How To Use Combative In A Sentence

It ain 'fittin' fo 'you-all to say anythin' ag'in 'Dr. Morgan, whatever he may _se_-lect to do," asserted Bud, combatively, and Pink hastened to hedge. A Tar-Heel Baron
The combative midfielder said with a chuckle: 'Are we depressed? The Sun
Then whyever would one expect them to vote for the Republican candidate over Obama, who will then be the clearly more populist, combative candidate with working class concerns at heart? Dianne Feinstein: I'm Sticking By Hillary
Her haughty, combative approach did not endear her to the sons of empire. The Times Literary Supplement
His style was endlessly combative. Times, Sunday Times

The combative, moustachioed Italian is widely recognised as one of the world's leading experts on human fertility.
She is combative, not deferential, but not as effective as I'd like to see.
Its combativeness, its hostility to everything it perceives as a threat, works against it here.
The mood in the Garden to alien seeds is not concessive but combative.
Natural combativeness, an innate immunity to being cowed by the biggest names or the biggest occasions in football, is obviously a vital part of the equipment he carries on to the field.
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By turns crusty, combative and charming, Mr. Clements, who died Sunday at age 94, was elected to two nonconsecutive four-year terms as governor, in 1978 and 1986. Rough-Cut Governor Helped Turn Texas Red
It was also noted that when the young man regained consciousness, he became extremely combative, which is not uncommon with closed-head injuries. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
Her haughty, combative approach did not endear her to the sons of empire. The Times Literary Supplement
The combative midfielder said with a chuckle: 'Are we depressed? The Sun
A hot and impulsive temper was checked by the reflection that it was beneath the dignity of human nature to allow a rush of blood to the organs of "combativeness" and The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
ANOTHER battling display from the combative holding midfielder. The Sun
His style was endlessly combative. Times, Sunday Times
Then again, are the police trained to handle such cases that are obviously combative but also sensitive?
No, he's a combative midfield player. Times, Sunday Times
The dotted lines in Fig. 2 show the deficiency in alimentiveness, executiveness and combativeness. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
Interestingly, the first season puts a strong focus on the relationship between father Howard and son Ritchie, the two working cooperatively and sometimes combatively through the ups and downs of teenage life.
Her haughty, combative approach did not endear her to the sons of empire. The Times Literary Supplement
Delacroix based his combative, romantic works on the compound curve.
Criticising the work of such a combative figure is hardly a low-risk occupation.
What an insouciant sprite, a slippered marvel outside the combative gymnast Gareth. Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating
Still, their combative nature kept them in the contest. Times, Sunday Times
At first glance, the grace and poise of a ballerina seem difficult to reconcile with the combative and confrontational nature of the game of rugby. Times, Sunday Times
But her manner is unlike that of her combative, bombastic alpha male peers. Times, Sunday Times
Daniels is at his best when he's cool and direct, rather than combative and polemical.
His physique suits the combative style of rugby that the head coach wants to play in the international series. Times, Sunday Times
In most of our minds, he is a withdrawn, lonely figure, brave but enigmatic - scarcely to be compared with his rival, who was combative, a drinker and something of a wencher.
Its tone has become strident and combative. Times, Sunday Times
His combative style has pitched him against the bank's unions already, leading to a strike last year. Times, Sunday Times
Correction must be firm enough for the dog to want to work to avoid it but not aggressive or combative.
Be that as it may, what Marshall wrote about advertising has been cribbed by many later economists, and it has become orthodox economic doctrine to hold that "combative" - or "persuasive" - advertising is economic waste. Should Advertising Be Abolished?
If you said something combative, the person you spoke to is probably less than thrilled.
This combative style is not surprising given her background.
Do avoid the negative expression of the Warrior energy, such as combativeness and impulsiveness. Phyllis F. Mitz: Ask Phyllis...Astrology and Beyond
The Wall Street Journal notes Air France's terse statement calls the bluffs of both Alitalia's combative unions and Mr. Berlusconi, which has repeatedly claimed Italian investors were ready to step in but hasn't identified who those investors are. Pre-Parsing
His style was endlessly combative. Times, Sunday Times
In a pale grey suit and open-neck white shirt, Green revels in his persona as an old-school jetsetter, a bon vivant. - though he has been called combative businessman, even a bully. Thestar.com - Home Page
Beauty will not intrude on proceedings when the bell sounds on Saturday for a bout between two fighters, one explosively combative, the other composed and skillful.
Venezuelan president combatively defends 11-year rule and blames economic woes on western capitalism Hugo Chávez grants rare interview to western media
In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces.
His physique suits the combative style of rugby that the head coach wants to play in the international series. Times, Sunday Times
A 61-year-old former judge, Somchai Wongsawat, is known as a conciliator, in sharp contrast to his combative predecessor - and the protesters 'original target - Samak Sundaravej, whom a court forced from office last week for taking pay to host TV shows. New York Sun - All Articles
I was convivial when it praised me, combative when it didn't.
a combative impulse
The law-enforcement agencies suffer from a lack of combativeness. Financial Crisis Prosecutions On Wall Street Slow To Develop Despite Cries For Justice
Yet, if this 2006 cable is indicative, Chinese officials are hardly acting combatively toward Washington in Latin America and, indeed, are all too willing to inveigh against ChÃ¡vez in private in an effort to reassure U.S. diplomats. Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco ChÃ¡vez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements"
In 1971 he embarked on a managerial career that showed he was something much more than a combative player. Times, Sunday Times
View Answers combines hockey with magic combines Scottish ballads and Chinese mythology combines Minnesotans with Sidhe combines outstate characters with characters from the Twin Cities is written by the likes of us is written by the likes of * you* -- who's this "us"? features somebody's combative elderly relatives is any fun at all. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
As for comparable sports, bowling had eight times as many injuries as dodgeball, golf had sixteen times as many injuries, and inline skating a noncombative, noncompetitive staple of P.E. programs designed by forward-thinking educationists produced thirty-three times as many injuries. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
A combative, fashion-conscious mobster already serving a life prison term dodged a death sentence on Wednesday for ordering a gangland hit while taking control of a once-fearsome crime family. The Seattle Times
It follows, that the desire to be well must be excited simultaneously with any principle which shall be merely a modification of combativeness, but in the case of that something which I term perverseness, the desire to be well is not only not aroused, but a strongly antagonistical sentiment exists. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
His combative style at Newsnight made him compulsive viewing. Times, Sunday Times
Natural combativeness, an innate immunity to being cowed by the biggest names or the biggest occasions in football, is obviously a vital part of the equipment he carries on to the field.
The new party chief for Moscow was Boris Yeltsin, a combative apparatchik in his previous post as head of the Sverdlovsk party organization, but soon showing himself as an implacable enemy of the deep-seated corruption he found in Moscow.
The shock of dark hair, a feature of his combative approach on the field, has been clipped but he looks trim enough to bowl. Times, Sunday Times
It also ensures that inveterate political opponents have a reliable forum in which they can engage safely and combatively with each other.
Bolten's low-key, noncombative style has made his task a bit easier, especially when it came to asking the sometimes volatile Rove to surrender some of his power. Bush Pops His Bubble
Back then, his conversational style was combative in the extreme. Times, Sunday Times
The president combatively showed himself unchastened by the Senate's embarrassing rejection of his first choice.
At times she is combative, at times submissive, according to the situation and her state of mind.
His combative style at Newsnight made him compulsive viewing. Times, Sunday Times
Although it would then face other hurdles, most notably the greenlight from the Italian government that emerges from elections next month, getting Alitalia's combative unions on board represents a key step for Air France-KLM to clinch a deal. Air France Reaches Out
Born the son of a Sheffield gasman, his early life has shaped his combative approach to politics.
The announcement seemed aimed at assuaging demands by organized labor for more protection against imports while also tamping down labor's expectations of a combative new stance toward China.
Possessing an unslakable thirst for glory, a genius for seamanship, a combative nature, and a Gatsby-like desire to be recognized as a gentleman, Jones offered his services to the cause of American independence.
Modric to be the playmaker, but he cannot then use two wingers because the back four would be too exposed by a lack of combative midfield players. Times, Sunday Times
The combative mockney is a keen footballer and hat tricks have been celebrated with less verve. Times, Sunday Times
Some families are more combative than others and, yes, it's normal for siblings to fight.
The inference from this characteristic, that he possessed what phrenologists used to call "combativeness," is not unavoidable, though such was the fact. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
Yet, if this 2006 cable is indicative, Chinese officials are hardly acting combatively toward Washington in Latin America and, indeed, are all too willing to inveigh against Chávez in private in an effort to reassure U.S. diplomats. Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco Chávez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements"
They were very combative, and very competitive internally and externally.
Marines engaging in their first combative exercise were often timid and unsure of themselves.
SANCHEZ: Senator Barack Obama after what many would describe as a combative day yesterday with Senator John McCain, already commenting earlier in the day about these record oil price profits. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008
“Rather, it is our position that use be restricted to only those situations where the individual is combative — sometimes called assaultive — or poses a significant risk of death or grievous bodily harm to the officer, the subject, themselves, or the public.” Taser Limits Urged for Canadian Police - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
But Bronfman had always spoken with more eloquence than most high school dropouts, just as he had always been more combative than most prizefighters and cockier than most roosters. LAST CALL
Even many who sympathize with his concerns find his combative style haughty and unforgiving.
But the famously combative president also struck a rare conciliatory note following his victory, as he appeared to recognise the opposition's growing power. Times, Sunday Times
The prime minister was in a combative mood, twice accusing the opposition of gross incompetence.
The Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective is also challenging what it describes as a combative attitude among software vendors toward independent and third-party security researchers. EarthWeb IT Management News & Views
This combativeness may have been a sign of presenile dementia.
He shows wonderful energy, putting himself all over the field to combative purpose, and he passes the ball well enough.
Yet, if this 2006 cable is indicative, Chinese officials are hardly acting combatively toward Washington in Latin America and, indeed, are all too willing to inveigh against ChÃ¡vez in private in an effort to reassure U.S. diplomats. Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco ChÃ¡vez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements"
They absorbed a lot of pressure, their back four, hard-working and combative in face of opponents who were persistent and pugnacious.
Gingrich was more combative than apologetic during appearances at three town meetings in his suburban Atlanta district.
The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena, where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other's throats.
His conversational style is combative. Times, Sunday Times
The subject of an aggressive international manhunt, the young man finds immense reserves of physical and combative abilities to wriggle out of any situation.
Yet the lack of a combative midfield player, or a leader, to protect the back four has also appeared an underlying problem. Times, Sunday Times
Fareed Zakaria argued the smart strategy was "nuanced, noncombative rhetoric" that avoids sweeping declarations like "war on terror. The End of Newsweek?
To generate combative, manic energy, they frame the entire world in dualistic terms of light and darkness.
Thanks to the possession of that spacious heritage, the combative and conquering traits of the Anglo-Saxon found a readier outlet on this continent in subduing the wilderness and overcoming the forces of nature than in fighting his fellow man. The Old Romance in Canada
Congress is in a combative mood.
We will not say that our dear little Mary rose in this condition next morning, -- for, although she had the headache, she had one of those natures in which, somehow or other, the combative element seems to be left out, so that no one ever knew her to speak a fretful word. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
On Sunday, Obama promised to make "midcourse corrections" to reinvigorate his embattled domestic agenda in the face of a testier American public and more combative Congress. Obama's India Trip: President Greeted With Grandeur, Tough Questions
It follows, that the desire to be well must be excited simultaneously with any principle which shall be merely a modification of combativeness, but in the case of that something which I term perverseness, the desire to be well is not only aroused, but a strongly antagonistical sentiment exists. The Imp of the Perverse
The combative, moustachioed Italian is widely recognised as one of the world's leading experts on human fertility.
So a strongly worded objective statement is moderated as "combative" -- but a personal attack goes unchallenged? Source: Clinton Camp In Holding Pattern, Waiting On Obama
But whatever effect the increasingly combative climate of post-war Britain had on most 1940s poets, I feel that Graham separated himself from that, and his course was neither reactive nor concessive.
Critics deride him as a publicity hound and his combative character has alienated fellow lawyers in previous class actions.
The intruders' violent ends echo the combativeness with which Trebor dealt with the world around him.
Footwear is in a seductive and strangely combative mood this season.
The romantics are moralistic, rebellious against the perceived dominant power, and combative against any who appear to stray from the true path.
Still, their combative nature kept them in the contest. Times, Sunday Times
The film is modestly and precisely made, but combatively, with genuine and not contrived feeling.
In the case of the South African mierkat, for instance, the female is generally more combative and more difficult to tame than the male; and it is the males who from the moment of birth watch over the young with the most passionate and tender solicitude, keeping them warm under their persons, carrying them to places of safety in their mouths, and feeding them till full grown; and this they do not only for their own young, but to any young who may be brought in contact with them. Woman and Labour
The focus is on those people actually taking part in hostilities in a combative role.
To label as combative this epic standoff from this morning's show would be to understate the man's pugilistic expertise.
The face is furious, the eyes popping with rage: Gerry Marsden looks like the combative bantamweight boxer he used to be before he became a pop star.
Policy wonks - like all politically oriented people - are encouraged to think in terms of combative point-making.
He conducted the meeting in his usual combative style, refusing to admit any mistakes.
While this received plenty of laughs, the combative chairman was not amused as will be revealed later.
Derek's face was twisted into a combative snarl, eyes narrowed in anger.
As for the Chirinaldo, one could never be certain what the massive heliox-breathers were thinking, except that their easygoing society was anything but combative in nature. A Call to Arms
It is issuing a report this week that recommends, among other points, that the United States use more "nuanced, noncombative rhetoric" that avoids sweeping declarations like "war on terror," "global insurgency," even "the Muslim world. Learning to Live With Radical Islam
To prove his point, the combative attorney general played a familiar Washington game.
At times she is combative, at times submissive, according to the situation and her state of mind.
The units manage fitness by frequent fitness testing, bayonet PT, combatives, and road march training.
You are noncombative, noncompetitive, and something of a pacifist. Blog De Ganz | Archive | January
He said he had come to know a ‘number of strong personalities there, combative workers, autodidacts, sometimes intellectuals’.
Current TV, remaking itself as a freewheeling non-corporate progressive cabler, is the perfect fallback for Weiner to play to his strengths as a combative and partisan fighter. Ron Mwangaguhunga: Why Anthony Weiner Should Sign on With Current TV
The third issue discusses the combativeness of the persuasive advertising in the common retailer channel.
Back then, his conversational style was combative in the extreme. Times, Sunday Times
In 1971 he embarked on a managerial career that showed he was something much more than a combative player. Times, Sunday Times
This city has been invaded so many times in history and been a ground for so many battles that it has become combative and untrusting in nature.
Law was a highly efficient, rather unimaginative, detailed administrator, given political force by a strong sense of partisan combativeness.
Modric to be the playmaker, but he cannot then use two wingers because the back four would be too exposed by a lack of combative midfield players. Times, Sunday Times
It was a stale response, but noncombative, and all I could manage just then. AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE
But the famously combative president also struck a rare conciliatory note following his victory, as he appeared to recognise the opposition's growing power. Times, Sunday Times
(CNN) - Most Congress members conducting town hall meetings this month have chosen a noncombative posture to deal with angry participants who disrupt the proceedings. Barney Frank goes toe to toe at health care town hall
He responded combatively in classical Hebrew, a language alien to the church.
His conversational style is combative. Times, Sunday Times
Political life is a combative life, with positions being tested and retested before they're taken out into the world.
ANOTHER battling display from the combative holding midfielder. The Sun
The combativeness indicated by the form of the head was accentuated by the conspicuous jaw, the firm, thin-lipped mouth, and the closely cropped hair and beard, already fading into white; but there was nothing rough or rowdyish in his manner or appearance. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
He conducted the meeting in his usual combative style, refusing to admit any mistakes.
ANOTHER battling display from the combative holding midfielder. The Sun
He was a brash, very arrogant, sort of combative personality, which got him into a lot of scrapes on the court.
We see this combative, supermasculine aggressiveness everywhere in the plays. Shakespeare
And with the coffee I am treated to a combative side of him I had suspected lurked beneath his benign surface but never thought to witness.
Fencing has developed over the centuries to become Europe's most refined martial art, and when one learns how to feint, lunge, parry and riposte it is possible to take this combative art to Olympic level.
The second most common criticism leveled against the rape arc is that Veronica's combative distrustfulness has gone from a winning personality quirk to downright annoying, and Buffy alumni can be forgiven for fearing that the show's heroine is being made into such an extreme version of herself that soon it will strain credulity that anyone would actually be willing to spend time with her. Archive 2006-11-01
Dressed in a golf shirt, his face the picture of bureaucratic indemnity,Mr. Wang faced an unusually combative news conference during which reporters asked why government workers had hastily buried a damaged rail car rather then preserve it for investigators (it made rescue work easier, he said and why an unconscious 2-year-old girl was found in the wreckage long after officials had abandoned the search for survivors (he called the belated discovery "a miracle. NYT > Home Page
The combative midfielder said with a chuckle: 'Are we depressed? The Sun
At the 1936 Democratic Party convention, FDR combatively excoriated "the privileged princes" of a new "economic tyranny. Obama's Old-Time Re-Election Strategy
Takaharu Ando, the combative head of the national police agency, has vowed to destroy the Yamaguchi-gumi as part of an unprecedented crackdown on organised crime. Yakuza chief arrested in Japan
But my last memory of that day is looking into the owner's box during the actual game, where DiMaggio was seated next to Steinbrenner, who combatively waived his arms during the game, as the Yankees went on to lose to the White Sox, 8-3. Paul Orzulak: What Joe DiMaggio Said to George Steinbrenner
My own clinical experience would suggest that the kind of informative factual advertising which the economists endorse is more effective, in terms of sales results, than the "combative" or "persuasive" advertising which they con - demn. Should Advertising Be Abolished?
The combative Canadian businessman summarily ejected him from the board, blackening his character as a mole and provider of information to the tabloid press.
But the famously combative president also struck a rare conciliatory note following his victory, as he appeared to recognise the opposition's growing power. Times, Sunday Times
Still, their combative nature kept them in the contest. Times, Sunday Times
Even within conservative circles, he has made some enemies, possibly due to what some describe as a combative personality. Steve Anderson: Small Gov't=Fewer FDA Inspectors=Tainted Imported Food: Thanks, Republicans.
Naomi Long for her speechcraft and fluent (and combative) contributions to Assembly debates. Slugger O'Toole
Balard competed for this position against the brilliant but unestablished Auguste Laurent, whose leftist politics and combative personality had made him persona non grata in Paris.
Now 27, his combative style has become crucial to Leeds United's title challenge.
The bravest, and the most combative and self-sacrificing of our comrades went into the Fighting Chapter 16: The End
While what I call combative hermits have previously relied on violence to get their way, their new manipulation of uncompanionable arguments has combined with violence to make people weak and dependent.
He brought a combative good humor to his dealings with the archdiocese.
His combative style has pitched him against the bank's unions already, leading to a strike last year. Times, Sunday Times
The shock of dark hair, a feature of his combative approach on the field, has been clipped but he looks trim enough to bowl. Times, Sunday Times
The combative midfielder had a cut lip and an eye so swollen he could barely see.
His physique suits the combative style of rugby that the head coach wants to play in the international series. Times, Sunday Times
Modric to be the playmaker, but he cannot then use two wingers because the back four would be too exposed by a lack of combative midfield players. Times, Sunday Times
Constable Kwesi Millington, the Taserman who seems to have more stories in his repertoire than Sheherezade, demonstrated yesterday how Dziekanski used it "combatively," prompting so many The constable didn't fare much better today. Progressive Bloggers
Its tone has become strident and combative. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the lack of a combative midfield player, or a leader, to protect the back four has also appeared an underlying problem. Times, Sunday Times
In 1971 he embarked on a managerial career that showed he was something much more than a combative player. Times, Sunday Times
I like the combative side and I enjoy a challenge but I'm a genuine player.
His combative language and his defiant shouting were full of bravado, and he had the large frame and muscular build to back up his boasts.
“But Tracy Stern supports multiple charities as well, through the umbrella of her Salon Tea company,” continued Ms. Snowdon-Jones, locking eyes combatively with her blond cohort. Oh No! Toe-cialite Nail Polish Clash at Philanthropic Premiere
The prime minister was in a combative mood, twice accusing the opposition of gross incompetence.
At first glance, the grace and poise of a ballerina seem difficult to reconcile with the combative and confrontational nature of the game of rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Shortish and slightish, he can appear spiky, but is more curious than combative.
Delacroix based his combative, romantic works on the compound curve.
This is followed by a narrative poem which combatively asserts the central role played by women (Eve, the Virgin Mary, Pilate's wife, the daughters of Jerusalem) in the Christian tradition.
At first glance, the grace and poise of a ballerina seem difficult to reconcile with the combative and confrontational nature of the game of rugby. Times, Sunday Times
Delacroix based his combative, romantic works on the compound curve.
His conversational style is combative. Times, Sunday Times
"This was not a person who was confrontational or combative."
Back in April, this kind of combativeness was new for Goldman. Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
A combative elfin gets a mission to snaffle a magic book in the country of Moria.
The prime minister was in a combative mood, twice accusing the opposition of gross incompetence.
Although combative in his ideas, he was the opposite of an ideological monomaniac.
His combative style at Newsnight made him compulsive viewing. Times, Sunday Times
In that combative battlefield there seems to be no middle ground, just the immovable solidarity of two irreconcilable forces.
No, he's a combative midfield player. Times, Sunday Times
But, in the end, the combativeness that stood him in such good stead as a politician cost him the job he loves, leaving him both personally and professionally bereft.
His interest is further kindled with the arrival of the balloonist's granddaughter, the combative Kate.
His combative style has pitched him against the bank's unions already, leading to a strike last year. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, if this 2006 cable is indicative, Chinese officials are hardly acting combatively toward Washington in Latin America and, indeed, are all too willing to inveigh against Chávez in private in an effort to reassure U.S. diplomats. Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco Chávez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements"
He conducted the meeting in his usual combative style, refusing to admit any mistakes.
That soul who is Kyu in the first story (and Kokila, Katima, and so on thereafter) is combative, imprudent, and prone to getting himself (or herself) killed; while Bold (Bihari, Bistami . . . ) is more comfortable in the world, meliorist and optimistic. Archive 2008-10-01
No, he's a combative midfield player. Times, Sunday Times
And you know, when you describe him as defiant and combative, I think that this is a really interesting case of where the video clashes with reality.
Daniels is at his best when he's cool and direct, rather than combative and polemical.

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