In a few instances, Marshall himself narrowly escaped becoming a victim of racist thugs.Surprisingly, he had little sympathy for the civil-rights movement which his legal victories helped to launch, viewing even the non-violent protests led by Martin Luther King as confrontational and counter-productive.
Be firm but not confrontational – argument is counter-productive.
Other such confrontational responses and deliberate counter studies come to mind, as for example, the decades-long controversies on the risks connected with smoking, asbestos, or currently on-going bisphenol A and mobile telephones, where 'manufacturing uncertainty' has been well researched and documented, for example, by Michaels and Morforton [5].
The rebuffs at the marriage-license counter were not confrontational, just a genteel turning away, two by two, like suffragettes a century ago at the polling place.
To pursue the removal of Assad at the moment would be counter productive and confrontational to the point of leading to an armed clash with Russia.
Neither confrontational nor subversive but driven by a counter-consumer urge and a sensibility for fun that involves elaborate props, the Idiot Race drew nearly 200 participants.
I don't particularly believe that Ganguly has an 'effing knowledge how to lead his team and tries to counter-pose it with instigating limitless, confrontational behaviours within the younger members of it.
From the clips released so far, the tone is rarely confrontational, and Putin's answers are rarely fact-checked or countered.
This confirms previous research where Indicating a gap was found to be the most common strategy used to realize Move 2 (e.g., Chin 1993) possibly because it sounds less confrontational to academic reviewers than other possible options, say, bluntly countering a previous claim.
Although this newly aggressive strategy runs counter to Obama's earlier vow to rise above the confrontational, politics-as-usual approach to campaigning, it may be his best shot to stop the Clinton Express in its tracks.
