confrontational language

Both sides have appealed for a halt to confrontational language.

A senior administration official said the move away from confrontational language was merely a tactical retreat.

For all the confrontational language, however, he ended up with an agreement that goes only modestly beyond past accords.

But lacking political experience they fall back on the confrontational language that sustained the largely illiterate army during its years of combat.

But its administrators acknowledge that workers often use aggressive tactics, waking people by yelling and using confrontational language.

But Iran is also capable of abandoning its ideological principles and confrontational language for the sake of a pragmatic goal.

Needless to say, the confrontational language of the Oakland resolution, and the ill-advised statement that ebonics is "genetically based," did nothing to stifle criticism.

In the view of the Bush White House, the president's confrontational language was not a deterrent to talks with Mr. Kim.

The questions, some phrased in confrontational language, explore familiar gaps between the President's account of his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky and the testimony of others.

The two bigger parties say they will join in a coalition only if the other side clarifies its policies and agrees to curb confrontational language by some of its members.

In the 1960's, H. Rap Brown's beret, goatee, and direct confrontational language made him one of the best-known leaders of the Black Panther party.

Now you're "reclaiming traditional confrontational language", doing some "interactive theatre" and "challenging traditional taboos" and you're guaranteed to be talked about at dinner parties for like a whole year.

PAGE A7 U.S. Revises Peru Criticism The State Department has backed away from confrontational language it used about the re-election of President Alberto K. Fujimori.

The more confrontational language by the North Korean agency said American demands for an irreversible dismantling of its nuclear weapons program, as opposed to a suspension, "will destroy the foundation of the dialogue and cast a dark shadow" over hopes for new talks.

Since Mr. Giuliani took office in 1993, several prominent blacks have used confrontational language to criticize policies that they asserted were harmful to their community; both Mr. Sharpton and David N. Dinkins, the former Mayor, said that they have been leveling essentially the same charges against the Giuliani administration for years.