The Jewish settlers here — there are only 700 in the separated and heavily guarded center of the city, but a total of 12,000 around the area of 600,000 Palestinians — are among the most combative in the West Bank.
Ailes' readiness for a fight and need for control filters down to the Fox News' PR shop, which is the most combative in the business and functions like the opposition research arm of a campaign.
The most combative section in Mr Greenspan's paper arguing that monetary policy in the early 2000s was not a cause of the housing bubble is strikingly similar to a speech given by Mr Bernanke at the American Economics Association's annual meeting in January.Both men make three broad points.
The socialist, millionaire playwright would portray himself as a lover, not a fighter – but he's the most combative pacifist in British cultural life, with an angry opinion to declare in his spare, crackling prose on everything from the war in Iraq to... well, mostly the war in Iraq.
Political experts say the coming primary may be the closest and most combative yet in the district.
At a time when one of the most combative unions in the country - the Iraqi federation of oil unions - is steadfast in its opposition to oil privatisation, the Iraqi oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani is busy dismissing the 26,000-strong organisation as "a militia", "involved in oil smuggling" and labelling its leaders "unelected".
In the longest, most combative cross-examination in the trial, one of Mr. Muhammad's lawyers, Peter Greenspun, tried for more than 40 minutes to shake the foundations of Mr. Dandridge's certainty.
And some of the most combative national figures in our politics have been losing altitude ever since, much as they did after Bill Clinton's oratorical response to the inferno of Oklahoma City.
But it is also the case that British newspaper commentary is among the liveliest, most combative and sharpest in the world; that it is now seen by editors and owners as more important than reporting, at least as measured in the amount of money paid to commentators as against that paid to reporters.
In most combative, competitive environments, especially physical ones, the person with the most T wins.
The United States Senate race in New Jersey, one of that state's most combative and closely watched campaigns in decades, has thrown a few more voices into the political din, at least in the New York metropolitan region.
