This controversial and highly confrontational show, which attracted the largest audiences the fledgling theatre had yet seen, provided a production model for Corner Theatre for years to come.

Bankers had complained that Ms. Cardoso's approach on the debt was highly confrontational and yielded few results.

But while the president's action resonates with this history, it is also a highly confrontational political act in today's circumstances.

Many analysts here suggest Mr. Collor's highly confrontational stand was intended to defuse future left-wing opposition to constitutional changes of the kind the Fund representative was advocating.

This is highly confrontational art, aggressive toward the audience but aggressive also in the relations it depicts.

The artists often adopted pseudonyms, and some of their music was "highly confrontational, making explicit use of racial epithets, stereotypes and threats of violence against civil rights activists.

For that reason in some cases cult leader's pictures were burned or there were highly confrontational interactions between deprogrammers and cultist.

But Billy wrangles his way in anyhow and tells his father, in a scene Mr. Gray films as a highly confrontational two-shot, that he won't back down.

Scottie McClue had, as analyst Mary Talbot observes, achieved "a degree of infamy as a highly confrontational talk radio host".

With the union, he could be highly confrontational toward management.