Sentence examples for combative discussions from inspiring English sources

While there are hints of trauma in James's character's past, and whiffs of Mercurio's old acerbity in the combative discussions between Claire Skinner's trauma team leader and Peter Sullivan's head of emergency medicine, Critical's eye remains firmly on the patient.

In the face of difficult, even combative discussions about the design and location of memorials, some even voice the fear that the very memorials they hope will unite a community around its grief have actually become divisive and alienating, an unseemly airing of local political laundry.

And then the political story of a lifetime came crashing through the door, creating what talk show producers say will be not only fertile ground for an immediate frenzy of combative discussions but a potentially polarized political landscape that could feed ratings for four years.

This was the subject of a combative discussion this week at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Stern got into a combative discussion with a reporter who asked about low attendance figures and the empty seats in some of the league's arenas.

Philosophical where Dawkins is scientific and Hitchens is worldly, these essays are combative spurs to discussion, requiring believers and non-believers to step up to the mark and engage in thorough self-enquiry.

For the next few hours, the men engaged in a combative and highly charged discussion.

No doubt these discussions will reflect the less combative environment we have created, and will hopefully be more fruitful as a result.

New Jersey's two main candidates for United States Senate met last night for their only broadcast television debate, and their 60-minute discussion was packed with enough combative exchanges and impromptu jibes to fuel an entire campaign.

He also was not the pushy CEO who commandeered the first debate or the combative sparring partner of Debate 2. From the first minute in this discussion of foreign policy, President Obama tried to pick a fight, but Romney was just ducking punches.

She didn't mean anything combative by it, but when 2016 Oregon Superintendent of the Year Heidi Sipe wrapped up a discussion, the "Role of After-School Programs" at the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, her words were jolting.