Sentence examples for pugnacious stance from inspiring English sources
There's much of the man in that wry, pugnacious stance.
Russia's expansionist and pugnacious stance has precipitated a flight of capital that, even according to Kremlin officials, may reach a hundred billion dollars this year; the Russian economy is entering a recession.
In Mr. Kirchner, who has already taken a pugnacious stance against big business, in particular utilities and banks, foreign creditors and the International Monetary Fund since he took office in May, Mr. da Silva has found a staunch ally.
Rather than getting lost in a tangle of half-formed thoughts, Kennedy forthrightly portrayed himself as a fighter for universal healthcare, abortion rights and other liberal causes – a pugnacious stance enhanced by the fact that he was, characteristically, bellowing.
"Unless they examine the costs as well as the rewards of this kind of reflexive pugnacious stance, they run the risk of having the carpet pulled out from underneath them, regardless of the quality of their service," Mr. van Bever, the Harvard Business School professor, said.
That has increased the pressure on England to win and the buildup to the match in Lens has featured Gareth Bale's pugnacious stance towards England in which he claimed Wales were more patriotic and that none of Roy Hodgson's squad is good enough to play in the Welsh side.
Mr. Cook and Mr. Archuleta, looking embarrassed and mystified, appeared in prizefighting robes (red for Mr. Cook, blue for Mr. Archuleta), with matching boxing gloves and half-heartedly struck pugnacious stances.
It's no surprise to political realists that once Sharron Angle secured the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in Nevada as a Tea Party insurgent, she would soften some of her most pugnacious stances.
Moreover, the Republicans may feel compelled to take on even more pugnacious stances, as not compromising is the only way for a highly homogeneous and partisan group to convey strength and a winning attitude.
If Iowa is any indication, Mr Dean's pugnacious style, and his anti-war stance, may go down badly in the heartland.
