Sentence examples for eager for combat from inspiring English sources

He's willing, even eager, for combat.

When we met, Ramaphosa made a point of sounding eager for combat.

But Washington and Madrid seemed less eager for combat than Hearst.

Still, the current conflict, viewed through the prism of history, has familiar contours: George W. Bush, like Johnson, a new and untested president; Mr. McCain, like Kennedy, an intraparty rival with an ardent, independent constituency; bitter partisans on both sides; and a press eager for combat between them.

One was Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state for President Clinton and a statesmanlike figure who has stayed above the partisan fray, and the other was Mr. Daley, Mr. Gore's streetwise campaign chairman and the son of Richard J. Daley, the former mayor of Chicago, who seemed more eager for combat.

As Zulu troops could not marry until they had washed their spears in blood, they were eager for combat.

House Republicans appeared eager for that fight.

The White House and Pentagon were eager for the $162 billion needed to pay for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Eager for an opportunity to see combat, French found skirmishers in his path and ordered his men forward.

For every global concern, there is a philanthropic group eager to combat it.

The few outside witnesses who appeared were eager to combat radical extremism, not defend it.