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It's a tad more combative on Way of the Warrior, an hour further south of the capital, on a project that teaches an ancient military code to boost your confidence and self-knowledge.

Mr. Thompson, who remarked Friday that he had "always been laid back — laid back when I became a U.S. prosecutor at 28, laid back when I became staff counsel to the Watergate committee at 30, laid back when I ran and won election twice to the United States Senate" — was clearly more combative on Thursday night than he had been in past debates.

In truth, health providers have been growing more combative for years.

Consigned to the second interview room rather than the main stage, he was more combative than on court, taking on inquisitors who wanted to know if his injury woes or just natural decline were bringing the former slam winner to grief in the fading days of his fine career.

Others in the party favour more combative assaults on Barack Obama's healthcare reform and his environmental concerns over the Keystone oil pipeline, which he is likely to block.

They ended with fervent endorsements of the abilities of the two men at the top of the ticket whose more combative performances on Tuesday are still being digested by the voters.

WASHINGTON — As the economy worsens, President Obama and his senior aides are considering whether to adopt a more combative approach on economic issues, seeking to highlight substantive differences with Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail rather than continuing to pursue elusive compromises, advisers to the president say.

While Daly insists there is no difference between he and his more combative predecessor on matters of principle, he readily admits that his tone and style are the polar opposite of Dobson.

As a result of the government's new set of demands, the fund decided to take a more combative stance, and on May 17 informed its investors that it was no longer fully cooperating with the investigation.

Yes, it's frustrating for many Dems to see this opportunity to seat a truly liberal jurist with a more combative judicial temperament on the Supreme Court, especially in light of the rarity of such vacancies.

But in curb-level races in far corners of the city, changes took place that amounted to a remaking of the New York City Council, an often-docile body that gained 13 new members — the most since 2001 — and is likely to take on a far more combative role in governing the city, and scrutinizing the Bloomberg administration.