman, William Johnson.

There's one twist, though: the Cold War action centered around the autumn of 1989 is seen in flashbacks, framed by the confrontational debriefing of Lorraine by two high officials, one British (played by Toby Jones) and the other American (John Goodman) — and that debriefing finds Lorraine wounded and bruised, both physically and emotionally.

In The Second Stage (1981), Friedan, her eye on middle America, argued that feminists were alienating support by being confrontational and anti-men and by opposing marriage and the family.

The old symmetries were shattered, and in their place was something moody, hard-nosed, by turns confrontational and gorgeous: rock torn up by the roots and built into magnificent new shapes.

They are by nature confrontational and determined.