But when we teach Islam, students often come in with a combative posture.
That combative posture hurts all New Yorkers, who need a capable fire department that reflects the diversity of the city.
Trump signaled Monday that he will continue with the combative posture he showed at Sunday's debate.
It has been Ashcroft's combative posture, as much as the substance of his proposals, that has raised the emotional temperature on his initiatives.
The exception to the combative posture from the White House was on immigration reform, which House Republican leaders have signaled in recent weeks that they could be ready to entertain.
Mica Mosbacher, a fundraiser for Cruz's presidential campaign, said Cruz was at risk of losing support from benefactors who worried about his combative posture.
From the outset he went on the offensive, striking a combative posture and attacking media coverage as biased, intrusive, and tendentious.
And coming on the day of another primary debate, it let Republican voters know that Mr. Romney would take a combative posture toward Mr. Obama if he became their presidential nominee.
Trump took a combative posture with China ahead of the meeting, ripping the country for its ties to North Korea at a time when dictator Kim Jong Un is developing long-range missiles and threatening U.S. allies.
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.
