Sentence examples for a combative one from inspiring English sources

The hires are another signal that the 2008 primary campaign could be a combative one all around.

Here's another politically correct and therefore politically loaded term, I thought, and a combative one at that.

It's a lot easier to do both with a galvanizing message that makes voters feel part of a larger project — be it an uplifting project or a combative one.

Their resistance has turned what could have been a cooperative process into a combative one.

Do not change your attitude into a combative one, if the officer does not let you go and he decides to write you up a ticket.

Hitchens has based his career on being a gadfly, and he's an articulate, combative one who is widely read and noticed.

Nor was he a boring presence, but rather a singular and sometimes combative one.

This is a 10-point scale with four levels of anxiety or agitation (+1 restless to +4 combative), one level representing an alert and calm state (0), and five levels of sedation (-5 = nonarousable to -1 = drowsy).

Coming from an Irish-Scottish aristocratic family, she lived mainly in France, was bisexual and, when necessary, was a combative figure: one of the richest episodes shows her engaging in a fierce dispute with Le Corbusier, who jealously vandalised E1027 by drawing, while stark naked, a series of faintly obscene doodles on its walls.

The friendships shown in Accidental Courtesy are a bit cozy, and the film's best scene is also its most combative one.

This is a 10-point scale with four levels of anxiety or agitation (+1 restless to +4 combative), one level of alert and calm (0), and five levels of sedation or coma (−1 lethargy to −5 nonarousable).