Sentence examples for confrontational behavior from inspiring English sources

Hicks was known for his temper and confrontational behavior.

A governor bent on a potentially tough re-election campaign would be expected to exhibit more aggressive and confrontational behavior, and perhaps some public jabs at Mr. Abbott.

The writer explains an UNSCOM program conceived by Ritter in 1995 called Shake the Tree, which used unpredictable inspections and confrontational behavior to "shake up" Iraqi officials.

When Raff goes to Harvard, he is amazed at the confrontational behavior of its radical environmentalists, so inimical to Southern culture, just as Dr. Wilson was when attacked by left-leaning Harvard colleagues over his book "Sociobiology".

Trump did not invite other NATO leaders for a grand summit to honor the anniversary, and many of those leaders were reluctant to hold such a meeting anyway because of Trump's confrontational behavior at past gatherings.

Mrs. Conyers, who has become notorious in the last year for erratic and confrontational behavior, was widely thought to be that Council member, but until Friday she had publicly denied wrongdoing.

It was initially used to model strongly confrontational behaviors and then extended to model more general behaviors such as those in commercial and social domains.

Because proactive aggression is planned and unprovoked, these distorted thoughts probably concern both direct, confrontational behaviors, and calculated, nonconfrontational behaviors.

In contrast, because reactive aggression is characterized by affective outbursts, it probably is associated with thoughts about direct, confrontational behaviors, but not with thoughts about indirect, more planned behaviors.

His lack of leadership in the healthcare legislative fight, including his quick abandonment of a public option confirm the reality -- Obama is an accommodationist -- relentlessly pursuing the same kind of non-confrontational behavior that enabled him as a black man to appear sufficiently non-threatening to rise to the top.

Data also revealed that two-thirds of respondents had difficulty sleeping after using social media, and 25percentt admitted to difficulties in relationships because of "confrontational online" behavior, per the Telegraph.