Sentence examples for would be confrontational from inspiring English sources

The Commons was also designed to be too small to house all MPs at any one time, ensuring that debates would be confrontational yet intimate.

I had come upon a Lost Horizon of preppydom, a kingdom of loud colors, good loafers, rusty bicycles and a vaguely tattered look that would be confrontational at most expensive resorts.

What is the role of beauty and what does it do for us?" The formats of the documentary will be fairly conventional, she added, but the content would be confrontational.

One person due to appear at the meeting said their approach would not be confrontational, but ideally, the MPs would like May to publish a white paper.

He said he would not be confrontational in enforcing a campaign in Tehran to insist women obeyed Iran's strict Islamic dress codes and has also allowed women into major sporting events for the first time since 1979.

These two steps would be dangerously confrontational.

The three main candidates for president have all indicated that they would be less confrontational than the current president, Lee Myung-bak.

Mr. Roh's main opponent, Lee Hoi Chang, of the conservative Grand National Party, has sought to soothe concerns that his approach toward North Korea would be dangerously confrontational.

Though both steps would be "dangerously confrontational" in the newspaper's view, its use of withdraw regarding loans and abrogate about the treaty suggests that it would find the latter step more troubling.

People who know Mr. Negroponte say he would bring to the job his own style, one that would be less confrontational than Daniel Patrick Moynihan's, less high profile than Andrew J. Young's and just as agenda setting as the recently expired term of Richard C. Holbrooke.

In contemplating the possibility of building a political system that would be "less confrontational and more productive than today's," Mr. Brownstein explores a host of suggestions, including term limits for Supreme Court justices, the opening of all party primaries to independents, and the formation of a viable third party.