The Romney campaign's turn to a more combative message to attract a wider range of disgruntled voters signals the final chapter in the Republican strategy to recapture control of government.
Mr. DeMint, a product of the more polarized House, is the father of efforts to bring the lower chamber's more combative tone to the Senate.
Mr. Blair has benefited politically from the announcement of sizable new investments in public services and a rise in pension payments, and he has adopted a more combative approach to those in the press and among the Conservatives who criticize his desire to further the integration of Britain into Europe.
Yet he was in most respects a more combative presence to party officials whose dealings with him are recorded in the files.
He was succeeded as Scottish Secretary by fellow Lib Dem Alistair Carmichael, who was previously his party's chief whip and will take a more combative approach to the Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond, during the independence referendum campaign.
The study, carried out on 12,000 drivers in 11 countries, found that drivers who are more "combative" will tend to "see autonomous vehicles as easier agents to deal with on the road" than those with drivers at the wheel.
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.
Ms. Aubry was more combative and tried to be folksy, calling Mr. Hollande "vague" and citing a rhyming proverb from her grandmother, to the effect that "when it's vague, there's a wolf," or a danger.
Social media tools have encouraged far right activists to become far more combative and – persistently – attempt to insult individuals and discredit their research.
Just the same, the spot seemed to be in keeping with Dr. Dean's decision to return to his more combative instincts and fight back.
