What is "confrontational"

Usage examples of "confrontational".

Tellian that you war maids have been hostile and confrontational and rejected his best efforts to work out a peaceable compromise solution to his disputes with you.

It is because our less confrontational options are so weak that we have little choice but to consider the more confrontational ones.

Because both wings of the hawkish faction favored pressing ahead with regime change while maintaining a confrontational approach on containment, for most of the Bush, Sr.

Saddam could be handled in a less confrontational manner that would free up resources for what they considered higher priority issues.

In short, there is widespread popular animosity to any confrontational U.

It should come as no surprise that the southern GCC states are also far less supportive of any kind of confrontational policy toward Iraq.

GCC states are also far less supportive of any kind of confrontational policy toward Iraq.

It's hard-driving, competitive, confrontational, tough-minded - whereas women, they say, are more accepting, consensus-building, and uninterested in challenging conventional wisdom.

The other good thing from Ryan's perspective was that a reporter was less likely to be confrontational in the Oval Office than in the raucous locker-room atmosphere of the pressroom, where the reporters tended to bunch together in a mob and adopt a mob mentality.

We can't positively confirm that, of course, but the aggressive moves they've been making and the generally more confrontational attitude of their naval forces in and around Marsh all seem to us to confirm that thesis.