It has also laid bare a divide over Iran policy between Congress and the Obama administration, which has adopted a somewhat less confrontational approach.
But after the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the case on Friday afternoon, the leaders of the Florida House and Senate chose a somewhat less confrontational tack, announcing plans to join Mr. Bush's side before the Supreme Court.
I ended up having to go a different direction for that scene in the book, and make it a scene that's somewhat more confrontational and dramatic.
Mr. Lopez, in an interview, said that while he found the monsignor's strategies to revive the community somewhat ineffective and confrontational, he respected his religious work.
As the world remembers Andy Grove for shaping Silicon Valley into the somewhat paranoid and confrontational powerhouse it is today, there is a much softer undertone of his legacy that is largely missing from the dialogue today.
As CNN reports, Japanese dialogue tends to be somewhat indirect, unlike the confrontational style favoured in US politics.
And in Maariv, Hami Shalev wrote: "This is a Knesset which acts in ways that are not only confrontational but also somewhat perverse.
Called "In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated", it was abstract, and confrontational.
(When asked for a description of the perp, Craig says, "He was a Project Santa Claus; picture Ol Dirty Bastardd in a Santa Claus suit".) Craig, as always, tries to be the voice of reason, though Ice Cube's confrontational cadences undermine that attempt somewhat; his South Central rhythms can make "hello" sound like a dare.
In part, Mr. Bush's ability to make confrontational or highly ideological appointments is somewhat limited by the Democratic-controlled Congress in ways his predecessors were not.
