Sentence examples for more combative in from inspiring English sources

The House committee was far more combative in tone.

"If you look at the campaign statements, Romney has been much more combative in terms of US economic rivalry".

Behind the comments was also a veiled threat that the US remained the superior world power for now and its president could get a lot more combative in future.

After the warm and fuzzy tone of Mr. Corzine's previous commercials, this is the campaign's first attack ad, a signal that Mr. Corzine, who had avoided direct confrontation with Mr. Florio, will be more combative in the weeks ahead.

But he needs to be more visible and more combative in defending athletes' rights, even if it means prodding the anti-doping agency to act more quickly when accusations arise.

At the same time, in terms of its international role, this coalition, while expected to be more combative in Afghanistan, continued to turn in moral circles about whether its participation there is in a war or in "warlike circumstances," a more palatable circumlocution.

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Cannily adapted by screenwriter John Logan, this Coriolanus, set in a present-day Italian state, is spoken with great clarity by a cast that also includes Vanessa Redgrave, and the battles are viscerally thrilling, with the presence of Gerard Butler from the 300 franchise acknowledging that the more combative plays in the canon may draw in some action-movie 15-24 audiences.

The children's show aficionado and advocate of cautious capitalism of the first debate is a case in point, but even the more combative presence in New York on Tuesday evening doesn't seem like someone that would do women any harm (though he would totally hit Obama if he could).

Mr. Obama was only a little more combative than in his policy address Wednesday at George Washington University, in which he dismissed the deficit-cutting plan proposed by House Republicans as an attack on the elderly in need of affordable medical care and a tax giveaway to the wealthy.

But taking a cue from his deputy, Joe Biden – who opted for full-throttled attack in his debate with Republican counterpart, Paul Ryan – pundits are expecting a more combative president in this week's town-hall-style encounter.