Sentence examples for confrontational figure from inspiring English sources
Other possibilities, officials say, include Judge Alito, who was a clerk for Justice Scalia and is nicknamed Scalito by some lawyers but who is seen as a far less confrontational figure.
United see the Spurs boss as a less confrontational figure but the feeling among the board is that a statement must be made to counteract Manchester City's capture of Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola.
Archbishop Williams is rarely seen as a confrontational figure, preferring to seek consensus on issues that have divided the Anglican Communion, like the ordination of gays and the appointment of women as bishops.
According to John Burdick, a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University and the author of "Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil" (Routledge), Anastacia was chosen by those Afro-Brazilians looking for "an alternative to the separatist radicalism" of the prevailing black movement, represented by Zumbi, a "racially confrontational figure".
Mrs Morgan was introduced as a less confrontational figure, offering an olive branch to a teaching profession that had felt that it was being used for target practice.
In this sense, Washington agrees with Moscow in preferring an appeasing representative rather than a confrontational figure.
He offers confrontational figures of speech amiably.
Clearly things were getting a bit too settled in the world of one of rock's more confrontational figures, because now he has employed m'learned friends to take action against a wrestling company.
The tone was conspiratorial, not confrontational: Eminem figured that his listeners were having as much fun as he was.
Someone of his relentlessly confrontational nature needs a hate figure on whom to concentrate fire.
It was unprecedented for a group of junior senators to take such a confrontational posture toward a senior figure like Warner, effectively threatening to strip him of his chairmanship; Warner was convinced they had been put up to it by Rumsfeld himself.
