Sentences with phrase «confrontational style»

It will be a chance for the 39 - year - old to put in practice his call for a more consensual and less confrontational style of politics - he has insisted he would not revert to the trading of accusations that has characterised Mr Howard's exchanges with the prime minister.

In his speech last night, Paladino showed off more of his blunt, confrontational style with sharp jabs at his opponents.

Since taking on the education role Mrs Morgan has had a much less confrontational style than Mr Gove.

It was not so much that his street - level tactics and confrontational style violated protest orthodoxy, but that he had the capacity to revise his thinking dramatically to suit the circumstances that he faced — even to the extent of giving up some of the socialist principles associated with nationalist thinking to endorse market education reforms such as school vouchers, charter schools, and parental choice.

Coyle, in this and the sequel, Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (2015), writes in a gritty, sometimes confrontational style that's still infused with humor.

Instead of his usual confrontational style, Dumont infuses this reflective drama with raw tenderness.

Jesus is arguably not so unkind or arrogant as that, but there seems nonetheless a similar quality of adolescent rudeness here, a confrontational style that appears almost instinctive, unbidden by the behavior or words of elders.

Candid and compassionate in heart, rock - n - roll in her confrontational style, Jennifer's impact on Christian audiences took a new turn in 2010 when she made public her long - standing same - sex partnership.

Antonious's confrontational style may also alienate some potential business partners.

Spurs continued to court Van Gaal privately but boardroom sources started to disclose concerns over the 63 - year - old's confrontational style.

We choose a «nurturing» rather than a confrontational style these days.

In government he lasted two years before moving on, perhaps with mutual agreement of Cameron and Osborne, who were rumoured to be irritated by his confrontational style with ministers and civil servants combined with Hilton's frustration with what he saw was establishment resistance to change.

In his first address to the UN General Assembly, President Trump brought his confrontational style of leadership to the world's most prominent stage, vowing to «totally destroy North Korea» if it threatened the U.S., and denouncing the nuclear agreement with Iran as «an embarrassment» that he may abandon.

Britain First's confrontational style of campaigning has seen it stage «mosque invasions» and provocative patrols in areas with large numbers of British citizens from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Despite this, our confrontational style of politics doesn't look set to end any time soon, with a power - sharing culture and tone of respectful difference seemingly as far off as ever.

Second, Bulworth, at a morning - after - the - fact campaign stop at the Beverly Wilshire, stuns everyone by utilizing the language of rap to announce his new, confrontational style (at least, everyone thinks it's rap, or an unreasonable facsimile thereof).

One wonders, though, whether it wasn't Rhee's confrontational style that produced the advances in D.C. Keep the same policies but advocate them with «Michelle Lite» (Whitmire's term) and the dysfunction might smoothly absorb them.

A New York Times article from 2004 outlined her «aggressive, confrontational style» and said her «ambitions exceed her political skills.»

Whilst this is the consensus viewpoint amongst the majority of academics, some teachers and parents advocate a more assertive and confrontational style of discipline.

This transition also identified core precepts of Leslie's creative interests — his prioritization of narrative, acceptance of artifice, and the development of what he called a confrontational style of portraiture.

In a confrontational style that tonally echoes the Calling Card work of Adrian Piper and visually suggests the classic text and image juxtapositions of Barbara Kruger, Nery asks, «Why should we care if Will Smith is kissing Eva Mendes instead of Kerry Washington?»

He is best known for canvases painted in a purposefully naïve and confrontational style, which caused quite a scandal when he first began to exhibit them just after World War World War Two.

President Donald Trump, who has reveled in his confrontational style with the news media, sparked fierce debate Sunday over whether he is inciting violence against journalists by posting a doctored video clip showing him bashing the head of a figure...