Mr. Trichet has often had combative relations with political leaders.
Yale's history of combative labor relations continued under Dr. Levin, with two strikes by clerical, maintenance and service employees in 1996 and two more in 2002 and 2003.
He also admonished Blagojevich for his media circus and combative public relations battle with federal prosecutors, calling it an example of "foolish and unworthy tactics" deliberately designed to "de-legitimize" the investigation, the investigators and the two trials that followed.
Another e-mail was made public at today's hearing that reflected the combative state of relations between the government and the BBC, sometimes referred to by Britons as "the Beeb".
Since the 2010 arrival of the Portuguese, there have been frequent complaints about the team's style and Mourinho's extremely combative approach to media relations.
Forewarned by Mr Chirac, they will enter the Union in a more combative mood, complicating their future relations with France and its increasingly like-minded ally, Germany.The EU may yet emerge the stronger for all this, if the combative mood of the central Europeans emboldens them to push harder for policies that make the Union work better.
He has nevertheless been branded "Red Len" by sections of the media for his combative approach to socialism and industrial relations.
The mayor has threatened to veto all three bills, and his aides say the Democratic leadership of the Council brought them to a vote simultaneously after more than a year of committee review in an effort to portray Mr. Giuliani's relations with the Council as combative during his campaign for the United States Senate.
The documents suggest that Ortega became more and more combative toward the U.S. over Iran and relations became testy.
With relations between the United States and Venezuela already strained, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's combative president, accused the United States on Tuesday of spreading chaos in Iraq and expressed support for Iraqis fighting American soldiers.
