In his eyes, Arles is a combative response to doubters.
The charges drew a combative response from the Brookses even before prosecutors announced the details.
Such is the combative response from Jennifer Walshe when I ask her if she thinks there is anything different about the way women write music.
Mr. Cain's staff posted a combative response to the development on Twitter, seeking to use it as a fund-raising pitch:.
The education secretary, Michael Gove, gave a notably combative response, urging the media not to give the violent minority "the oxygen of publicity", a resonant phrase associated closely with Margaret Thatcher's efforts in the 1980s to deny the IRA television coverage.
Mr. Spitzer has assailed that deal, drawing heated objections from 1199 and its president, Dennis Rivera — one of several examples in this fight of confrontational words drawing an equally combative response.
"Sometimes and, in particular, dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war," he told his party's annual conference in a combative response to the unease expressed by many delegates this week over his hard-line stance on Iraq.
When asked if Johnson should have been less combative in his response to Burk, the member said: "It didn't work that way, and the world is poorer for it".
Mr. Tenet was combative in his response to the panel's questions, telling them that criticisms in the commission staff's report were "flat wrong" and that he, like Mr. Mueller, had overseen broad improvements in an agency that was long depicted as dysfunctional.
If she expresses herself in a combative way in response to a hectoring lawyer or reporter, she is going to be disliked.
