Sentence examples for confrontational demands from inspiring English sources

The new S&P warning follows Obama's efforts to sabotage bipartisan cooperation on the "Supercommittee" deficit reduction panel by making confrontational demands for half of a trillion dollars more in stimulus spending and trillions of dollars of new class warfare tax increases on investment and charity.

The netroots can be reflexively confrontational and demand ideological purity.

"I'd rather you say 'confrontational.' " He is most confrontational when demanding landmark status for large chunks of Harlem.

But her songs have a fierce, confrontational tone, demanding respect, and the beats are boosted to industrial heft and impact.

Some were grateful, some simply wanted numbers, and some were confrontational: one demanded a detailed copy of every lesson plan I intended to teach for the next half term, because her child had told her he didn't feel my lessons were interesting enough for him.

It is confrontational and demanding.

Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt's tactics are bruising and confrontational and demand dominance up front.

As much as his defensive ability, Ramos was sorely missed for his inspirational leadership qualities, with his aggressive and confrontational attitude demanding a similarly determined mindset from those around him.

My supervisor at the time was the first person to tell me this and as confrontational as demanding more sounds, it doesn't always have to be.

A COMTF-sponsored public meeting in Guerneville in 2006 turned confrontational as landowners demanded to know why nothing was being done about the piles of dead tanoaks in the steep, forested canyons where they lived.

Indeed, in 2011, Allen published an autobiography that characterized Gates as demanding and confrontational and said while he was battling cancer back in 1982, Gates and eventual Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were "scheming to rip me off".