Sentence examples for combative measure from inspiring English sources

Many hold that it is a combative measure, as Facebook's potential to use rich social data in order undermine Google's search business continues to loom.

Other combative measures pushed by the BPI include the blocking of websites such as the Pirate Bay so that UK internet users cannot visit unless they are using specialist software.

It is clear that the Argentine public is delighted with that combative, new-measure-a-day approach, even though the truly difficult questions about the economy have not been addressed.

As charming as he can be combative in almost equal measure, Murdoch was chief executive of BSkyB for five years – overseeing a transformation in the fortunes of the satellite broadcaster – before switching to oversee News Corp in Europe and Asia.

"Trial of the Will": In this, his latest article for Vanity Fair, Hitchens wrote of the toll that the treatment for his cancer had taken on his body, but concluded, "So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline".

For Ken Detzner — Florida's secretary of state and the man in charge of elections — the meeting's combative tone was the latest measure of the distrust engendered by the state's move last year to try to weed out noncitizens from registration lists months before the polls opened.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet "Trial of the Will": In this, his latest article for Vanity Fair, Hitchens wrote of the toll that the treatment for his cancer had taken on his body, but concluded, "So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline".

Reaction to last night's presidential debate has swung in favour of Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who appeared feisty and combative in contrast to a more measured (some would say weedy) Obama.