Stringfellow and Campbell raised difficult and confrontational issues and were skewered by the established church folk.
Before the 2004 raid, the prosecutors tried a less confrontational approach, issuing a subpoena for all the samples and the results from the 2003 testing.
And while the presidential race remains, in a marketing sense, one of the more polite in memory, the tone of new advertising in the last week has been noticeably more confrontational, on issues if not personalties, as strategists home in on states they believe are up for grabs -- or at least want the other side to think they consider winnable.
Nor will the chancellor, Angela Merkel, or vice chancellor, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, immediately take a more confrontational approach on issues like climate change.
For more than a year, China and Japan, the world's second- and third-largest economies, have been increasingly confrontational over the issue.
Noises emerged from last week's Republican strategy session for the new congress suggesting the party will be less confrontational on the issue of raising the national debt ceiling, the biggest flashpoint of the next few weeks.
The Republican message was clear, consistent and deliberately confrontational on the issues of God, guns and gays.
In recent weeks, Israel has appeared to take a less confrontational approach on some issues.
Beginning performances at Playwrights Horizons on Friday, it's his darkest and arguably most confrontational play, pointedly evoking issues related to current-day terrorism in the Middle East and in the United States on Sept. 11.
