8. Clips of Christie's combative encounters with hecklers are a massive hit on YouTube.
Her aunt Nadia features, too, "out immigrant-ing the immigrants" in combative encounters at the school gate.
Much as the journalists have complained about him, though, they did not welcome word that they would cease having their combative encounters with him every day.
While participants expressed dismay at levels of discord and conflict, these combative, unanticipated encounters generated the most enduring legacies, including women's networks across the global south, greater attention to the intersectionalities of marginalization, and the arrival of women's micro-credit on the development scene.
Senator John McCain used the final debate of the presidential election on Wednesday night to raise persistent and pointed questions about Senator Barack Obama's character, judgment and policy prescriptions in a session that was by far the most spirited and combative of their encounters this fall.
Nice ignores the innately combative nature of such encounters.
Alternately gruff and jocular, and trading on his reputation for combative face-to-face encounters in Iraq, Dr. Allawi gave a lively account of persuading captured insurgents to drop their rebellion.
Rodriguez, less combative than Bonds, may not encounter the same volume of hostility, but he is certain to encounter some of the treatment Bonds received.
Because, after a couple of weeks of calling and e-mailing Henry R. Lewis, Vantage's chief executive, the Haggler heard from the company's general counsel, Keith Nashawaty, who is one of the more entertainingly combative lawyers the Haggler has encountered.
But taking a cue from his deputy, Joe Biden – who opted for full-throttled attack in his debate with Republican counterpart, Paul Ryan – pundits are expecting a more combative president in this week's town-hall-style encounter.
