Sentence examples for potentially combative from inspiring English sources
Given Mr. Trump's harsh attacks on China and his appointment of a leading China critic, Peter Navarro, to the new post of trade council director, Beijing is bracing for a potentially combative relationship.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's inaugural address may have irritated conservatives as much as it thrilled liberals, but opinion polling shows that most Americans agree with both the rhetoric and the substance of the most potentially combative lines in the speech.
"But things are setting up to be very combative and potentially problematic before this all ends.
And then the political story of a lifetime came crashing through the door, creating what talk show producers say will be not only fertile ground for an immediate frenzy of combative discussions but a potentially polarized political landscape that could feed ratings for four years.
Guns in the locker room ― where athletes are frequently in outright combative competitions with each other for playing time and potentially with professional sports opportunities on the line ― constitute a tragedy waiting to happen, especially given the social and cultural backgrounds of so many of the athletes typically involved.
A truth commission would have been a marked contrast to the combative style of the current tribunal, which has seen denials by anyone potentially indictable and even those ready to confess.
Increasing the Australian ire, no doubt, was their feeling that after two brilliantly combative days – and one when they appeared to have gone a step further into a potentially winning position – the English were on the point of completing an impressive recovery.
A non combative approach.
Not that he was combative.
