Concerned about Mexico's political stability, the State Department has been the biggest advocate of a less confrontational American position.

He criticizes the Brooklyn Museum for mounting the offensive exhibition in the first place, and he also is offended by the mayor's confrontational litigious position.

But as both sides have clung to confrontational positions, worries have been growing on all sides that the tensions could erupt in dangerous ways.

Won't their more confrontational positions inevitably determine the public face of the church?

Determined to effect change, he took bold and confrontational positions.

But the Berkeley faculty spurned Mr. Kerr's confrontational position, and he gave in to the protesters.

The confrontational position aided the MNS volunteers to get into the limelight".

Mr. Junnell, when we're in confrontational position, you have the initiative to bring us up to maximum subshift speed.

But he needs, as far as possible, to avoid sending troops into unnecessarily confrontational positions and should minimize the use of live ammunition.

Another risk is a kind of confrontational position with Russia.