Sentence examples for confrontational stand from inspiring English sources

They say nothing in intelligence reports suggests that Russia's military posture is now more threatening; a confrontational stand by NATO would just abet the Kremlin's hawks.

But as The Atlantic noted, he faces an internal battle among the settlers over tactics; many prefer a more principled, confrontational stand to his pragmatic, businesslike approach.

The group has waited more than 80 years for this moment; its aging leaders are famously cautious and pragmatic, and therefore profoundly uneasy with Beltagy's confrontational stand toward the military council.

Huston was part of a delegation of industry liberals including Bogart and Lauren Bacall who flew to Washington, D.C., to support those witnesses who had taken a confrontational stand when called to testify before the HUAC.

Wales's success under Warren Gatland has masked underlying problems that need a consensual approach to resolve, not the confrontational stand taken by a centralist WRU that appears resolved to change everything but itself.

Allen, at a spry 46, is a good deal older than the others, and began as a confrontational stand-up comedian on the 'alternative comedy' circuit of the early 80s.

With expectations raised, Cruz ruffled feathers among mainstream Republicans by helping to bounce House speaker John Boehner into a confrontational stand-off over the normally routine continuing budget resolution.

"I was not qualified enough to be both an administrator and an advocate," he said, expressing regret that he had taken such confrontational stands.

Japan's withholding of aid reverses a policy of careful engagement that it has pursued while Western nations took more confrontational stands.

Beijing's highest-profile house church, known as Shouwang, took what even many of its supporters felt was too confrontational a stand in a dispute about its venue and its leaders were detained.

For them, Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace, who opposed a confrontational stance toward the Soviet Union, better reflected in 1948 what the New Deal stood for than did Democrat Harry Truman.