Mother Judy was, of course, an international tennis player, but their dad, Willie, was a junior footballer, a fiercely combative form of the beautiful game.
How I resisted Carolyn's entreaties to work on the community board, considering such entities to be the most raucous, undisciplined and combative form of government imaginable.
The British director, last nominated for an Academy Award for The Queen in 2006, was on lightly combative form this week.
Yet women were not leaders in the antievolutionist movement, in part, because it was driven by a self-consciously combative, intellectualized, masculine form of Christianity: female antievolutionist crusaders like Aimee Semple McPherson were, and are, unusual.
However, if the HR department is combative or pressures you to take actions that seem inappropriate, then this too is a form of harassment, and you will need expert assistance.
The coalition is far from a united front, and other members are more combative: the chef Jimmy Bradley (of the Red Cat in Chelsea), who received two stars from the Times and likes to make biscuits with shortening, advocated a form of civil disobedience, suggesting the notion of a Crisco speakeasy.
Predictions are a low form of journalism, but I'd predict this: Obama's speech last night — and, yes, the contrast between his performance and Sarah Palin's combative videotape — will remind a lot of people why they voted for him in the first place, and his chances of keeping the White House will be enhanced to a significant degree.
These combative art forms suited his style flamboyant and vaudevillian.
On screen though, they portrayed combative, fully formed characters.
These authors identify four major forms of political violence: structural, repressive, reactive, and combative.
These forms of conflict describe situations of political violence varying from imposed societal inequities in resources and power (structural political violence), to the processes of militarization and war (combative political violence).
