Last week, at another news conference, he cut off a reporter who used the word "maintain" in a question, calling the word inappropriate because of its confrontational connotation.
The couple's popularity has dipped severely in opinion polls because of their confrontational style of governing and the administration's refusal to adjust its populist economic policies amid falling foreign investment and heavy capital flight.
Lord Tebbit, a former party chairman, muddied this message, telling the BBC that most women were unsuited for politics because of its confrontational nature.But generally it was the "inclusive" message which came through most strongly at the conference.
Bergh, nicknamed the Great Meddler by newspaper reporters because of his confrontational style, was particularly horrified by the cruelty he saw directed at working horses, the primary beasts of burden at the time.
The NPC's proposal leaves no chance that a candidate will even need make the ballot against China's will.Defending the NPC's decision in press conferences in Beijing and Hong Kong, Li Fei, chairman of its Basic Law committee, insisted that "some people in Hong Kong can never be chief executive" because of their "confrontational" stance.
Let me widen the scope of the question by applying it to the city in which I live much of the year, Kolkata – a city with a turbulent political history and an extraordinary cultural one, once the capital of India under the British, demoted from that status in 1911 because of its confrontational nationalism.
As we noted in a Huffington Post blog earlier this year: "While many of our politicians have been criticized because of their confrontational and contentious nature, they are not independent agents.
Now, I've been in Indonesia long enough to know this could mean one of two things: either he is actually asking her to give him a blowjob or he is feeling nervous because of the confrontational tone of the conversation and he's just trying to move it along as fast as possible.
