This is about "picking your battles" rather than being confrontational as a matter of course.
Many people would think a less confrontational approach might be preferable – unless, of course, Solanke feels his path is blocked and is looking for a move this summer.
Of course, as Linehan admits, confrontational interviews sometimes make sense – we need them sometimes to get to the truth.
Of course, the governor's confrontational manner is one of the reasons for his popularity, both in New Jersey and nationally, where he is considered possible presidential material.
Ted Cruz, the Republican senator who orchestrated last year's government shutdown over Obama's signature healthcare reforms, proposed a different but similarly confrontational course of action.
Priority of access could, of course, have resulted from either confrontational scavenging or hunting.
With that attitude, of course it very quickly became confrontational, so I can understand that after some time it wasn't working at all.
It is symptomatic, of course, of a broader increase in snarling, confrontational, yobbish behaviour in public – the kind of blight on society it would be heartening to think the new Lib-Con government might start to eradicate.
Of course, there were some highly defensive, yet confrontational accusations that I was whining or calling for a quota system.
Confrontational boycotts as means of influencing corporate behavior are a familiar tactic, of course, and often originate from the left.
