combative

Mr Uribe's reaction was characteristically combative. He asked Congress to call a referendum on the legitimacy of his term.

Your boy is bright, doesn't appear to be taking crack cocaine and is still talking to you, even if in a somewhat combative manner.

The authorities seem to have had second thoughts about encouraging more combative contests.

The president's tone was a marked departure from his usual, cool-headed demeanor. He sounded combative, and people noticed.

During an interview, he was sharp, combative and a bit relieved to be talking about things he knows inside out.

This was the subject of a combative discussion this week at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

The loser, turning to his opponent in a combative frame of mind, cried, "I'll take you to the Circuit Court. "

I don't say these things because I believe in the "brute" nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative.

Republicans appearing on the Sunday shows did not back away from Boehner's combative remarks on the debt ceiling.

Aside from his combative midfield duties, the Brazilian also took on the captaincy and the penalty-taking in a challenging campaign.

And Mrs Clinton is still surrounded by the same fanatically loyal and combative staff that she had in the 1990s.

As soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are around.

As you see, we are holding our wands in the accepted combative position, Lockhart told the silent crowd.

But speaking later to reporters in Ohio, Boehner struck a combative tone toward the White House and Senate Democrats.

One such discussion became so heated that a panelist wound up telling a combative audience member to "shut up" before asking them to leave.

He branded his new remarks as "Five Wants" , suggesting that he was replacing his former cautious position with a much more combative one.

A more objective view would say China did misjudge the reaction both in the region and in Washington to its more combative stance.

With a new, possibly less combative chief executive, some fear that Areva's independence may be compromised.

One who demonstrates an actively aggressive or combative attitude, as in an argument.

Jeane Kirkpatrick, a combative conservative, memorably excoriated liberals as the "blame America first" crowd.

In this combative book, Ann Bernstein does not deny that corporate negligence and wrongdoing has caused suffering and injustice.

Try disagreeing with me when I'm manic, and I'm evil; I become quite combative.

Although Ellison is famously combative and outspoken, analysts say the public vitriol is not mere bluster.

She believes that women are at least as combative as men are.

But no matter what the final conclusion of a disagreement, it's never beneficial to get defensive and combative with clients.

Gone is the fuzzy rhetoric about co-operation to boost global growth. A more combative tone has taken hold (see article).

The combative midfielder has made it clear he will not hang up his boots despite having been diagnosed with career-threatening eye problem.

My proud and combative father had been reduced to bouts of weeping as each new smear surfaced.

When Microsoft first entered China, it too had a very combative approach.

By instilling hope in a patient, we can help develop a positive, combative attitude to his disease. Illogical, unproven? Perhaps.

Some patients who receive the drug may become completely disoriented , uncooperative, or even combative.

Say to your coworker, "You've said A, and I've said B, perhaps we can consider solution C. " "Don't assume a combative stance, " says White.

"He was definitely a combative guy, " Segar said, adding that Zhu also recently accused the leasing staff of stealing his shoes.

She employs an almost combative tone at a press conference with Celso Amorim, Brazil's foreign minister.

Tensions between cyclists and motorists here have become dangerously combative.

By nature combative, the secretary of state Alexander Haig nevertheless embodied the national will.

Competition taps athletes' potential, making them combative.

Ms. Bartz -- famously combative -- says parenthood taught her the value of picking battles at home and work.

Some even argue that the more combative governors are harming the Republican cause nationally.

Underpinning this effort is a combative new memoir, "No Retreat, No Surrender: One American's Fight" .

The two prime ministers, Audrius Kubilius of Lithuania and Donald Tusk of Poland, get on fine, unlike their combative foreign ministers.

Video frequency demonstration: Dead Lin Songling displays fierce truly combative, the aggressivity is very strong.

The combative Mr Correa has treated his former supporters little better than he does foreign bondholders.

Butnow China has more worldwide clout, and public opinion at home hastaken on a combative (and sometimes downright jingoistic) tone.

A few corporate pages have seemed combative.

the combative spirit and the amazing physical attributes of the wrestlers.

What made this stand out was the combative Mr Zong.

Mr. Berlusconi has denied the charges and sustained an upbeat and combative public image.

Of course the book also tracks Mr. Jobs's long and combative rivalry with Bill Gates.

A tough combative player whose sole purpose is to keep the opposition attack in check.

Mr Obama is deliberative and sometimes vague; Mr McCain, forceful and combative.

Despite his small frame, Fyvie is hugely combative - but he is also full of skill and poise, which make him stand out from the crowd.

Tales of combative camels span millennia, from Herodotus to T. E. Lawrence (he of Arabia fame).

Jacob Wallenberg is a combative defender of multiple-voting shares.

As the title of Brooke Masters's new biography suggests, Mr Spitzer is a combative fellow. He can be admirably plain-spoken, too.

By 2003, management was openly combative with the media, saying Duke Nuke'em Forever would ship 'when it's done'.

Unlike in Paris, there is less of a tradition of combative, argued debate.

Don't make George Bush's initial mistake of trusting him; but don't start out too combative either.

Her indifference aroused perhaps his combative soul.

They suspect it prevents males from wasting their combative energy.

Things have improved somewhat since, but Mr Maggi still takes a combative approach to being told what to do by greens.

Try not to become combative and defensive when you are being criticized.

But the US-China relationship should be collaborative and not combative.

Obama has offered to ease relations if Iran tones down its combative rhetoric.

A combative Ms Lagarde said she and the French government had taken legal opinion and were confident.

They will have traded dynamic optimism, which always wins, for combative divisiveness, which always loses.

A more combative tone has taken hold (see article).

Striving to overcome in argument; combative.

So nobody applauded Mr Lukashenka's combative speech.

His politics can be combative.

The biggest one is Colombia's combative president, Á lvaro Uribe.

If a team in England has quality in attack, they can be very a combative team.

You will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused.

Now the gloves are coming off and they are taking up a much more combative stance.

There are plenty of reasons why Willie Walsh, BA's combative boss, can look to the future with some confidence.

He has been likened to Fabio Cannavaro, another combative player.

in these matches, A is very conservative, B is very combative radical.

11, forefinger pointing to each other: the sheer superiority and combative heart.

Zhou is much more combative.

"If they don't open the border, we will export our revolution, " blusters Isa Omurkulov, the combative new mayor of Bishkek.

he is inflexible , unbending and combative