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Example sentences for: combative

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Typically such behaviors are discussed within the context of restraint use, but behavioral problems are not limited to combative behaviors, which necessitate restraint.
In short, China's "distinctive" edge lies in combative, Machiavellian, mud-slinging, blustery, self-righteous politicians.
2) Johnny Isakson, a former Republican state legislator, won the special election for Newt Gingrich's House seat . The media had a field day contrasting the "moderate" Isakson with the "combative" Gingrich, noting that Democrats "see Isakson as a pleasant change" and that Isakson thrashed second-place finisher Christina Jeffrey, the historian whom Gingrich had fired in 1995 over her comments on the Holocaust.
"To the inexpert," he writes in one place, "footnotes look like deep root systems, solid and fixed; to the connoisseur, however, they reveal themselves as anthills, swarming with constructive and combative activity."
According to the WP , senators went out of their way on Sunday chat show appearances to appear less partisan and less combative than their House counterparts had seemed when they had the impeachment ball in their court.