The Bush administration quickly labeled Benevolence International & the bizarre laundry list of other non-combative groups as terrorist organizations.
Katharine Viner, an editor at The Guardian, posted a snapshot of the cartoon online and asked: "What do people think of this cartoon in The Times?" Earlier this week, another Murdoch-owned newspaper, The Wall Street Journal ran a combative editorial saying that news organizations not owned by News Corporation were reporting so heavily on the hacking scandal purely to damage a rival.
(it is worth bearing in mind that the PBA is a political organization, and its combative head, Patrick Lynch, has clashed openly with Mayor de Blasio's administration for years now).
The GOP representatives on the committee, who are determined to eliminate federal funds for the organization, frequently turned combative, cutting her off and refusing to let her answer their questions.
The meeting startled many people in the organization, given its angry and combative nature, but ultimately the only thing Johnson said he regretted was that it became public.
Madore began his introduction on a combative note, assailing "the A.C.L.U. and other leftist organizations" for "forcing us to constantly apologize for our Christian heritage".
"The crime was committed by parties that were supported by Arab and Western countries," the Syrian Foreign Ministry declared in a combative letter sent to the United Nations and other international organizations.
While American officials said they did not expect Intelsat to suddenly generously open its doors to competition under a new leader, they added that they did think the organization would appoint a chief executive who was less combative.
To others, however, the stubborn, combative, sharp-tongued, media-manipulating, headline-grabbing Newkirk and her tenacious organization are something else--something akin to the Antichrist.
The usually combative governor took the high road, as he has done since his political organization orchestrated an upset win in a special election for an upstate Senate seat last week.
The Athens Union of Journalists, which condemned the silence of some media organizations in the face of the "neo-Nazi" threat to Greece, was even more combative, Reuters reported.
