Sentence examples for combative edge from inspiring English sources
This combative edge has stayed with the project throughout its lifespan.
His presence and combative edge ensured Chelsea were not able to command midfield in their usual manner.
His advisers said that combative edge was essential to blunt any progress Mr. McCain was making as he sought to encroach on Mr. Obama's trademark message of change.
As for the innumerable occasions when other people moaned to him that Johnny Marr didn't sound like, well, Johnny Marr, "No one likes to be dictated to," he insists, combative edge starting to take hold.
As Mr. Bellow imagines it, Broadside Books ("it had a certain combative edge," he said of the title) will publish books on the culture wars, books of ideas, books of revisionist history, biographies, anthologies, polemical paperbacks and pop-culture books from a conservative point of view.
Diarra is described as a player who is "strong, athletic and very powerful" and possesses a "combative edge" similar to former French international Patrick Vieira.
From beating World Cup runners-up Japan home soil – for the first time in Matildas history in eight attempts since 1989 – to edging the combative and highly physical North Korean team, themselves ranked sixth in the world.
His opinions, always combative, took on an ugly edge in recent years, especially on the subjects of immigration and gay rights.
The old facility, which was a homeless shelter for seven years before it was refurbished, had rough edges setting a combative tone.
· Part of this anger was a combative attitude to contemporaries, lent an edge by his chaotic life.
Greipel, who rides with the Omega Lotto team, edged Mark Cavendish, a wiry, combative Briton who had won two previous stages on this Tour, in a sprint to the finish.
