In more combative days, when Newt Gingrich was speaker of the House, the Republicans were perfectly capable of, well, shooting themselves in the foot rather than accepting any compromise at all.
On a visit to Tel Aviv, he likened Yasser Arafat to Hitler.Both men are more fiercely combative when they feel they have been let down.
The Wisconsin results are likely to increase the tension between the Democratic campaigns at a time when the race already had been growing more combative.
In the Pursuit category, you have more combative stuff like Demolition Man that increases the damage you cause when you smash into other cars.
However, Euronext, like Deutsche Börse, has a considerably larger market capitalisation.The Euronext camp, which sounded rather combative when the Germans first made a move, is now more cautious.
When he came back from Norwich he was a more combative player.
"Tech guys love tech reporters because they're often rooting for them to succeed but when reporters go off that script and do something that's more combative I think it's jarring".
The timing of this latest deceleration in consumer confidence is interesting because it occurred at the point when the then-unresolved presidential election contest was getting just a little bit more combative than usual.
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.
But unlike Mr. Giuliani's emotional display of sadness and regret on Wednesday, when he abruptly announced that he and his wife were separating, the mayor returned yesterday to his more combative, and familiar, public persona.
