The phrase "a confrontational stance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an attitude or position that is aggressive or combative in nature, often in discussions or debates.
Example: "During the meeting, she took a confrontational stance, challenging every point made by her colleagues."
Alternatives: "an aggressive position" or "a combative approach."
It's the cops who begin yelling and who take a confrontational stance.
Critics called it a confrontational stance, too angry and menacing for a man of peaceful resistance.
A third cause for hope may, paradoxically, be a growing reluctance in the South to take a confrontational stance against provocation.
A portrait of Thom Gunn taken in 1988 shows the poet in a confrontational stance in leather vest, jeans and boots, posed near a jukebox.
The union's reputation preceded it; it was known in Basra for taking a confrontational stance towards the occupation and for being "clean".
Lisa Jervis wrote in her first editor's letter, in 1996, how the word was not meant as an insult: "A confrontational stance is powerful".
Well, Carter sided with the hardliners and moved the U.S. from a Nixonian détente to a more confrontational stance against the godless Russians and approved Brzezinski's plan to goad the Soviets into invading Afghanistan so that, as Brzezinski admittedly put it years later: "...we could give them their Vietnam".
In the coming weeks, the Obama administration faces a series of politically charged deadlines set by Congress to decide whether to continue negotiating with China over currency and trade issues or to take a more confrontational stance and name China a currency manipulator.
Barack Obama left the German chancellor in no doubt that he would like to see her adopt a less confrontational stance towards the Greek government, during a heated two-hour discussion at the G8 summit at Camp David, outside Washington.
But later today, in an interview with state television, he adopted a more confrontational stance, saying that the farmers have "behaved as enemies of Zimbabwe" in "coercing" their workers to support the new opposition party and in contesting a constitutional amendment giving the government the right to seize white-owned land without compensation.
