| The president combatively showed himself unchastened by the Senate's embarrassing rejection of his first choice. |
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| It also ensures that inveterate political opponents have a reliable forum in which they can engage safely and combatively with each other. |
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| The film is modestly and precisely made, but combatively, with genuine and not contrived feeling. |
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| He responded combatively in classical Hebrew, a language alien to the church. |
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| They came sheepishly and, at times, combatively, drawn by word of mouth: this candidate was said to put on quite a show. |
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| They again demonstrate their lack of philosophical astuteness when they combatively ask for details about institutions in Socrates' ideal city. |
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| Interior minister Nisar Ali Khan combatively shoots back that the airport attack was the Sindh government's lapse. |
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| Women, who adopt traditional masculine behaviours and behave combatively, often find that those behaviours are over-emphasized in the coverage that they receive. |
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| And he has combatively pledged to fight to defend the socialist revolution that Chavez, a leftist ex-paratrooper, launched. |
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| Cameron, and others less combatively, complain that Juncker is being imposed by a parliamentary coup, usurping the prerogative of national leaders to agree on the nomination. |
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| Soon Charlton ousted the more elegant but considerably less rugged Len Wills as right-back, performing combatively as the Gunners recorded consecutive fifth-place finishes in the championship race. |
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| There are unquestionably journalists who approach the pope combatively, hoping to catch him off-guard. |
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