Influenced by the Dada artistic movement, COUM were openly confrontational and subversive, challenging aspects of conventional British society.

He wrote of the album " Baez gives a fine account of the most reserved and least confrontational aspects of the folk revival, presenting a brace of traditional songs ( most notably " East Virginia " and " Mary Hamilton ") with an urgency and sincerity that makes the listener feel as though they were being sung for the first time "

The New York duo Suicide played spare, experimental music with a confrontational stage act inspired by that of The Stooges.

The camera is always acknowledged, for it performs the raw act of filming real objects, people, and events in a confrontational way.

The New York duo Suicide played spare, experimental music with a confrontational stage act inspired by that of The Stooges.

By contrast, DAAS were belligerent and confrontational, frequently attacking topical issues, invading people's personal space and involving the audience in their act.

Those who adhere to a confrontational view of sharia tend to ascribe many undesirable practices to sharia and religion overlooking custom and culture, even if high-ranking religious authorities have stated the opposite.

Robert Blumenschine proposed the idea of confrontational scavenging, which involves challenging and scaring off other predators after they have made a kill, which he suggests could have been the leading method of obtaining protein rich meat by early humans.

However, the main clear goal was to have a " fresh start " after the confrontational Bennett years.

In recent years, Canada Goose populations in some areas have grown substantially, so much so that many consider them pests for their droppings, bacteria in their droppings, noise, and confrontational behavior.

In the main his ideas of a confrontational political framework have been superseded by K. B.

# A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker.

Her confrontational remarks have led state newspapers in mainland China to accuse her of provoking " animosity between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits ".

" I have responded to the request of the SDL party according to the mood of politics because I am fed up of confrontational and negative politics ," he said.

In the DVD commentary, Lurie explained the President does not have a confrontational personality, but relies on his charm to achieve his aims.

The organization has blockaded major streets, squatted abandoned buildings to apply pressure to have them be turned into housing, staged counter-demonstrations at celebrations, conducted confrontational marches through wealthy neighbourhoods, and crashed political events and meetings.

Their confrontational tactics have earned OCAP much publicity and notice from the public, politicians and the police.

Others have described some of the new songs as having " confrontational " lyrics.

All three are conservative on foreign policy issues and have taken confrontational stances toward other East Asian nations, particularly North Korea and, to a lesser extent, China.

Apart from the mass demonstrations of the " Orange Revolution ", the group's tactics have included the use of visually striking posters showing confrontational images such as a giant boot crushing a cockroach, and stickers with " revolutionary " slogans such as " Time to Arise !".

His name may be a reference to the confrontational conservative talk show host, Joe Pyne, but is equally likely to be a tribute to beloved World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle ; Joe thus represents the love-and-hate relationship many mainstream Americans have with the media.

The 16 books of the series describe the changing, often confrontational, relationship between the genetic descendants of two technologically advanced cultures, representatives of which have been marooned on a sparsely inhabited world and regressed to the level of the existing inhabitants ' primitive technology.

Some observers argued that this symbolic presidential oath might have been useful to the Yushchenko camp should events have taken a more confrontational route.

Helen is a regular drinker, and she and Jo have a rather confrontational and ambiguously inter-dependent relationship.

Their tactics are often confrontational and have sparked controversy.

Observers and the press have noted that some pro-Bush activists in the MAF entourage were aggressively confrontational and verbally abusive, calling the anti-war protesters " communists ", and saying they are " aiding and abetting the enemy ".

CCA have been described in the press as confrontational and much has been made of their members often being armed.

Thus, a week before the event, the Chicago Sun-Times said that the concert would have " the most overtly political theme since the 1960s ... It's a confrontational political event aimed at the government of South Africa and its practice of apartheid ".

In its early stages, Love and Rage enjoyed significant support from younger anarchist activists, many of them coming from the anarchist punk scene, and drawn by the paper's confrontational militancy and coverage of topics such as environmentalism, the autonome movement, and animal rights.

A less confrontational vision of scientific discovery is proposed by Adloff He suggests that hindsight criticism of the early publications should be mitigated by the nascent state of radiochemistry, highlights the prudence of Debierne's claims in the original papers, and notes that nobody can contend that Debierne's substance did not contain actinium.

Their appearance is less confrontational and threatening than tanks, and their size and maneuverability is said to be more compatible with tight urban spaces designed for wheeled vehicles.

His message can be described as confrontational and controversial, which can be related to the political climate of most of the African countries in the 1960s, many of which were dealing with political injustice and military corruption while recovering from the transition from colonial governments to self-determination.

Over the years Love gained considerable notoriety for her unpredictable live performances, distinguished by subversive, confrontational behavior and verbose interaction with the audience.

However, in some of the European and southern hemisphere contexts, confrontational methods of engagement are not always relied on, and dialogical approaches are sometimes advocated.

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

Live concerts from this period were often confrontational, and would remain so until 1977.

Less confrontational terms that attempt to reunite the interests of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transpeople also became prominent, including various acronyms like LGBT, LGBTQ, and LGBTI, where the Q and I stand for Queer or Questioning and Intersex respectively.

His eccentric and confrontational style did not earn him many friends and he had a difficult time finding work after his studies ended.

The 1650s, when the Friends were most confrontational, was one of the most creative periods of their history.

Alternately, the organizing model typically involves full-time union organizers, who work by building up confidence, strong networks, and leaders within the workforce ; and confrontational campaigns involving large numbers of union members.

Although born from the same history of Unix, Internet free software, and the hacker culture as the free software movement launched by Richard Stallman and his Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative was formed and chose the term open source, in Michael Tiemann's words, to " dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with ' free software ' in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape.

Punk rock lyrics are typically frank and confrontational ; compared to the lyrics of other popular music genres, they frequently comment on social and political issues.

's lyrics had been angry, menacing, violent, hostile, confrontational and aggressive, they typically denounced crime and ignorance, but the media began to blame the group for the incidents.

Bergler used confrontational therapy in which gay people were punished in order to make them aware of their masochism.

Within six months, two gay activist organizations were formed in New York, concentrating on confrontational tactics, and three newspapers were established to promote rights for gays and lesbians.

The GAA developed and perfected a confrontational tactic called a zap, where they would catch a politician off guard during a public relations opportunity, and force him or her to acknowledge gay and lesbian rights.

These albums went on to build a strong fan-following, but the group's confrontational attitude towards the press was increasingly problematic and triggered a severe backlash when Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, punched music journalist Jon Savage during a promotional event.

* In-yer-face theatre – a term for drama that emerged in Great Britain in the 1990s to describe work by young playwrights who present vulgar, shocking, and confrontational material on stage as a means of involving and affecting their audiences.

Musically and stylistically, the album saw Amos return to a more confrontational nature.

During the 1960s, the various unaffiliated Mattachine Societies, especially the Mattachine Society in San Francisco and the Mattachine Society of New York, were among the foremost gay rights groups in the United States, but beginning in the middle 1960s and, especially, following the Stonewall riots of 1969, they began increasingly to be seen as too traditional, and not willing enough to be confrontational.

Hyperactive, political, blunt, confrontational, insulting, flamboyant, and an unexcelled workaholic who was always demanding of others — without regard for rank or position — as well as himself, Admiral Rickover was a thundering force of nature and lightning rod for controversy.