Sentence examples for confrontational era from inspiring English sources

But the 1960s and '70s were a confrontational era.

She worked steadily throughout the decade and was one of a small number of actors who made the transition from civil-rights-era fare into the more confrontational work of the Blaxploitation era, in the seventies.

The band was responsible for some of rock's most confrontational songs in the Vietnam era, including "Ohio," about the Kent State shootings in 1970, and two years ago Mr. Young (who directs here under his whimsical alias, Bernard Shakey) went back on the road with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and David Crosby with some new tunes about Iraq.

In naming it the fourth greatest album on About.com's list of the Best Rap Albums of 1993, columnist Henry Adaso wrote of the album favorably, stating "Unlike most hip-hop albums of its era, Enta Da Stage eschewed confrontational raps and opted for brooding, electrifying brand of hip-hop".

Barnes was one of a number of cricket writers of the immediate post-war era who adopted a confrontational tabloid style of journalism, in contrast to the more sedate reporting of the 1930s.

This is why Obama has tried to steer away from the confrontational politics of the Clinton-Bush era, but has not dodged the taboos that the prior generation assiduously avoided from the death penalty to Social Security.

This is the elusive ni-ni — a term derived from "neither-nor" in Spanish that was invented by Venezuelan pollsters to describe a broad swath of the Venezuelan electorate that, 13 and a half years into the hyper-confrontational, uber-polarized mayhem of the Chávez era, refuses to identify with either side in the political debate.

A few months later, however, he began writing in a conversational and confrontational way that began to define a new era in business reporting – and a boom in startup coverage that changed the way the world thought about entrepreneurship.

In which James Chance demonstrated that the sax had its place in the confrontational music of the early New York post-punk era.

Macri's win is rooted in his success in laying the blame on the Kirchner era for chronically high inflation, rising crime, confrontational domestic and international politics, and a series of corruption scandals.

Mr. Palij, 79, presented what lawyers say is a confrontational but not unknown defense in deportation cases stemming from the Nazi era.