Sentence examples for markedly combative from inspiring English sources
Although Roger Clemens has been markedly combative over the last 14 months in denying that he ever used performance-enhancing drugs, he was cooperative when federal prosecutors asked him for a sample of his DNA last year.
Huckabee's tone as a commentator is markedly less combative than that of some of his colleagues on Fox.
With most votes counted, the results suggested that, one year after Britain embarked on its first experiment in rule by coalition since World War II, the fraying alliance between the Liberal Democrats and the dominant Conservatives would survive — just — but that its tone would be markedly more combative.
Mr. Xi urged both sides to "look at the larger picture" and "push relations forward," the Foreign Ministry said, language markedly more restrained than the combative statements from military officials and state-run news media since the dispute over the islands erupted last year.
His combative tendencies had become markedly pronounced, and before arriving at Jewish Home he was shuttled among several institutions.
Not that he was combative.
He is not being combative.
She was combative and petty.
How combative will he be?
