Sentence examples for a more combative from inspiring English sources

A more combative tone has taken hold (see article).

Faced by a more combative, vocal audience, Darling was comprehensively outboxed, appearing wooden and incoherent.

The military custody fight comes as the administration is adopting a more combative tone.

In response on Friday, Mr. Assange was returning to a more combative tone.

Politically, she is a throwback to a more combative progressive tradition.

When he came back from Norwich he was a more combative player.

Her husband, who was an equal partner in the negative campaigning against Obama, sounded a more combative note.

Negation is no longer enough; to put to flight that sadist, Time, our militant emollients need a more combative word.

She is a throwback to a more combative progressive tradition, and her candidacy is a test of whether that approach can still appeal to voters.

The officials said the plot might indicate a shift to a more combative Iranian foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia and the United States.

There is no doubt that if Mr. Obama were a more combative negotiator, he would not have gone for the chained index.