Sentence examples for combative tradition from inspiring English sources

Ames (Stephen Rea and Byron Sean McGinleyey), friends of many decades, are heirs to the combative tradition of the dueling sci-fi rock stars in "The Tooth of Crime," the battling brothers in "True West" and the scrapping paramours in "Fool for Love".

Politically, she is a throwback to a more combative progressive tradition.

She is a throwback to a more combative progressive tradition, and her candidacy is a test of whether that approach can still appeal to voters.

So it is not surprising that his corporate vision and blunt, sometimes combative management style have collided with decades-old traditions at the Smithsonian.

The New Wave critics usually expressed disdain for carefully devised (and in this case precisely written by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost) products of "the French tradition of quality" like this, but even the combative François Truffaut placed "La Traversée de Paris" among the best films of its year, alongside Bresson's "Man Escaped" and Renoir's "Elena and Her Men".

And combative.

Mr Brown was combative.

Not that he was combative.

He is not being combative.

She was combative and petty.

How combative will he be?