Responding to increasing pressure to find a different press policy, Manteuffel decided to diminish the confrontational nature of the government stance.

As their popularity rose, the transgressive and confrontational nature of the group's music and imagery angered social conservatives.

At the time, I wrote a Comment about the altercation, and about the increasingly confrontational nature of sports:

In Thailand, parties tend to avoid legal proceedings because of its confrontational nature.

The confrontational nature of politics and the high stakes often add to the simmering tensions.

Thomas played down the confrontational nature of the exchange.

An employee who makes decisions of a difficult and confrontational nature would thus require job protection.

But the confrontational and combative nature that served him so well in conquering nature may now be turning into a liability.

The experiment is also notable for the way it attempted to avoid the confrontational nature of the earlier Maddox test.

Alternative concerns suggest that the confrontational nature of the smoke can cause some intruders to panic and put staff at risk.