Sentence examples for confrontational steps from inspiring English sources
But if this is the case, the method it will be dealt with is quiet negotiation and quiet dialogue with the United States and not confrontational steps to alienate one part of the hierarchy in the US as opposed to the other".
Mr. Chávez has stepped up his confrontational tone with Washington ever since the Bush administration tacitly approved a coup that briefly toppled him 2002.
To be successful as an international team you have to play on the edge, be confrontational and never take a step back.
The president stepped up his confrontational policy of sending Russian bombers and submarines to probe western defences in the North Atlantic and Baltic in 2015, part of his vainglorious attempt to re-establish Russia as a global superpower.
Han chided him for enjoying "private planes and luxury yachts" while "wresting intellectual property from our hands," and he ended on a confrontational note: If Baidu "refuses to step back, then I might take a few steps forward, until one day soon you might look down from your office in Beijing and see me standing there".
These two steps would be dangerously confrontational.
Though both steps would be "dangerously confrontational" in the newspaper's view, its use of withdraw regarding loans and abrogate about the treaty suggests that it would find the latter step more troubling.
The only hope for Mr. Chávez and Venezuela is for him to step back from his confrontational agenda.
Separately, South Korea's military appeared to step back from one confrontational stance on Monday, canceling live-fire artillery drills on the island in the Yellow Sea attacked by the North a week ago.
McLeod was the firebrand, combative, confrontational activist who never took a backwards step or ignored the opportunity an open mic gave him to speak his mind.
