Sentence examples for make a confrontational from inspiring English sources

He relishes conflict, his friends say, and would make a confrontational president.

Though one organizer with a loud speaker encouraged participants to take "autonomous action" and engage in civil disobedience, most demonstrators seemed intent on making a less confrontational statement.

But whatever phrase is chosen, the blue book counsels, "The last thing we want is for a conductor to overreact, and to make an announcement in a confrontational tone of voice".

"The protest with humor has the advantage of both diffusing the harsh edge and also providing a vehicle... to make a protest, without being absolutely confrontational".

"The protest with humour has the advantage of both diffusing the harsh edge and also providing a vehicle... to make a protest, without being absolutely confrontational".

"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.

This has made for a confrontational relationship between the school and the association, prompting an extraordinary public rebuke from the N.C.A.A. president, Cedric Dempsey, about the university's behavior and statements it made about Barkley's second suspension.

They predict that it will make a cumbersome system even more costly and confrontational.

On one level, Yang succeeded in making a funny, non-confrontational appeal for more (and more responsible) representations of Asian Americans on screen.

Mr. Bogosian made his name as a confrontational monologist of urban anomie with shows like "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll" and "Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead".

Among the wider public it is often the same people who routinely dismiss opera as a dead, elitist art form who then take most offence when directors try to make it confrontational and give it contemporary relevance.