Sentence examples for more confrontational when from inspiring English sources

"I certainly hope that whoever is the next Treasury secretary is going to be more confrontational when necessary than Geithner's been," Mr. Krugman says.

Observers taking part in the first two studies predicted they would be more confrontational when faced with sexual harassment than victims generally are, and they judged the passive victims more harshly, sometimes indicating an unwillingness to work with those victims or to recommend them for a job.

Mr. Conlon, a son of left-leaning Roman Catholics, takes a more confrontational approach when it comes to giving these composers a fair hearing.

The undocumented youth movement took on more confrontational tactics when in May 2010, three queer undocumented youth -- Mohammad Abdollahi (Michigan), Yahaira Carrillo (Kansas/Missouri), and Tania Unzueta (Illinois) -- sat down in Senator John McCain's office in Arizona in the first known act of civil disobedience by undocumented immigrants, to demand the federal DREAM Act.

Political consultants cite a strikingly consistent pattern when it comes to darker, more confrontational commercials.

When they emerge from the cave, after more confrontational whispering, Tyrion gives her the good but terrible news about Casterly Rock.

Maybe she became a caricature of herself – louder, more confrontational, one dimensional – but you were still never sure what would happen when she was around.

In the original script, Yoshimura made Pembleton more confrontational with the firefighters and emergency personnel, but this aspect of the script was changed when Fontana suggested it was too distracting.

When that didn't work, he learned his lesson and has been much more confrontational since.

When Polish soldiers began to die in the NATO mission, enthusiasm for the more confrontational style of the United States began to wane.

Research has shown that ADHD patients use more confrontational and escape-avoidance behaviours for the management of stressful situations and less planned problem-solving strategies when compared to a control group of individuals without ADHD [ 18, 19].