Sentence examples for negative confrontation from inspiring English sources

The debate, the first of several before Election Day, was an unusually negative confrontation after months in which the candidates traded barbs at a distance and through surrogates in their national party organizations.

We must commit to communities mired in deep poverty and hopelessness, where young people are more likely to face a negative confrontation with police than they are to find a job with decent pay and benefits.

They adapt their own activities to spare the care receiver, and to prevent further negative confrontations and difficult behaviour.

Realizing this helps avoid damaging confrontations.

The other three behaviors are ones we expect will influence the level of work demands experienced by employees, namely negative leadership, problem confrontation, and loyalty to superiors.

This social hierarchy can lead to conditioned behaviors, which may result in negative and violent confrontations after release, furthering the likelihood of re-arrest (Petersilia 2008).

First, the inner conflict occurred between patients' rational beliefs and emotional resistance; they felt a sense of duty to survive and wanted to take medication as prescribed in a trustful relationship with the physician, but at the same time, they had negative emotions due to confrontation with cancer, doubt regarding efficacy and concern over potential harm.

When you get defensive, it's often explosive because you've accumulated so much unexpressed negative feelings and you avoid confrontation.

Instead of trying to make them see how they're being negative (which usually only leads to confrontation and reinforcement of their ideas that everyone is against them), try giving noncommittal answers that neither encourage or condemn the negativity.

The resolution condemned the "continuous negative impact of the Israeli military confrontations" in Gaza as well.

A significant negative correlation was found between changes in confrontation naming and changes in metabolism in the precuneus.