Sentence examples for combative process from inspiring English sources

"It was a very combative process, but I open my arms to him," he said.

Malcolm's piece captures the many theatrical aspects of the courtroom, and she devotes a section of her story to the combative process of jury selection for the trial: Jurors are not supposed to want anything.

Hollande said it was encouraging that major emitters such as China and the United States, as well as developing nations, were all deeply engaged in the notoriously combative negotiating process.

A few cases where democracy has followed rapid growth, as in South Korea and Taiwan, did not occur automatically but as a result of a combative political process — and a far more violent set of confrontations between the military and protesters, trade unionists and students.

Until he deals with the Clinton question, it could be hard for Mr. Obama to move on to what he would like to achieve next: presenting himself to the entire electorate and not just Democrats, laying out his political ideology before Mr. McCain does it on his terms and trying to rectify some of the weaknesses highlighted by the combative primary process.

Their resistance has turned what could have been a cooperative process into a combative one.

It is the open intensity of the process and the combative mix of candidates that has given the 2000 primary election in the Granite State a distinctive flavor.

Big banks, by contrast, are frequently combative throughout the entire foreclosure process.

In remanding a 2005 case, Judge Dora L. Irizarry said the transcript offered "a study in combative questioning, which hampered the truth-seeking process".

Being informed both on the kid's progress and what the school is supposed to be doing lets the resulting process be collaborative rather than combative.

These forms of conflict describe situations of political violence varying from imposed societal inequities in resources and power (structural political violence), to the processes of militarization and war (combative political violence).