Sami wasn't a confrontational person.

Should civil society always be confrontational? Are there cultural and regional dimensions to inclusiveness?

And I don't mean be confrontational when I say this because that's not productive.

The old bipolar, confrontational world has gone.

2. As agreed at INC VIII, the review should be facilitative, non confrontational, open and transparent.

But Egypt s attitude to Turkey and Iran would not be as confrontational as Israel would like it to be.

Eritrea, Mr. President, has always been confrontational and provocative.

In the spirit of non confrontational reviews, individual countries would not be singled out in the text.

Their strategies are unfortunately confrontational towards other groups with similar purpose.

Some institutions representative of the State also adopted a confrontational attitude.

25. The draft review report, written in non confrontational language, would be provided to the Party being reviewed for comment.

The presence of the gun may have led to tougher, more confrontational words.

In this volatile environment, reverting to a confrontational relationship with Israel would be extremely dangerous, inviting the risk of another disastrous war.

Critical mass may be harder to achieve with the word atheist than with the word non theist, or some other non confrontational word.

But the administration s confrontational approach is failing, because it is precisely what Iran s rulers want.

In various international forums we often discuss the specific challenges of the post confrontational world.

One delegation from Central and Eastern Europe pointed out the important reciprocal advantages that could be generated by cooperative, non confrontational relationships with transnational corporations.

Last year demonstrated the great potential for drama inherent in the post confrontational and post communist world.

The international climate is now potentially less confrontational and more conducive to constructive dialogue and concrete action.

Faced with the threat of financial sanctions, Iran s political elite is increasingly realizing the price of its confrontational course.

The pragmatic and non confrontational approach implicit in those reforms has facilitated the search for convergence and consensus building.

They nevertheless offer a way of bringing together the parties to disputes in a constructive and non confrontational framework.

They nevertheless offer a way of bringing together the parties to disputes in a constructive and non confrontational framework.

There appears to be a growing willingness on the part of Governments to discuss old and new problems of international security in a much more cooperative and non confrontational manner.

Whether or not their relationship is in fact neighborly, rather than tense and confrontational, is of critical importance to both.

He regretted that the European Union, in its resolution, had decided to join the confrontational stance of the United States.

The United States was prepared to cooperate in drafting a non confrontational resolution reflecting the new realities all countries faced.

That is a grave oversight, for it is clear that Russian foreign policy has again taken a provocative and confrontational turn.

Quite often in confrontational situations, people and politicians create a zero sum game culture, which results in authoritarian and militaristic leadership.

The preceding vote had already created a confrontational atmosphere that would persist during discussions about the reform of human rights mechanisms.

We are prepared in principle to take a flexible, non confrontational approach and to remain open with regard to many issues.

The confrontational relationship between these two peoples blinded by hatred is summarized in the 45 years of tears, pain and death.

The videotape, however, showed an orderly demonstration, completely lacking in any act or threat of confrontational harassment of any Cuban employee.

At least so far, security relations between South Korea and Japan, both US allies, and China have been more or less confrontational.

But, in August 2010, just days after taking office, Santos abandoned Uribe s confrontational attitude and worked to normalize relations with Colombia s neighbors.

My delegation urges all concerned to begin considering less confrontational and militaristic approaches to the resolution of the conflict in that country.

He observed that the phrase quot new legal order quot was preferable to a phrase such as quot post confrontational period quot .

Signs of change in Russian foreign policy have been mounting ever since President Vladimir Putin delivered a confrontational speech in Munich last February.

A confrontational US approach toward China, moreover, would imply an additional destabilizing factor Japan might become much bolder than necessary in its foreign policy.

For example, Ecuador, under a Chávez allied government led by President Rafael Correa, has not adopted Venezuela s openly confrontational model of relations with the US.

Protest organizers knew they would meet with violence from the Birmingham Police Department and chose a confrontational approach to get the attention of the federal government.

The United Nations had far from exhausted its possibilities in attempting to respond appropriately to (Mr. Ordzhonikidze, Russian Federation) the demands of the post confrontational world.

On the other hand, unless opportunities for trade and development are enhanced, tensions will build up and confrontational approaches will once again come to the fore.

The use of CSCE long term missions and representatives as a part of preventive diplomacy promotes a non confrontational approach to the solution of outstanding issues.

Of course, nobody would expect such a profound change to be taken in stride, but at this critical juncture we must not allow a confrontational situation similar to those in the past to develop, albeit along different dividing lines.