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.
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.
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.
Instead of continuing to press for appointive systems, some are advocating measures that would make elections less combative or that would limit political contributions to judicial candidates.
Saudi Arabia's combative posture — it said it would "respond to any measure against it with an even stronger measure" — left business leaders worried that their companies could become targets.
Where Earnest was usually measured, Spicer was brash, loud and combative, entirely in sync with his boss, who earlier in the day told an audience at CIA headquarters that he had "a running war with the media".
And really, even if all of those measures are taken, tackle football, given its combative objectives, can never be deemed "safe".
