Sentence examples for close to aggression from inspiring English sources

The ambition she displayed on the show, since she was eliminated in March, has become something close to aggression.

By the bracing scherzo they were fully fired up with march-like exhilaration teetering very close to aggression as the Brahmsian drama grew progressively darker.

After awesome demonstrations of American firepower, in Operation Desert Storm in the first Gulf war, and then in 1996, when the United States sailed two carrier strike groups close to Taiwan to deter Chinese aggression, China felt that it could no longer depend on sheer manpower for its defence.

For example, the Task Force seems to ignore the fact that, in replying to a question about Chagnon's supposed misrepresentation of the Yanomamö as a violent people, Davi Kopenawa denounces Chagnon's characterization and then proceeds to give an account of Yanomamö aggression astoundingly close to Chagnon's (in AAA 2002a, vol. 2, p. 32).

He told the paper that boxing "saved" him after he took it up to deal with his aggression, having come close to "punching someone" when he was 28.

She explains that while growing up, she was subjected to physical aggression from people close to her, "so it was almost inevitable I'd get depression.

And Serbia, having been targeted and dismembered by NATO in a brutal act of collective aggression nearly two decades ago, remains close to Moscow.

In addition, we used linkage analysis to determine the likelihood of the presence of a strong aggression locus in or close to the genes in several dog families.