Sentence examples for with a confrontational from inspiring English sources

Avoid approaching your doctor with a confrontational manner; as already outlined above, most doctors avoid confrontation.

Sony twisted the knife with a confrontational E3 press conference and a viral video lampooning the Xbox one sharing system.

A trio of plays, beginning with 1982's Absolute Signal, all but launched experimental theatre in China, with a confrontational, often absurdist style that unnerved the communist authorities.

This study sets out to design and implement a teaching sequence that offers students the opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to deal with a confrontational patient.

See History of the Open Source Effort, supra note 13 (maintaining that the term "free software" was associated with a "confrontational attitude"); see also Chris DiBona et al., Introduction to Opensources, supra note 3, at 1, 3; Perens, supra note 12, at 173.

The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll's novel "Billiards at Half Past Nine," which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to the Bartók music that adorns the soundtrack.

The Stilletoes (featuring Deborah Harry, soon to be with Blondie), Suicide (a confrontational electronic duo), Wayne County (a transvestite rocker), and the band forever associated with CBGB's, the Ramones, began performing.

Warning Congress that "I intend to fight obstruction with action," he painted a confrontational picture that stands in sharp contrast with the conciliatory approach taken by the last Democrat to seek a second term, Bill Clinton.

The doctor at Ealing hospital said: "Everybody feels things are done behind their back with ulterior motives, in a confrontational rather than cooperative way.

Each episode looks into a phenomenon or event around which wild speculation has grown, with Mr. Ventura taking a confrontational approach to getting answers that often results in slammed doors and "No comment".

Aside from the photo ops, the trip did not go well: President Dwight Eisenhower refused to meet with him; after delivering a confrontational speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Castro was angered by several questions from the audience and stormed out.