Sentences with phrase «open confrontation»

Catalan leader Artur Mas has been swept by events into open confrontation with Madrid.

A source was quoted to have said: «The governor was unhappy that the two could engage in open confrontation, which could ridicule the state», adding that «Shettima summoned the meeting to resolve the crisis, and find ways to avert a recurrence.»

They maintained an appearance of cordiality toward the Holy See, skirting open confrontation in negotiations.

Indeed, Balls and Alexander are egging on Osborne and William Hague towards open confrontation.

For a family drama of sort, there is a lot of melancholia albeit the story lacks the usual open confrontation.

Partners who are more avoidant — preferring to steer clear of emotional closeness and intimacy — are more likely to use strategies like withdrawal (the least ideal strategy), manipulation, and mediated communication, and less likely to use open confrontation.

Pius XII was a good man, not a bad one, in my view then and now; under the terrible circumstances of the Second World War, he did what he could to save Jews while avoiding an open confrontation with the Nazi regime.

«The resurgence or large scale perpetration of the evil has now gotten to an uncontrollable and unacceptable level that an open confrontation or war has now been provoked between the Yorubas and the Fulanis.

In Crimson Tide it was the opening confrontation between Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington.

After that opening confrontation, Adonis winds up in the care of Apollo's wife, Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad), growing up with luxury but also relative anonymity out in Los Angeles.

Its purpose is to promote and diffuse artistic contemporary creation through an articulate process of investigation, production and open confrontation.

If this isn't enough evidence to convince you to adopt the open confrontation strategy and avoid the avoidance / withdrawal strategy in your own breakups, consider this: people who had been dumped via open confrontation were less angry with their partners, whereas people who had been dumped using avoidance / withdrawal were angrier with their ex-partners.

Participants rated the open confrontation style of breaking up as the most ideal — participants felt that it conveyed more concern for their feelings.

Avoidance strategies were associated with the most recalled anger in reaction to the breakup; open confrontation was associated with the least.