Sentence examples for confrontational force from inspiring English sources

The exhibit amounts to a campaign by the Sadrists to go beyond their past as a purely confrontational force to Iraqis, presenting a more moderate version of Shiite tenets, which is significant after an election that widely rejected religious parties.

But had a more confrontational manager forced an earlier showdown with the union, downsized faster or tried to hack back a sprawling dealer network protected by state franchise laws, he might merely have hastened bankruptcy.

He was as ready as ever to adopt a confrontational course, forcing the FDP ministers to resign and thus take the blame for his fall in October 1982, even though it amounted to political suicide.

In another confrontational move, the force placed on its website a statement from one of the victims which described the CPS's decision as a "disgrace" and "not in the public interest".

Not naturally confrontational, he nevertheless forced through several key changes during a long stint on the Middlesex committee.

Too much of the film is in a mood of chin-scratching detachment, and this creates a vacuum in which its powerful, confrontational moments lose their force, the trauma of the past pushed nearly out of reach.

A rejection would be its most confrontational act since it forced the resignation of Jacques Santer's European Commission in 1999 over allegations of corruption.

Don't be confrontational and bowl over colleagues with force of personality, Mr. Stupski advised, but concentrate more on building consensus and maintaining key relationships.

Commissioner Hollaway does not face the condescending and confrontational examination that Administrator Jackson is forced to endure.

That niche was confrontational scavenging, sometimes called "power scavenging" [ 16].

Bringing the audience into the confrontational space of the brothel, added Kondol, forced people to directly confront the reality of the lives of sex workers, many of whom found themselves trapped in the industry out of economic necessity.