Sentence examples for combative mentality from inspiring English sources

B If we go with your idea of anticipating and engineering "a backlash against the backlash", we're back to a combative mentality of offence, defence and pre-emptive striking: everything Corbyn's against.

Ricardo Couyoumdjian, one of the most traditional members of the Chilean Academy of History, told me that the prevailing opinion among his colleagues was that in its 20th-century exhibits, the museum glorifies class conflict and a combative mentality.

At the same time, the West is apprehensive about the combative mentality displayed by battle-hardened anti-Communist dissidents in many East European elites, and both sides worry about the political schizophrenia of "old Europe" and "new Europe" that emerged over the war in Iraq.

And combative.

Mr Brown was combative.

She was combative and petty.

How combative will he be?

Not that he was combative.

He is not being combative.

Or mentality?

"Different mentality.