Sentence examples for as a more combative from inspiring English sources

Heath himself won the 1965 contest partly because he was sold as a more combative leader than his main rival, Reginald Maudling - as the kind of "classless" and "abrasive" leader that the party would need to take on Harold Wilson.

Wapshott brings out their mutual attraction in personal relations and intellectual interests, while structuring his book around a prolonged duel between the two men, each with supporters ready to act as seconds in a more combative spirit than the principals.

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

Donnelly, a state assemblyman from San Bernardino County and former Minuteman border patrol leader, struck a more combative tone as he championed the tenets of the tea party.

Mr. Warren' smooth manner, distinguished good looks and enthusiastic Americanism probably made the court's controversial rulings more palatable to the public at large than then might have been with a more combative man as chief justice.

The government investigation into ImClone Systems took a more combative tone yesterday as a spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee suggested that ImClone's former chief executive, Samuel D. Waksal, had not been truthful during an interview with committee investigators and raised the prospect of further criminal charges.

As production starts to rise, workers have adopted a more combative stance and they rejected the pay offer outright at a meeting late Tuesday.

The Guardian, which leans left and used to see itself as the voice of Britain's socially conscious middle class, has struck a more combative tone in the last few years.

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

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

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