Sentence examples for combative element from inspiring English sources
England's league at this level is as exciting as any soccer in the world, but with it comes a spicy, almost uncontrolled combative element.
While it's easy as a boy to revel in the toughness and the aggressive and combative elements of a popular figure like Wayne, for me it was the sense of honor, the loyalty, commitment, decency, and high standards for himself and others depicted in most of his films that I saw as reflecting my dad's view of the world and what we should be in it.
The combative human element of science is noted at the very beginning of Horace Judson's three-part Annals of Science about DNA, published in November and December of 1978.
Across the Internet, Ravi's written contributions tended to be unusually careful about grammar, and a little combative — with an element of teasing or insult and, sometimes, self-mockery.
Instead it is the physical element, the combative streak that, often, the English condone more than most.
He offered a peek at the "raw" elements of the show in an anecdote about his combative divorce proceedings with his former wife, Robin Givens.
The sensual courting of the forbidden and its attendant guilt; a paranoiac hunger for revenge; the double self locked in eternal combative dialogue; the concurrent fear of, and desire for, death -- these elements of Poe's work are all part of the mise en scène, if you know to look for them.
The hawkish elements in the game will want to see Dyke live up to his combative reputation by taking on the vested powers of the Premier League - especially at a time when the top clubs are about to reap the benefits of a new three year TV deal worth £5bn.
Not that he was combative.
