"I think there is a general approach by both sides to treat this issue with wisdom and without making this a confrontational issue," Mr. Ban said.
I admire Buffett for taking such a strong stand on taxing millionaires and billionaires to redress in part the disparity between the very rich and the rest of us which is a seethingly confrontational issue in the 2012 presidential election.
I admire Buffett for taking such a strong stand on taxing millionaires and billionaires to redress in part the disparity between the very rich and the rest of us -- which is a seethingly confrontational issue in the 2012 presidential election.
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.
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.
Nor will the chancellor, Angela Merkel, or vice chancellor, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, immediately take a more confrontational approach on issues like climate change.
The Republican message was clear, consistent and deliberately confrontational on the issues of God, guns and gays.
The composite Republican candidate — reflecting the party's ideological mean — has been harsh on immigration, confrontational on social issues, simplistic in condemning government and silent on the struggles of the poor.
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.
