By 1934, however, he was moving toward a more confrontational policy.

And the new Mayor was a militant former union man who consolidated power by adopting a confrontational policy toward the city's suburban neighbors.

More recently, in response to public misgivings, the major powers have urged a reversion to less confrontational policies.

Voters did not elect right-of-center leaders to repeal the welfare state or to promote a confrontational foreign policy.

The leaders, including President Rafsanjani, left little doubt that they were reorienting their diplomacy from the confrontational policies of the last decade.

They wanted a less confrontational policy in foreign affairs and more socialist actions.

Khrushchev replied that Mao's confrontational policies would provoke a nuclear war.

The measures it puts forward are within the framework of this policy, so they hide the real reason behind the problems: the EU's confrontational policy.

And now, unlike a few months ago, Secretary of State Baker also seems willing to back a confrontational policy.

We're afraid his demand for a more confrontational foreign policy will resonate with that anger and hatred.