Sentence examples for combative way from inspiring English sources

Lawsuits against New York over deaths and injuries caused by falling tree limbs open a window on the often combative way the city responds to injury claims.

"I am afraid you would have white students making fun of the way black people talked, and then blacks might respond in a combative way," he said.

But poetry affords her an opportunity to explore sexual behaviour and gender politics in a more personal and combative way than the plays.

Can we find a way to discuss a collective fear that we're overmedicating a generation of children without such polemics, or is it too late to frame the argument in a less combative way?

Some failed to heed the warning from Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey to leave; and, in his typical combative way, the governor called holdouts "both stupid and selfish".

In many ways, Homogenic, released in September 1997, was the sound of Björk retreating from the spotlight after the huge success of Debut and Post – albeit in a combative way.

Write an article exploring whether the reasons the terrorists gave for the attack might be countered in less combative ways.

Beyond the walls of Mr. Giuliani's campaign headquarters, his illness has appeared to pose an equally vexing challenge to the industry of opposition that he has inspired with his combative ways: How does one attack someone who has already been described in news reports as the "cancer-stricken rival" of Hillary Rodham Clinton?

Known for his combative ways, Emanuel should have no qualms about falling on his own sword.

The DJs move through genres fluidly, with techno, drum and bass, jungle, and R&B rubbing against each other, sometimes in combative ways.

There are enough real-life struggles of poverty, illness, abuse, so that we need each other in order to create supportive, nurturing communities, not invest in violence or commit ourselves to combative ways of relating.