Sentence examples for more combative than from inspiring English sources

He sounded more combative than I've ever heard him before.

Bisciotti was more combative than Goodell, suggesting that people working for Rice were inventing cover-up stories in a bid to get the player's suspension overturned.

Just this year, the Republicans (John McCain versus Mitt Romney) have been much more combative than Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It is in the realm of trade policy, where foreign affairs and labor concerns collide, that Dr. Dean sounds far more combative than President Bush.

But the president was no more combative than usual toward the Republican-controlled House, suggesting that the situation is dire enough that it may call for cooperation rather than another round of finger-pointing.

Mr. Lazio was noticeably more combative than he was in the second debate, perhaps reflecting the pressure he may feel because of polls that show him slightly trailing Mrs. Clinton.

He said G.E. forced him to take a more combative approach than did G.M., Visteon and Delphi, where his union represents thousands of workers.

Heath himself won the 1965 contest partly because he was sold as a more combative leader than his main rival, Reginald Maudling - as the kind of "classless" and "abrasive" leader that the party would need to take on Harold Wilson.

Wapshott brings out their mutual attraction in personal relations and intellectual interests, while structuring his book around a prolonged duel between the two men, each with supporters ready to act as seconds in a more combative spirit than the principals.

They said they had also been hampered by internal differences; Democrats on the ground in Florida favored a far more combative approach than did members of Mr. Gore's inner circle.

At the time it was understood that the UK coalition government wanted a more combative figure than the mild-mannered Mr Moore to fight for the Union.