Sentence examples for combative needs from inspiring English sources

says Coe, who continues to reject Tory pressure to run for London mayor next year, obviously finding the equally murky machinations of sports politics sufficient for his combative needs.

Others along for the existential ride include an attractive young couple who speak of being consumed by sin (Tom Davey and Natalie Walter inhabit those roles as if on their way to a photo shoot); an anxious charlady (Ursula Mohan) who can be combative when need be; and a parson (Paul Westwood) who is all but hemmed in by politesse.

Clearly he is prepared to be combative when he needs to be.

Dunga's Brazil — more muscular, methodical and combative than it needed to be — is done.

You can do it with one person, but if you have a combative child you need help.

They were also out-battled in the middle of the field, a lesson for Gordon Strachan that his most combative midfielders will need to be utilised on Tuesday if he's going to match the Poles' aggression.

"We're going to be combative when we need to be combative," he said in an interview after the news conference.

Abaxis needed a combative sales guy.

Andrea Maulella's vivid portrayal shows us that Susan, a New Yorker whose unhappy past has brought her to this new job, pregnant and alone, needs her spiky, combative veneer to protect a tender core.

TAMPA, Fla .— Mitt Romney is heading into his nominating convention with his advisers convinced he needs a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters and to persuade them that he is the best answer to their economic frustrations.

"Mitt Romney is heading into his nominating convention with his advisers convinced he needs a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters and to persuade them that he is the best answer to their economic frustrations".