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"combative" Definitions
  1. ready and willing to fight or argue

978 Sentences With "combative"

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"You have a union that works in a combative situation and they are combative," Ms. Page said.
There's a 'combative' perception of the campaign While Sanders rejects bullying, they say, he has readily embraced a combative image on policy issues.
Smith said an officer can use his or her own judgment on deciding whether a prisoner is combative and that he didn't train Goodson on doing so with a combative prisoner.
" The position requires "extensive knowledge of combative theft tactics.
Patients will be psychotic, delusional, combative and perhaps have weapons.
She then allegedly become combative with deputies before being arrested.
That may prompt larger males to adopt more combative tactics.
When she subsequently tried to help him, he became combative.
Mr Krueger did not come across as the combative type.
She then allegedly become "combative" with deputies and was arrested.
Both are big fans of the Trump's combative style. 22.38.
And that put me into a very angry, combative mindset.
The strategy turned combative once debate moved to the Senate.
Airbnb's reputation in the U.S., in comparison, is more combative.
Farrah's combative tirade continued when one officer took her wallet.
A conservative icon, Justice Scalia was colourful, combative and controversial.
Mr. Trump's campaign has been marked by extraordinarily combative rhetoric.
After Mr. Trump's combative nominating convention in Cleveland and Mrs.
Investors are signaling impatience with the president's combative trade posture.
Instead of showing contrition for his remarks, Trump was combative.
" The N.Y. Times and L.A. Times both go with "combative.
She became paranoid and combative, convinced people were abusing her.
Here's how the likely new speaker approached the combative conversation.
When asked whether he has considered therapy, Camryn became combative.
Most concertos have combative passages between the soloist and orchestra.
"Our armed forces will recover their combative character," he said.
Weiner's combative personality was both an asset and a curse.
But recently he has assumed a far more combative stance.
After a combative duel, prosecutors and defense lawyers exchanged handshakes.
Yet General Urresti's combative style in television appearances made him popular.
Tinder and Bumble have had a combative, twisting relationship for years.
He allegedly became combative with officers, was reportedly subdued by taser.
Not all Republican lawmakers have endorsed Trump's combative approach toward Mexico.
Oil workers in Santa Cruz are known for being particularly combative.
But Wu's form of activism can also be hostile and combative.
He was putting a proud, combative face on left-wing politics.
Bolsonaro struck a combative tone toward China during his presidential campaign.
To veterans of international economic affairs, this combative stance is baffling.
But throughout the evening, Biden adopted a combative tone that undercut
Keeping up the pressure is South Africa's fiercely combative civil society.
Mr Evers is turning out to be more combative than expected.
Can combative, aggressive Mars get anything done in intellectual, friendly Aquarius?
Combative New York lawyer Marc Kasowitz exited the team last summer.
I play in two hardcore bands, 49 Morphines and Combative Post.
Their talking points are trite, combative and often times factually incorrect.
They don't know how Mueller will react: Will he be combative?
The submarine is equipped to live up to this combative motto.
But in our next session, she was hostile, combative, and blaming.
It's a combative, unglossy track on an album full of them.
And-- the press likes to make it sound like it's combative.
McCain and Trump had a combative relationship dating back to 2015.
The Medicaid chief also had a combative exchange with Democratic Sen.
By the next day, he was in a more combative mood.
Here's just a sampling of some of Trump's most combative tweets.
Spicer's response was among his most combative, full of push-back.
All nine directors were on the line, including a combative Weinstein.
Combative Mars squares off with serious Saturn, and limits are reached.
It's a rough day, Scorpio, the energy is emotional and combative.
His former opponents warned Democrats against embracing a similarly combative stance.
If you're constantly combative, it doesn't bode well for a relationship.
Trump has had a combative relationship with his Democratic congressional counterparts.
During the arrest she allegedly became combative and attacked a cop.
Some figured the infusion of women might make politics less combative.
Had Collins been combative or defensive, he might not have lasted.
Speaking of combative, Facebook and Twitter, you're still not using them?
"He remained combative the entire time he was here," Whitney said.
Republican lawmakers' combative defense of the Ohio congressman could cost them.
This perspective shift will help rein in aggressive or combative impulses.
Their relationship had always been combative, their worlds grown cavernously apart.
This was as combative as his holiday was likely to get.
And here I thought brands were starting to become more combative.
She was at once combative, cross that she had been upstaged.
On Flavor of Love—and, to a lesser extent, I Love New York—she was combative and rude to the other houseguests (though not nearly as combative as Pumkin, the contestant who famously spit on her).
At this year's tournament, the stars aligned for a particularly combative final.
So at this point, a combative backlash is not off the table.
They also worried that McLaughlin had alienated allies through her combative tweets.
She became agitated, combative, and was gasping for air while drinking water.
And of course the nature of these cases is that they're combative.
Here are six takeaways from the most combative Democratic debate yet: 1.
Where Mrs Merkel was cautious and consensual, he is spiky and combative.
I didn't think of myself as a particularly confrontational or combative person.
Emerging from his truck, Williams became confused and combative, running into traffic.
Many of them were unfazed by Trump's combative style and provocative language.
Rivera was known for being combative, according to people who knew her.
When the role is executed properly, it is neither adversarial nor combative.
Which means future press conferences are going to be very combative indeed.
Republicans have only grown more combative toward Mueller's probe in recent weeks.
But apparently, this is more attractive to the ever-combative President Trump.
As a result, Uber was in a combative stance at all times.
About 43% said Trump's combative trade policies increased the odds of one.
President Donald Trump is striking a combative tone against the Russia probe.
It is the result of the president's rigid, divisive and combative policies.
"You need to prepare yourself for more combative tweets," Cramer told investors.
Both men do share a temperament with Trump — combative, adversarial, sometimes bullying.
The series of interviews, contentious and combative, did not go particularly well.
Mars is the planet of war, so the vibe could be combative.
The proposal has provoked a lengthy, combative discussion thread on Hacker News.
Like Richman, von Spakovsky seemed nervous on the stand, albeit not combative.
Its scale, composition, color, and message convey a sense of combative urgency.
This is a more combative role than the ones you've had previously.
In this district, my former opponent adopted Mr. Trump's highly combative style.
G carries a SOCP dagger, an acronym for Special Operations Combative Program.
But by then, the debate over Dreamers had already turned more combative.
He was cocky and combative, easily provoked and ready to fight anyone.
He admitted that a combative strategy may not be helping his cause.
These Times first reported in 2018, the  remarkably combative FAQ on the
Combative conference calls challenging the policy proposals of the chief Democratic rival.
There he has had a combative relationship with several other board members.
It was shaped by its founders to be brainy, combative and profitable.
When I called my landlord to complain about conditions, he became combative.
Buschow said Locklear was "extremely uncooperative and physically combative" with responding deputies.
He was introspective and pensive, eminently quotable and, of course, occasionally combative.
The combative showing came on the first full day of Trump's presidency.
Because he's known notoriously as being incredibly combative, as we've said before.
By all accounts, Neil Gorsuch is less political and combative than his mother.
But only Trump himself can really pull this kind of combative stuff off.
When deputies arrived at her home Monday, authorities said Sebby-Strempel became combative.
Who said enlightened democracy was dying in the combative cesspool of social media?
It retreats from the harsh, combative, hyper-political world, rather than engaging it.
He has been known to be combative with both employees and the press.
In its 10th season, the show has finally revealed Radziwill's more combative side.
She is combative and snarly — "small but mighty, like a dachshund," she says.
Police found Sanders outside the apartment building, "distraught and combative," the release states.
Yet Mr Ghosn and his combative new team of lawyers promise to fight.
Combative warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump cast a shadow over Sino-U.
The combative politician led the devolved Scottish government for seven years until 2014.
Because usually what you have on YouTube is this very combative posture right?
The move marks a further escalation in Italy's combative position on EU issues.
Sure, the news media is being combative too and it should be challenged.
How negative it is and how combative it is and how outrage-filled.
Abandoned by the servants, desperate for food, they become increasingly selfish and combative.
Ancient books use words like "valiant" and "combative" to describe the Ba people.
Combative Mars is lost in Neptune's fog, so please, Taurus, avoid paranoid thinking!
But with the president absent, the dinner has a different, more combative feel.
This won't end well for him if he keeps up his combative stance.
But she also took a more combative stance against her opponents, namely Harris.
Another requirement may well be a combative attitude, a streak of hardheaded resistance.
" It added, "While Trump was fiery and combative, Clinton was cool and collected.
But this was a more acerbic and combative affair than Tuesday's ideological slugfest.
From an early age through to my twenties, we developed a combative relationship.
Clinton and Democrats running for Congress are becoming a combative call to action.
But Musk's combative side doesn't just express itself in skirmishes with government agencies.
Other times, he was by turns sullen or combative, self-pitying or defiant.
Men in our society are expected to be loud, gruff, territorial and combative.
New combative newspapers appeared a bit later, like La Jornada and later Reforma.
This combative ethos has stood firm amid an assortment of insults and missteps.
He remained combative and was placed in a padded isolation cell, it says.
But the probes announced in various states were not equally independent or combative.
I came prepared for a very combative interview and Louie has not disappointed.
It was far from flawless tennis, but it was routinely intense and combative.
Rod Blum, a Republican from Iowa, faced combative audiences in Dubuque on Monday.
Mr. Netanyahu has a combative relationship with much of the Israeli news media.
They also recognize the Kelly in his sharp and combative attack on Rep.
Eliot Spitzer, the combative, progressive governor, lost his job in a prostitution scandal.
Unsurprisingly, "Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical" at the Met Breuer has a combative air.
Biden already disturbs some Democrats with his non-combative personality and centrist views.
The blunt and combative Mr. Wang is an old friend of Mr. Xi's.
"The audience is extremely combative," McCain said on WWHL of The View crowds.
Trump has had a combative relationship with the media since he took office.
But this time, the CEO of the agriculture equipment manufacturer was less combative.
The demonstration the next day and the ones to come were increasingly combative.
"Jim's a little more combative and Mark is a little more strategic," Rep.
What had once looked like a friendly administration has taken a more combative turn.
The main opposition's candidate, the combative former teacher Muharrem Ince, took nearly 31 percent.
Stephen Brown, 23, was allegedly combative and uncooperative when he was detained, officials stated.
But Kushner allies insist a new, less combative, more centrist Trump will still emerge.
Jürgen Maier, the chief executive of Siemens UK, chastised Johnson for his combative language.
A mere 24 hours later a combative email exchange between Musk and Tripp emerged.
It comes, as well, from the often combative ways he has expressed those positions.
Gradually, though, anger gave way to amazement as Strzok grew increasingly combative and condescending.
The defendants said the force used was "minimal" and that Hoard had been combative.
Combative and aggressive, her style mimicked Russia's increasing belligerence, both at home and abroad.
Sanders, who had been Spicer's deputy, initially had a less combative approach with journalists.
Perez got out of a car and became combative with Guyger and another officer.
Also at the forum, Buttigieg revealed his plan to counter Trump's combative campaign style.
Does that mean that the AI agent thinks being combative is the "best" strategy?
They may also lack coordination, be confused, agitated or combative or slur their speech.
Nevertheless, the House will be combative and determined to hold the executive to account.
And in the ever-combative Trump, they will find a willing deliverer of missiles.
And he's already squaring off with another combative opponent: the New York Daily News.
Trump has kept his foot on the gas, too, with near constant combative tweets.
Other essays, of course, are not that good, or are unduly condescending or combative.
" Then the self-awareness ended: "The only way you survive is to be combative.
They're filled with combative imagery, emotional honesty, and an earnest, no-fucks misfit perspective.
Trump has been known for his combative campaigning style throughout the election cycle.  Sen.
While it's calmed down on that front, combative comments from the government haven't stopped.
Saudi Arabia is being combative partly because of its fear of abandonment by America.
Studies show that true community safety is enhanced through collaborative not combative policing approaches.
After that came a combative town-hall-style session with an audience of voters.
According to a police statement quoted by Chicagoist, LeGrier was "combative," when police arrived.
" Christie, combative as usual, added, "Stop the Washington bull, and let's get things done!
Giuliani's combative style of politics anticipated, and perhaps served as a model for, Trump's.
President Trump must appear independent and strong, but also not too combative and aggressive.
They became more combative, and started treating me like an enemy, not an opponent.
Apple's combative stand underlines its anger with the European Commission, which said on Aug.
Rob Ford, the combative former Toronto mayor known for drug and alcohol abuse, died.
Nor was there ever any indication that he had been combative with the police.
But he eventually soured on his combative exchanges with reporters and his frequent gaffes.
The combative nominee was compelled to answer questions he clearly found embarrassing or offensive.
The lawsuit details a litany of combative exchanges between Sinclair and the Justice Department.
"That's when I saw they started becoming a little aggressive, more combative," he said.
As the event went on, the president became combative, visibly angry with the press.
"I actually want to do something that is, in a way, combative," he says.
Since then he's developed a record for being tenacious, partisan, combative and hard-working.
His combative stance initially attracted support from one of his main clients, La Liga.
Iran has recently engaged in combative rhetoric about its ability to attack U.S. interests.
"I think globally people argue differently, we're more combative now, probably," Mr. Warchus said.
Street clashes between protesters and police officers have steadily grown more combative and dangerous.
Others within the network's donor circle took a more combative stance against the president.
The lawsuit never materialized, but the threat was a reminder of Weinstein's combative streak.
On Facebook, which is bigger and less combative, they focus on censorship and governance.
It worked with the actor Charlton Heston during his combative presidency of the organization.
But it recouped its losses after combative comments from a Chinese central bank official.
Also — and not insignificantly — famously combative Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president.
When they responded, Jones became verbally combative and disorderly and was placed under arrest.
It's a combative conversation — she says things and takes them back, and so on.
Trump gave a combative interview to the Sun, a (Rupert Murdoch-owned) British tabloid.
His combative style earned respect from the senior staff who worked for him however.
I think it was a mistake to be seen as being combative in that way.
Nordstrom's stock rose yesterday following his combative tweet, ending 23 percent higher by day's end.
The President has captured the world's attention with his combative and at times vulgar comments.
And he is now more emboldened than ever to return to his campaign combative persona.
"@michaelgove One step ahead of you," the combative former Dutch foreign minister wrote on Twitter.
Combative and aggressive, her style has mimicked Russia's increasing belligerence, both at home and abroad.
But the combative, impulsive López Obrador has made way for a lighthearted, even comical one.
Ted Cruz didn't come up with this hard, combative and gladiatorial campaign approach in isolation.
The meetings are the latest example of the US government's increasingly combative stance towards China.
Akbar Al Baker, Qatar's combative boss, is not one to shy away from a fight.
"You never want the client to see you as combative," said another senior boutique banker.
They are certain to further stir a combative debate over whether organic foods are healthier.
The FARC has also kept up its combative spirit while funding restitution for its victims.
Like religion or sex, it's a sensitive topic that inspires divergent and often combative opinions.
Her combative approach sparked complaints from republicans that she was not treating them as equals.
Just watch out for combative communication on January 14, when Mercury squares off with Mars.
Her distinctive brand of combative politeness has earned her the nickname of the "ginger ninja".
When cops arrived, Captain Ortiz claims Anderson was combative and pushed him ... and arrested him.
Hironaka's combative style contrasts with the low-key approach adopted by the media-shy Otsuru.
And my Twitter feed was filled with people awaiting Trump's arrival: Would he be combative?
Erami says the interaction was far from combative, though others have not been as fortunate.
Krista was eventually arrested for domestic violence -- but cops say she became combative and resisted.
Another undisciplined and combative outing could raise the party's anxiety to the level of panic.
But when they returned to the trail, Trump's message was the far more combative one.
Kavanaugh was angry, tearful and self-pitying and highly partisan and combative with Democratic senators.
All scandal and debt are erased; Trump's combative streak is alchemized into Daddy's tough love.
But seemingly overnight, the relationship between ethanol and fossil fuels went from collaborative to combative.
It has been clear for some time that Musk is impulsive, combative, and increasingly erratic.
"Charade," the finale, is a spirited dialogue between trombone and orchestra that turns slyly combative.
It forced a contradictory image: a dangerous, combative, high-risk subject, gunless and running away.
Few took his more combative books and essays altogether seriously, though they sharpened the conversation.
Because of Acosta's combative exchange with President Donald Trump at his post-midterms press conference.
HOLLIDAY: But when you make it that combative, you have to wonder is it productive?
Mr. Lewandowski, 42, has been a combative and sometimes divisive figure in Mr. Trump's circle.
Reports about Trump's combative tone during conversation with foreign leaders have alarmed many in Washington.
James and Elizabeth's combative partnership was standard practice amongst female pugilists in the eighteenth century.
Mayweather-McGregor has hijacked combative sports dialogue through its sheer craziness, and it's getting tiresome.
While Huawei was initially muted in its public response, it too has become more combative.
The vast majority of analyses focus exclusively on ISIS's combative muscle in the physical domain.
The second movement, "Surface Tension," is more overtly combative, though often in a playful way.
If they vote against, they could face the wrath of a vengeful and combative president.
Some of the scenes that feature the author's combative mother have a tinny, cartoonish ring.
The relationship between the dancers remained fluid, shifting from platonic to romantic, combative to supportive.
It saved Republicans and Democrats from yet another political debate during an already combative campaign.
President Donald Trump took questions from the press in a combative news conference on Tuesday.
He can be wittily combative, most memorably in a brilliantly staged restaurant scene with Jerry.
Mr. Fagan said Ms. Cheney's high profile in Washington and her combative style are assets.
So if Sanders wants to win, he needs to be angry and combative and direct.
He's been happy and quite complimentary on Twitter of Trump's combative new approach to Iran.
The Republicans were combative, and their amendments were rebuffed in one lopsided vote after another.
You can be a friendly competitor or you can be a much more combative competitor.
For now, those pining for a more combative response from Beijing have longer to wait.
Speaking to journalists on Friday before she was led away, Ms. de Lima was combative.
Some of Jackson's concerns about Stone's combative social media persona seemed to be vindicated Tuesday.
Didar Janid, a deli employee, said Mr. Comello was friendly but had a combative reputation.
Hironaka's combative style contrasts with the low-key approach adopted by a media-shy Otsuru.
Mike, a combative, controversial New York billionaire is leading the GOP primary and it's not you.
That disdain shines through from combative White House briefings to President Trump's decidedly non-diplomatic tweets.
" Former military leaders told BuzzFeed News that Trump's words went beyond the combative president "talking tough.
Kavanaugh, though, mounted a combative defense during his testimony, and the president is standing by him.
Today, CNN anchor Brianna Keilar interviewed famously combative Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen and sparks flew.
Mr. Maduro has been combative after his party's bruising defeat during the parliamentary election in December.
As for America's combative president and his trade war: "I couldn't care less," Mr Xu declared.
Fat Boy's evolution from peaceful demonstrator to firebomb-throwing provocateur mirrors that of other combative protesters.
The relationship between Uber and Alphabet has gone from tense to combative in the past year.
Feminism may be notorious for its infighting, but that combative spirit has ensured its quick evolution.
She clapped back at sister Kourtney Kardashian after a combative Keeping Up With The Kardashians episode.
One common suggestion is that women do not like the famously combative style of economics seminars.
All of which is just another facet of the NFL's combative, and almost ridiculous, uniform policy.
" In the arrest warrant, Encinia said Bland was out of control, calling her "combative and uncooperative.
Employers grew more combative in fighting unions, hiring specialized consultants to help them decertify the organizations.
Giuliani and Bolton, for example, have both been closely aligned with a combative neoconservative foreign policy.
Officials dismiss the idea of following Mexico's example and adopting a more combative stance with Trump.
Just looking at their ruling planet (Mars) and element (fire) paints a pretty combative picture, right?
Likewise, the tone of the campaign has grown markedly more combative in the last few days.
Communication planet Mercury squares off with combative Mars on January 8, so watch out for arguments.
When police arrived she became combative and waved what cops believed was a semi-automatic handgun.
Take this episode involving Australia's Rod Marsh and England's combative all-rounder Ian Botham in 2384.
Ellison said the man was "upset" and "combative" when he was asked to remove his hat.
This is the kind of labor struggle that usually takes care of itself in combative sports.
He said his siblings were combative and could "not be trusted," reports local TV station KCRG.
Trump, who often has a combative relationship with the press, tweeted about the shooting on Thursday.
She appears to have emerged from the combative approach unscathed -- a rare feat in Trump's orbit.
The notoriously combative founder is attempting to reclaim his former position, Benchmark alleges in the complaint.
" The person added: "This won't end well for him if he keeps up his combative stance.
Meanwhile, the two militaries have adopted an increasingly combative stance toward each other in other places.
Halfway through this tournament he installed Renato Sanches, the stocky, ebullient, combative midfielder into his midfield.
In January 2018, he had a combative interview with Stephen Miller, one of the president's advisers.
By the time medical personnel arrived, he'd awakened but was disoriented and combative, the report stated.
Trump has had a combative relationship with the media since he entered the 2016 presidential campaign.
After all, that line is just one of at least a dozen combative salvos on there.
Trump has had a combative relationship with the media since he entered the 2016 presidential race.
Rob Ford, 46, was the combative former mayor of Toronto who confessed to using crack cocaine.
They egged on Trump to take a combative approach with the media, China, Mexico and critics.
Kavanaugh was combative with Democratic senators, frequently interrupting them or flatly refusing to answer their questions.
Tough interviews can sometimes obscure exactly how bad he is at this because they become combative.
He claims his driver was combative about following the suggested route because it included a toll.
There was nothing especially dramatic about it: no bombshell revelations, no combative exchanges, no emotional outbursts.
It's not clear whether that's appeased the combative lawyer, or whether his client will be involved.
The N.F.L., however, has shifted away from its combative approach of the last round of bargaining.
More unexpected still was the presence of the combative Fabian Delph and the enigmatic Riyad Mahrez.
Mr. Bernstein hardly looked like one of the most combative and powerful men in the industry.
Leaving the lunch, senators weren't willing to confirm reports of the exchange being heated or combative.
His style is far different from his predecessor, Josh Mohrer, who was known for combative tactics.
The hearings were combative at times, with senators venting that administration officials were dodging simple questions.
Mr. Lili, the City Council member, persuaded residents to unleash a more combative form of protest.
Nothing new there: Political leaders here tend to be colorful, combative and more profane than profound.
Mr. Trump's combative, hard-line style does not tend to go down well with those voters.
But he has since become more combative and last year unsuccessfully tried to revoke his plea.
Trump in listening mode seems a less combative and polarizing figure than at his campaign rallies.
Mr. Spicer, 45, is a fierce advocate for Mr. Trump and can be combative with reporters.
During a combative press conference, Trump strongly denies asking Comey to end the probe into Flynn.
Instead, Levin proposed adapting the combative spirit of "Celebrity Justice" to the pace of the Web.
When officers arrived at the scene, Huff refused to comply with their orders and was combative.
Biden also went after Trump's combative trade tactics, including trade wars with countries such as China.
It was that combative nature that had led him to start Vanguard in the first place.
Labor conflict is in his blood; his father, also a writer, was a combative guild figure.
Many Republicans condemned Democrats and the "liberal media" for promoting a combative tone against the GOP.
Musk, 47, is a combative personality and is often quick to attack those who criticize him.
The coaches, both combative players in their day, reacted differently when questioned by reporters after the game.
Last time McDaniel ran, the race became so combative, it resulted in one Tea Party leader's suicide.
Instinctively combative and fond of chaos, Trump usually digs in on controversial policies, rather than backing down.
That habit arguably served him well during the 2016 campaign, when his fans loved Trump's combative nature.
The frustration may well have reflected the increasingly combative nature of his own dealings with the press.
Amid the combative guitars and triumphant drums, there's something quite celestial about the undercurrents of this track.
In his run to the White House, Mr Trump promised a combative stance against China on trade.
Headlines of some of the most popular conservative videos on YouTube use vocabulary that is clearly combative.
Israel's combative and relatively unfettered media have long been one of the strongest features of its democracy.
And I get to the point where, I'll withdraw if it seems too combative or not healthy.
He was combative about everything we talked about and stood on a mountain declaring his many degrees.
Asked how he learns about President Donald Trump's disruptive and frequently combative tweets, the Ohio Republican grinned.
The world needs a way to tell whether President Trump wants to pursue his combative trade policies.
Women who I've spoken to this week described themselves as regularly feeling angry and "combative" toward men.
At times he was cutting and combative, at others he was sarcastic and even a tad funny.
No journalist was casually browsing Medium's "Combative Blog Posts from Multibillionaires" section and accidentally stumbled upon it.
The proposals -- and Trump's unscripted, combative style on the stump -- won millions of votes from Republican voters.
In recent days, Trump has taken on a more combative stance, people familiar with his mood say.
Alex, the always competitive and sometimes combative Marine, finally gets his one-on-one date with JoJo.
The jargon the gang-stalking community employs is almost combative, implying a desire for order and control.
Influential tech industry figure Robert Scoble has rebutted allegations of sexual misconduct in a combative blog post.
Mourinho reacted quickly to Herrera's red card, hauling off Mkhitaryan and sending on the combative Marouane Fellaini.
"My client denies ever becoming combative with the officers," said Mark Petroff, Smith's attorney in the lawsuit.
Some of Trump's worst moments have come when he has been factually off-base or overly combative.
It's hardly the first time West has found himself in hot water for combative, self-aggrandizing behavior.
" He added, "The U.S. likes to sanction others, whenever there's an issue, they'll use such combative methods.
When asked directly if he feels his Administration has been too combative, he makes a brief allowance.
As the hearings wore on, Mueller became more combative with Republicans, particularly when they criticized his team.
Trump has had a seesaw approach to China, though, following up combative rhetoric with gestures of goodwill.
Discussing this, Ullyot suggested startups should be prepared to take the combative legal route too, if necessary.
"It's going to be extremely difficult for Mexico to take anything but a combative stance," he added.
He's a straight shooter — brash, combative, and insulted that I've Facebook messaged him out of the blue.
Viktor Orban, Hungary's combative prime minister, will stage a referendum against the relocation plan on October 2nd.
During times like these, avoiding combative political conversations with family members can feel like the only option.
But could he be convincing as a more combative progressive, or would his reputation overwhelm his rhetoric?
Strategies employed in the first innings suggest he didn't attack enough against a notoriously combative Australian side.
Benoit Blanc as he investigates the death of Harlan, the patriarch of his eccentric and combative family.
The combative rhetoric framed Trump's tough new policy toward Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
After being arrested, police say Krista Glover became combative and unruly and repeatedly kicked the car door.
PEOPLE FEARED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA WOULD BE VERY COMBATIVE AND THERE'D BE A LOT OF FRICTION.
Trump's combative chief strategist was removed from the National Security Council Principals Committee after McMaster replaced Flynn.
It also signaled that he's willing to reward stars who take a non-combative approach with him.
The famously combative president will not want to be seen as surrendering in his confrontation with Pelosi.
The combative "pharma bro" has been in prison since 2018 but has not shied away from controversy.
Yet another factor is Jamaicans' combative individualism, the dark side of which is the country's chronic violence.
Rod Blum (R-Iowa) told a combative town hall crowd this week, according to The Washington Post.
Still, corners of the platform are so combative that Twitter's also somehow Fight Club for political opinions.
But the aftermath of defeat is one of the rawest and least malleable occasions in combative sports.
Just watch out for combative energy and arguments as Mercury squares off with Mars on January 8.
The judge vehemently denied allegations he sexually assaulted Ford during a combative and emotional afternoon of testimony.
At moments, Richman's testimony turned combative, devolving into something resembling an episode of The Jerry Springer Show.
Musk, usually combative, didn't really respond publicly to Banks except to say he had never met her
Both were market-oriented, image-conscious executives, as conciliatory as their father and uncle had been combative.
His combative attitude with the Democrats and the media on Twitter never gets old with me either.
The site attempted to marry its combative cultural approach to Andrew Breitbart's penchant for news-making scoops.
Mr. Trump has made a combative stance on trade a signature element of his administration's foreign policy.
The record opens with sizzler "War Face," which is like a sonic combative eyebrow raise and smirk.
Her questions during interviews — she's often the most combative questioner — are regularly picked up on cable news.
The front-runner, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has advocated a more combative approach to the Trump administration.
It looks like every area where the Americans and Chinese are interacting is more competitive and combative.
In an age of combative politics, you have to be a fighter to be in the game.
Trump has also praised Navarro for his sometimes-combative appearances on television defending tariffs, including this week.
The questions delve into Mr. Trump's most combative Twitter posts and relationships with his staff and family.
Before last year's campaign, he was best known for his combative stands on social and religious issues.
If the combative exchanges on Monday are any indication, those discussions will be hard fought and acrimonious.
President Trump's tweets on trade have been uniformly exclamatory, but their content toggles between combative and conciliatory.
This team may not provide the sort of defense the president's most combative supporters feel he needs.
Trump's third State of the Union address was his most combative — and also his most triumphant-seeming.
But Mr. Flynn grew increasingly antagonistic in recent months and hired combative new lawyers in mid-2019.
However, everyone wrote Trump off in 2016, and it's possible his combative approach could defy pollsters again.
McCann liked the combative element of the stand-up martial art, but disliked the lack of opportunity.
Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas was the most combative of the primary so far.
But before that turning point, Mr. Liu was already known as a combative and original literary thinker.
He was alert, conscious, and combative when he was transported to a local area hospital for treatment.
Matt Gaetz struck a particularly combative stance, getting into a shouting match with Nadler at the outset.
"I did not threaten the attorney general," an often combative Wernick told the committee later on Wednesday.
Viewers criticized her for her dress, her weight and speech and her combative manner on the stand.
And even without the combative Mr. Ailes, Fox News remains an organization willing to ignore outside pressures.
Nonetheless, some trade analysts say China has done a good job of taming Trump's combative trade impulses.
Asking someone what they mean or to explain their answers doesn't mean you're being combative or difficult.
When Malik became combative, the two walked toward a nearby gas station and got into an altercation.
Khosrowshahi has already apologized to Londoners for Uber's mistakes, marking a break with the firm's usual combative tone.
While Galarraga's lyrics still focus on mundane interactions, they read as curt in-jokes instead of combative screeds.
" He added: "It definitely goes into a strange, odd, combative but loving relationship — if that makes any sense.
He added that Trump's combative approach to traditional Western allies represents a "fundamental shift" in U.S. foreign policy.
Indeed, Trump's handling of the NATO issue may have helped tip Russia into a far more combative posture.
During a probable cause hearing in 2014, detectives told the court that Harris was combative with first responders.
Some opponents of Donald Trump are convinced his combative speech style is actually a shrewd form of propaganda.
Ciudadanos, the most combative anti-separatist voice, emerged as the single biggest force, with 22006% of the vote.
He has been ideological and combative, unafraid to abuse his executive authority and fully content to govern unilaterally.
Erdogan campaigned for weeks ahead of the March local elections, delivering up to eight combative speeches a day.
Even then, the detained passenger remained combative, reported FBI Special Agent Caryn Highley in a probable cause statement.
In a combative, strange event, Miller berated journalists who questioned whether legal immigration is really harming American workers.
Being tased, when it didn't work to subdue him, might have made Sterling very agitated and possibly combative.
But it soon became clear that his combative approach had uncorked a range of long-held American grievances.
Kobach, meanwhile, campaigned as a combative pro-Trump Republican, emphasizing his signature issues of immigration and voter fraud.
The big picture: "He liked the combative approach," said an outside West Wing adviser familiar with Trump's thinking.
A more combative tone eventually emerged, though Obama and Trump both sought to keep tensions at a minimum.
The arresting officer called Bland "combative and uncooperative" in the arrest warrant, but was later indicted for perjury.
But during his interview with TIME, Trump took responsibility -- sort of -- for the combative tone of his administration.
She had become combative with the nurses, and Salinas was asked to recommend a medication to sedate her.
But this is precisely the vision of CrossFit's charismatic, contrarian, and often combative founder and CEO, Greg Glassman.
Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea are rising after the combative nation's failed missile launch last week.
The shift to a more combative, boastful tone is tracking closely with Sanders' stunning ascent in the polls.
"Watch My Shoes" is all one verse of pure combative rapping, and it's a model for the form.
Ambitious, combative and publicly critical of the firm's recent showing, the former boss sounds like a tricky colleague.
The bishops passed over several candidates known as more combative conservatives, including Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill.
He has had an increasingly combative relationship with the media since he hit the campaign trail in 2015.
And he seemed in a particularly combative mood Monday when asked about the Yankees' struggles to get above .
How Pompeo will mediate the relationship between a distrustful agency and a combative president has already drawn scrutiny.
He brought in a combative media executive as campaign manager: Stephen Bannon, from the conservative website Breitbart News.
The UK House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has bowed out after 9 combative years in the job.
The combative politician, nicknamed "Wee Eck" (little Alex), led the devolved Scottish government for seven years until 2014.
Mr. Trump's legal team also has undergone a makeover, bringing a more combative style toward the Mueller investigation.
A combative champion of defense spending, he argued that the balance of terror inherent in MAD was unstable.
He's combative, maintains he is innocent of any crime and is planning for a career comeback post-trial.
In a combative Senate hearing, Mr. Pompeo said that punitive actions showed the administration was tough on Moscow.
It's a guy-gal dance in a parking lot that starts out playful and ends up bitterly combative.
That way George Steinbrenner could put Gene Michael, whom he considers a more combative manager, in the dugout.
She died in Florence, unrepentantly combative and eccentric, within hearing distance of the ringing bells of the Duomo.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump ventured to California, the blue bastion of liberal resistance, with a combative message on immigration.
The combative tone suggests that battle lines between the U.S. and the rest of the world have hardened.
Rather than ignore this conflict, Nauman explored it, and his work subsequently, perhaps inevitably, became darker, more combative.
Certainly in a lot of his clothes, there's an element of anger and a more combative, aggressive approach.
His 40-minute news conference Wednesday was a combative tour de force, careening between grievances, boasts and heckling.
Mr. Netanyahu, generally a popular prime minister, has developed a combative relationship with the local mainstream news media.
Dowd played the role of special counsel and posed questions to Jay Sekulow, who impersonated a combative Trump.
The two had a combative relationship, with Trump often publicly criticizing McCain and McCain frequently opposing Trump's policies.
The high-profile and often combative briefings inspired McCarthy's portrayal of Spicer in the show's most recent season.
Republican lawmakers are pushing Donald Trump, the most combative man in the universe, for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Pietists urged a renewal of personal devotion and a less combative attitude toward rival religious systems, including Judaism.
Communication between us took the form of combative, resentful emails — by far the most frustrating way to argue.
Democratic questioners are certain to ask uncomfortable questions about Kavanaugh's youth that could create defensive or combative moments.
The attorney general embodies the combative culture and conservative ideology that animate the president and the Republican Party.
More than that, and replies seem to be pointless and might come across as combative rather than persuasive.
The quest for justice for Holocaust survivors united lawmakers from both parties in a remarkably combative election year.
The first two hit Mears with pepper spray and batons because, the autopsy report said, he appeared combative.
The president is, therefore, being isolated from those who could help fashion more effective, less combative trade deals.
Experts also warn that combative criticism of leaders like Musk or Trump only fuels their base of supporters.
Rather, they are the white of avenging angels and flaming swords, of somewhat combative righteousness (also cult leaders).
For the rest of the interview, she's combative: "You said he made those comments," she says to Gupta.
After the campaign, Ayers helped found America First Policies, a combative political group that advocates for Trump's policies.
Instead, Trump has mired himself in scandal, retreated into combative rhetoric, and refused to flesh out policy details.
Around the world Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's combative stance with the United States is playing well with his supporters.
Rialmo told investigators that LeGrier was combative when he arrived, and fired his gun only after LeGrier attacked him.
Trump held an infamously combative press conference where he said that there were "very fine people" on both sides.
In the past Trump has praised Spicer's combative daily press briefings, which have become a spectacle of daytime television.
But if yesterday's combative press conference with Secretary Nielsen is any guide, that's not going to happen anytime soon.
Instead, the final debate's format allowed Trump to showcase the argumentative and combative debate tactics he is known for.
Accused of giving responses that were "defensive, evasive and at times combative", the commission offered more of the same.
It is not practical, safe, or reasonable to ask officers to seat belt combative prisoners in a confined space.
Musk's combative behavior during the previous earnings call in May and erratic tweets has even supportive investors taking note.
Greenpeace, a combative NGO, blocked entrances to BP's headquarters in London ahead of its annual meeting on May 21st.
Ball also said Gray was kicking and screaming and continued to be belligerent and combative when Rice was present.
Bringing these two combative races into MCU continuity sets up a huge number of potential plotlines from the comics.
Philippe Reines, known for his combative style and fierce loyalty to Clinton, is spending the weekend helping Clinton prepare.
But it was the prospect of the prosecution calling other women as witnesses that prompted the most combative exchange.
A number of Republicans in the party establishment have been the subjects of relentless attacks from the combative website.
The election materials are roughly spliced into flower scenes in a combative contrast of pop culture and artistic tropes.
For Netanyahu, the talks with Trump are an opportunity to reset ties after a frequently combative relationship with Obama.
But the dynamic of the meeting was different than in the past, when leaders often engaged in combative negotiations.
After the meeting, the usually combative Zanganeh avoided any comment that might be read as claiming victory over Riyadh.
Their music is warring with Vancouver, and itself, pushing the duo to make the music weirder and more combative.
PiS has yet to make an official demand for reparations but its combative stance towards Germany has strained relations.
The "friend-enemy distinction," for which he's famous, asserts that politics is inherently combative, everyone an ally or foe.
Late last year Muhammad Montasser, a pseudonym for the group's combative spokesman, was sacked by some of its leaders.
But that is not good enough for Fikile Mbalula, the combative minister of sport, who issued the recent edict.
The reality is that Cooper is much less likely to be directly combative with Trump than some other journalists.
The Republican Revolution, however, ushered in a more combative style of politics, and since then, polarization has spiked dramatically.
What would it be like if Mr. Weiner had been elected mayor, with his fiery speechmaking and combative style?
On Mr. Andrews's revolving set, Mr. Foster's Stanley hulks around, explosive and combative, yet somehow achingly displaced and vulnerable.
After sounding subdued if not downbeat about the race for weeks, Mr. Sanders resumed a combative posture against Mrs.
Where Marley became a symbol of peace and unity for a troubled nation, Tosh remained combative and politically militant.
The unrest follows the close and often combative White House race between Clinton and Trump over the last year.
The presidential hopeful's combative style revs up his supporters but also turns off many voters, especially women, Republicans believe.
Haskell has a significant rugby fanbase and 182,000 followers on Twitter who could follow his journey in combative sports.
Clinton urged voters to reject the divisive policy ideas and combative politics of the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump.
But Trump's combative first speech as president also showcased his intent to shake things up in the nation's capital.
The market turned out to be one of Uber's most combative and the first where it had regulatory issues.
" Bush said that while Trump's combative style and anti-establishment campaign attracted voters, winning is "not worth disparaging people.
One key question is how effective it would be for Trump to adopt a combative approach in the speech.
Along with Navarro, Lighthizer, the U.S. Trade Representative, is also pushing for a more combative approach to toward China.
Trump has long had a combative relationship with McCain, who is a frequent and harsh critic of the administration.
For many centrist politicians, his conflicting remarks about "revolt" strengthened their resolve not to negotiate with the combative populist.
John Kasich of Ohio has found a way to try to set himself apart from his more combative rivals.
Through Macdonald, Atlas got a taste of the combative discourse of the 1940s that had shaped Schwartz's intellectual life.
Beijing can therefore withstand the current pressure and wait for a new administration that likely will be less combative.
Mexico city club music collective NAAFI has been in a bit of a combative mood these past few months.
" Trump, in a combative mood, derided the FBI officials who launched the probe as "known scoundrels" and "dirty cops.
After interviewing the billionaire in 2014, Forbes' Abram Brown wrote that Weiner could also be combative and short-sighted.
WAYNE, N.J. — They were combative right from the start, armed with well-practiced barbs and bumper-sticker-ready quotes.
At Recode's annual Code Conference in May, he criticized Trump's combative relationship with the Washington Post, which Bezos owns.
In the moderate story, government has a bigger role than before, but it is not a fighting, combative role.
That suggested that far from tempering his stance, the president may project a more combative attitude in discussions abroad.
Many artists are struggling right now with the role their work plays in a culture that feels so combative.
Trump may be hoping Beijing will back down, but he needs a deal more – and Xi is feeling combative.
Mr. Dylan's voice is clear, cutting and ever improvisational; working the crowds, he was emphatic, committed, sometimes teasingly combative.
At a dinner last month, Tebas and Luis Rubiales, the Spanish federation's combative leader, failed to resolve the dispute.
If your temperature keeps rising, your central nervous system starts to malfunction, so you might become combative or confused.
Sean Spicer, the press secretary known for combative encounters with reporters, is struggling to match his aggressive boss's expectations.
What's remarkable is that he's been able to take that approach without coming across as shrill or unduly combative.
But the White House aide was said to have contentious and combative relationships with television news producers and bookers.
Sheriff Arpaio remained combative until the end, thumbing his nose at critics and turning setbacks into lines of attack.
Mr. Trump's travel ban, along with his combative rhetoric and internet outbursts, have directly shaped this year's awards race.
On Thursday, his question about the first lady provided a respite for Mr. Trump during a combative news conference.
He and Mahathir are "very combative, very old school politicians with deep roots in the rural areas," Chen said.
No longer an unabashed ambassador of the combative group, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has carefully managed her involvement with it.
Her campaign's emails to supporters struck a similarly non-combative tone in announcing their fundraising for the fourth quarter.
Frankel was an emotional, combative guy from Brooklyn who found his way to the horses through the betting windows.
As a result, she may feel the need to be combative with Sloan on behalf her constituents, he said.
Reporters at all levels in Britain still gleefully hurl combative questions at public officials when they have a chance.
She noted that hearing each other out is a rarity in the increasingly combative world of cable news panels.
Kira, Lauren, and multiple other coworkers said they believed in the message but felt uncomfortable with the combative tone.
The private meeting was a divergence from the combative rhetoric expressed by Koch network leaders during the weekend retreat.
Since hiring combative new lawyers last year, Mr. Flynn has sought to discredit the F.B.I.'s investigation into him.
Since hiring combative new lawyers last year, Mr. Flynn has sought to discredit the F.B.I.'s investigation into him.
In contrast to the combative nature of their public dialogue over the past three years, Jones praised Cormier afterward.
It will take money, technological leaps and a remarkable level of cooperation across the country's sprawling and combative bureaucracies.
Dr. Broecker could be combative and even curmudgeonly, recalled Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University.
During a combative campaign, neither Ms. Lightfoot nor her opponent laid out a comprehensive plan to solve the problem.
Warren has become an increasingly vocal critic of Trump -- a characteristic often prized in the combative vice presidential campaign role.
Wednesday's session was not as combative, but lawmakers repeatedly questioned tennis's ability to effectively police itself with its current resources.
If he's the combative protectionist who slaps fat tariffs on Mexican cars and Chinese-made cellphones, there will be another.
Freund told detectives that his wife believed AJ had "oppositional defiance disorder," and was always combative and defiant, documents say.
Vice President Dick Cheney was among those in the White House favoring Luttig, an uncompromising conservative with a combative reputation.
Sanders is notoriously combative with the press corps, often blatantly lying or just straight up refusing to answer reporters' questions.
Rhetorical whiplash On camera, Trump took a much less combative tone in an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday.
Now, for the first time, there is a rift between the two, over Mr Salmond's combative response to the allegations.
He rose to prominence in the city as the combative, litigious owner of the Sands Casino, and a political kingmaker.
But America sees its combative economic diplomacy as a belated response to decades of intellectual-property theft and other misdeeds.
Ruben Nunez, head of one of the most combative factions of Mexico's CNTE union, was detained on suspicion of corruption.
Her feisty social media persona and combative tweets in defense of her father have often pitted her against Sharif's rivals.
Bannon has reportedly been telling Trump to return to his combative ways that made him so popular during the primaries.
Sometimes it was the combative and hostile Trump -- quick to throw punches and go after his opponents with personal attacks.
Turner later told investigators he was unaware Williams was having a seizure and readied his Taser because Williams was combative.
Once I did that, I realized that it was easier for me to change my combative thinking in the moment.
Petro, a combative populist who was once a member of the now defunct M19 rebel group, supports the peace deal.
In a combative phone call with Fox News on Thursday, Avenatti said he had "no idea what you're talking about."
Still, this won't be an easy transition from his combative style on the campaign trail and in the first debate.
The facts of their lives are disclosed in no particular order, as the combative couple sort through the Pollock myth.
At the highest levels, games like Dragon Ball FighterZ are a combative ballet of reflexes, tactics, and lighting-quick calculation.
Trump's combative campaign is hurting Republicans down the ballot — but not enough to flip control of the House in November.
During the arrest, Heather allegedly became combative and attacked a cop, kicking 1 in the shin and striking 2 others.
Selmayr, whose combative style as Juncker's chief of staff divided opinion, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Varoufakis deflected questions from reporters about whether his combative stance during the debt crisis had cost Greece billions of euros.
Myrow worries that Trump's principal speechwriter for the trip will be Stephen Miller, who penned the president's combative inaugural speech.
The broadside issued by Viktor Orban, Hungary's combative prime minister, against 'Brusselian' elites was not enough to ruin the mood.
As the film's antihero, Weiner has a rabble-rouser's instincts and the combative spirit of a New York movie stereotype.
Cricket is at its best when it is combative and aggressive—and when all 13 players leave the field healthy.
The combative exchanged raised fresh doubts about whether Trump and Congress can avert a partial government shutdown by the Dec.
But those conversations became very tense and very combative, and that's not where I am as a human being anymore.
"The shooter continued to be combative once E.M.S. crews arrived on the scene to render him aid," Colonel Flaherty said.
The combative former leader of a coca growers union paved roads, sent Bolivia's first satellite into space and curbed inflation.
The establishment wanted a more cosmopolitan and compromise-oriented party and the base a more socially conservative and combative one.
The decennial redistricting process has been a combative political sport since the early days of the republic, when Massachusetts Gov.
Want to better understand what may happen in the United States economy as President Trump pursues his combative trade policies?
But the teasingly combative duets for Ms. Thomas and Darrin Wright, conceivably a stand-in for her brother, wore thin.
Nations like Russia, China and North Korea are advancing their military capabilities at alarming rates and flexing their combative muscles.
And in Ruth Davidson, the combative, funny leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland, Ms. Sturgeon has a lively opponent.
The man became combative and pushed officers' arms away before reaching for a weapon on his waist band, Waller said.
Clinton, 1613, urged voters to reject the divisive policy ideas and combative politics of the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump.
HONG KONG — A video game featuring combative little critters called Pokémon hits mobile devices, and millions of fans are hooked.
News of the combative approach within the World Health Assembly mirrored the Trump administration's posture toward other key international bodies.
That attracted the attention of a security guard, who said he had drawn his gun after Mr. Lochte became combative.
But Trump's combative response to Moore — the Southern Baptist Convention's political voice — amounts to a declaration of war on evangelicals.
For better or for worse, Mr. Putin has forced the world to reckon with a surly and combative Russia again.
Even the embattled Anthony Scaramucci, who more closely embodies President Trump's combative outsider persona, could be a better fit here.
That means many around the world, including some in the US, will suffer because of Trump's uniquely combative economic policies.
"The system is about them; they're both very combative, competitive guys," Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau said of Andersen and Gibson.
Trump early Thursday downplayed talk that the sometimes-combative tone he takes with foreign leaders could damage U.S. relations abroad.
The pundits may be correct that the increasingly combative nature of political debates will ultimately be bad for the country.
" Demings, who said Whitaker gave "inappropriate or incomplete" responses during his Capitol Hill appearance, called his testimony "pitiful" and "combative.
Trump's campaign rhetoric was combative from the very start, and he's brought that approach with him to the White House.
It was a combative year for Airbnb, and the controversial home-sharing company is ready to move on to 2017.
Want to better understand what may happen in the United States economy as President Trump pursues his combative trade policies?
President Trump has supported combative trade policies for years, and in recent months, his administration has begun to pursue them.
The hedge fund was engaging with the leisure group in a "combative way," said a source familiar with the situation.
He was cool, collected and unflinchingly combative, while his sledging was known to be as snide as it was fierce.
Deborah Roberts moves in a mixed-media direction in her small collages of combative female adult-children brandishing boxing gloves.
It's a combative stance that's at odds with a statement Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made just hours before Trump's interview.
Mr. Moon's engagement agenda has been thwarted as much by the North's defiant weapons tests as Mr. Trump's combative response.
Belichick constantly deflected and was combative with reporters -- especially when asked if AB spoke with the team about the situation.
Ratcliffe made headlines for being highly critical of and combative toward Robert Mueller during the special counsel's testimony in July.
The ambition and scope of the investigations vary by state, with some set up to be more combative than others.
Asked whether there was a plan to switch from conservative outreach into a more combative role, James declined to comment.
After the departure of aides like Hicks, there are fewer confidants in the White House to buffer Trump's combative instincts.
He tried to shift the company away from its combative stance with municipal officials soon after London pulled its license. ___
Combative and fiery, Mr. Lewandowski was the most aggressive defender of the president while he headed up the 2016 campaign.
As a larger, single subset working under the auspices of the commissioner's office, umpires were warned about their combative style.
He stepped down this month as the Pentagon's acting personnel chief following a combative confirmation hearing, in which Republican Sen.
Pence had a different assessment, remarking that in their administration, a combative Russia would face an even stronger United States.
" Trump also delivered a combative speech in July 2017 calling gang members "animals" and praising law enforcement for being "rough.
Mr. Hunter is known for his hard-line views on immigration and national security and for his brash, combative style.
Uber has tended to barrel into new markets by flouting local laws, part of a combative approach to expand globally.
Many in the police community say Tasers nevertheless offer a valuable option for controlling combative subjects without resorting to firearms.
But for the most part, Lewandowski's combative squabbles with Democrats and refusal to answer questions overshadowed the role he played.
It helped define her as the show's combative character - a role that made her famous and fueled the show's popularity.
Sean Spicer, the longtime spokesman for the Republican National Committee known for being combative with reporters, was named press secretary.
Relaxed and funny, his pugnaciousness now coming across as playfulness and combative self-mockery, he is in his element here.
But most of what Our Revolution has become known for in campaigns is an active and often combative Twitter account.
In any case, seeing the Klingons in all their combative glory feels a bit like coming home for Trek fans.
Within a few months, Tesla claims, Tripp became "disruptive and combative with his colleagues," and was reassigned in May 2018.
When Roena Cheryl Mills, 41, was confronted by deputies on April 1, she allegedly become "combative" with them and was arrested.
A core group of combative young agitators has come to define the antigovernment protests that have convulsed Hong Kong since June.
"t is reported that he was happy to see his visitors, but also that he has been combative," the update read.
Press events in the White House briefing room were frequently combative, as she traded barbs with reporters in defense of Trump.
It may seem obvious, but users who are perceived to be combative to suggestions are typically downvoted in the comment section.
Mr. Li had been an editor for the website of The Southern Metropolitan Daily, a popular and sometimes combative Chinese newspaper.
Darcy's explanation is that they were attracted to Trump because of his "combative style," or because he was good for ratings.
Philippe Reines, a longtime adviser known for his combative style and fierce loyalty to Clinton, is playing Trump in debate prep.
Her combative tone with Trick on the track affirmed that I could speak my mind, even if someone didn't like it.
Between the lines: The White House statement is far more combative than the actual analysis, by the Council of Economic Advisers.
It says the officers later attempted to justify their actions by contending the woman was being combative and not following directions.
"Journalism in the United States was born partisan and remained, for much of its history, loud, boisterous and combative," he wrote.
Recorded in front of a studio audience, the program is known for its fierce confrontations and Kyle's combative demeanor with guests.
And that the protests against police brutality in Ferguson were secretly a Russian plot: Mensch is quite combative with the press.
A less combative and more experienced politician would never have found himself in the position to be undone as Trump was.
Asked Wednesday what he thought of the accusation by Rubio supporters that he's taking votes from him, Kasich quickly turned combative.
Ever since January 28, celestial soldier Mars has been stormtrooping through combative Aries, raising the collective blood pressure of the world.
Earlier Monday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) grew combative with reporters pressing him on the significance of Bannon's hire.
Fadell was often criticized for his combative management style, so it will be interesting to see how Fawaz is in comparison.
About one-third of people with the disease become combative during the course of their illness, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
"I was ready for him, but it's much easier if the cops do it," said the ever-combative Republican front-runner.
In a fiery and combative news conference on Tuesday morning, Sheriff Normand told reporters why they had released Gasser last week.
Trump's executive order on refugees and immigration, along with combative tweets and protests across the country, have used up media oxygen.
As mentioned above, Adams' character is a linguist — and the primary interaction between her and the aliens is communicative, not combative.
A far less nervous and combative mood prevailed in Magnanville, the small town west of Paris where the stabbings took place.
"Saturday Night Live" parodied the briefings with actress Melissa McCarthy playing a combative, blustering Spicer, in clips that became viral sensations.
"There has to be some form of punishment," the GOP presidential front-runner told MSNBC's Chris Matthews during a combative interview.
Recent press briefings hosted by Sanders have been characterized by combative questions from press corps members and retaliation from administration officials.
When asked if he had any regrets about his combative relationship with the press corps, Spicer admitted to making some errors.
But this week, the combative side of religion was hard to escape, whether you were in Washington, Tuscaloosa or Tel Aviv.
"Look, the president has been very even-handed throughout this process," Jeff Weaver, Sanders's combative campaign manager, said Tuesday on MSNBC.
One of the most combative defenders of Trump has been his attorney Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City.
What's less understandable is why a plurality of college-educated white men backs the Republican Party's combative soon-to-be nominee.
He has slyly shifted the party base away from its combative urban roots to rural fiefs that are easier to control.
In an era where Trump seems to be combative with allies and collegial with adversaries, the world will be watching attentively.
"Our mood is increasingly combative," Mr Juncker said as he indicated Brussels would react to Washington not in months but "days".
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 97% (certified fresh)Synopsis: "A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family."
"It could be my fault," Trump told Time magazine when asked directly if he feels his administration has been too combative.
I tell their stories and I connect with them, whereas before it was much more combative, it was much more pugilistic.
But do you think that, given the current situation, especially in the United States, the music industry should be more combative?
There was plenty of combative reporting about Trump during the primary, reporting that would have sunk pretty much any other candidate.
Still, the case will move forward, and Mr. Erdogan, in typically combative style, said, "I don't obey or respect the decision."
But his combative side has now emerged as the Democratic race has tightened and Hillary Clinton has sharpened her own rhetoric.
Pisces isn't a combative sign, so warrior planet Mars can be a bit awkward in the sign of peace and love!
President Donald Trump's demands that China slash its surplus with the U.S. have become a cornerstone of his combative economic policy.
Mercury squares off with Mars on January 8, so be careful about a combative energy in the air, especially at work.
Take Thomas L. Blanton, a combative Democratic Congressman from Texas who was a distinctly Trumpish figure in the 21928s and 19373s.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials told Reuters that the Trump administration has launched combative efforts to paint Iranian leaders in a negative light.
The tumultuous presidential race and its combative debates have helped drive ratings for the major cable news channels to new highs.
In the role, she took a combative attitude to defending the president, and faced criticism for her distortion of the facts.
"I have every intention of asking him difficult questions and engaging in a serious and even combative conversation," Mr. Remnick said.
Combative politics is written in Mr. Erdogan's DNA, one Turkish columnist explained, and for that matter, it seems, in Mr. Trump's.
Since that day, even with López in prison, Voluntad Popular has continued to be the most combative wing of the opposition.
With 20 minutes left to play, the combative midfielder found himself bursting into the opposition box and bearing down on goal.
Mr. Trump has been more combative and unrestrained in slinging claims of fraud and unfairness than Mr. Scott or Mr. DeSantis.
And China's leaders risk prolonging tensions by defending their decisions with combative rhetoric that could narrow the room for a compromise.
The combative words threaten to complicate and prolong the trade dispute, even if Mr. Trump or Mr. Xi desires a truce.
Taken together, these pieces suggest that the feminine lies within the swirl of that which is luscious, ghastly, combative, and inscrutable.
Law enforcement sources tell us when cops tried putting Heather in custody she became combative, flailing, kicking and struck 3 deputies.
In anticipation of her ambassadorship, The New York Times called her "shrewd and combative" in a "Woman in the News" profile.
Post-Trump, the channel's prime-time lineup has moved to the right, installing the combative Tucker Carlson in the 8 p.m.
LaPierre, the NRA's combative CEO, has just emerged from an attempted coup and finds himself mired in legal battles with Ackerman.
And the combative, offscreen voice of the mother — credited on the show to "Ivy Woodcock" — is provided by Daisy May herself.
"The president-elect always gets to pick his team going forward," McCarthy said during a combative meeting with reporters. http://bit.
As it became clear Mueller was nearing the end of his investigation, Trump appeared in a combative and sometimes foul mood.
Weiss was still the band's drummer on "Animal," which like the album was produced by St. Vincent; it's a combative outtake.
The vitriolic talk was an indication that his combative tone from the State of the Union address is likely to continue.
"How can you put your life in the hands of one client?" he asked his ambitious, combative and whip-smart protégé.
Once cited by the special counsel team as an exemplary cooperating witness, Mr. Flynn had grown increasingly combative in recent months.
As police commissioner, he also had a combative relationship with the F.B.I., with the two agencies frequently engaged in turf wars.
She's not combative or defensive when I ask her about the "blunt" tendencies that led to some of these unflattering reports.
But in the lead up to the decision's deadline on Sunday, Golden State representatives are starting to take a combative stance.
And anyone who knows President Trump's combative nature has to recognize that he could thrive in such an atmosphere as well.
The tweet was Trump's latest provocation in what has been a combative day as he attends a NATO summit in Brussels.
"Sometimes you might have people who like to create tension, be combative, go to war to divert attention," the diplomat said.
Mr. Trump's combative public persona — often on display during his campaign — mostly dissolves behind the carved-stone walls of his castle.
Polls released in recent weeks, however, indicate the appeal of a more moderate, less combative Democratic message has been perhaps undervalued.
A curator takes the often-emotional comments, removes them from their combative context and rephrases them as cogent, dispassionate bullet points.
It's really hard for me to say anything snarky right now or combative because I was raised to respect that office.
Many expect the next president to be a far more combative figure, in the mold of the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
But it was far from clear that his performance on Monday, combative and pugnacious, would be enough to salvage his candidacy.
One, the Gatestone Institute, lists John R. Bolton, a combative former United Nations ambassador under George W. Bush, as its chairman.
So while 2016 may have taken this logic to an unusually combative extent, disagreement before Election Day is to be expected.
While some presidential candidates have avoided direct broadsides against President Trump, Mr. Sanders, ever combative, addressed his potential opponent head on.
But according to the complaint, Mr. Hudek "remained combative" even after police officers took him into custody after the plane landed.
Though a leftist, Mr. López Obrador has drawn comparisons to Mr. Trump for his nationalist impulses, populist rhetoric and combative personality.
That combative bonding process continued when the Flames returned to Southern California to play the Ducks in Anaheim on April 4.
The appointment of Hironaka, nicknamed for his combative style, is widely seen as move to adopt a more aggressive legal strategy.
Hérens aren't exactly famous for their overwhelming milk production, and they're mostly dear to their breeders because of their combative character.
As Vox's Jeff Guo writes: Many Republicans condemned Democrats and the "liberal media" for promoting a combative tone against the GOP.
How to transform that relationship from combative to symbiotic is the problem — and it's one that artists aren't tasked to solve.
Mr. Trump's comments, though combative, had little to do with the delicate negotiations, a fact that appeared to elude Mr. Trump.
After bringing new levels of combativeness to the political process, "the only way you survive is to be combative," Trump says now.
" Voss says it's important that anyone trying to negotiate with a combative negotiator like Trump not try to "fight fire with fire.
Assistant jail administrator Russ Miller said Carter had a history of combative behavior and physically resisted officers the night he was killed.
For Netanyahu, the talks with Trump will be an opportunity to reset ties after a frequently combative relationship with Democrat Barack Obama.
You can put down three separate points this way—not just for combative means, but also to grab guns and health packs.
Roughly 24 hours later, though, Trump's speech before the swearing in of his senior staff was more measured and strikingly less combative.
As he left, police confronted the man and took him into custody, where he continued to be "combative" with officers, Whitney said.
But in the context of a combative relationship between the American press and the Trump administration, it takes on a different hue.
Throughout the presidential campaign season, Donald Trump's combative rhetoric has prompted discussion about the impact of such hostility on citizens, particularly children.
Good-government advocates have found a champion in Laura Codruta Kovesi, the combative chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA).
And while some of the comments were combative, she said she understands where anti-vax and vaccine-hesitant moms are coming from.
The hyper-competitive executive and serial entrepreneur is notoriously combative and has difficulty unclenching his grip on the reins of the company.
Other important party figures, including former Speaker Newt Gingrich, are urging Trump to change his combative, confrontational style before it's too late.
As recently as Thursday, he gave a combative radio address insisting that the vote would go forward, which further infuriated opposition groups.
Arthur Ding, of National Chengchi University, thinks the deal, despite its hefty price tag, will fly swiftly through the sometimes combative legislature.
The research in this area is fairly stark – women are penalized much more than men for being seen as aggressive or combative.
When Bash asked Conway about her husband's Twitter habits on Sunday, she became combative and said the question was out of line.
And while some might not agree with their combative nature, and many questions remain about their tactics, playing nice hasn't quite worked.
Ton Büchner had recently defended the Dutch paint and chemicals company from a combative takeover bid launched by PPG, an American rival.
He blames his ongoing struggle with diabetes and mental health for his combative behavior – and takes full responsibility for the December incident.
Inés Arrimadas, the young and combative leader of Ciudadanos in Catalonia, has confirmed that she is a rising star in Spanish politics.
In incident reports, police also called Timpa's behavior "combative" but said that he hadn't resisted arrest or threatened any of the officers.
But his combination of combative and sloppy behavior is doing the impossible when it comes to that relationship: it's making it worse.
But his attempt to be snarky came across awkward and forced, mostly falling flat, as did his combative exchanges with the moderators.
In his fight for the primaries, Trump seemed to view being outrageous, politically incorrect and combative as a remarkably effective route forward.
Instead of the current combative approach, the U.S. government needs to reaffirm its desire to cooperate with its southern neighbor as partners.
Is it the familiar, combative campaign tone that led his supporters to chant "CNN sucks" at rallies and boo the press pen?
In court, the prosecutor referenced TMZ's video of Conrad's arrest last Saturday ... telling the judge he was combative and profane to police.
Pierson maintained a high profile during the campaign for her often combative television interviews, which sparked controversy at times over challenged facts.
The outlet reports 12 units were dispatched to the scene and the 34-year-old was combative with cops during the arrest.
I am a fourth generation descendant of a combative frontier lawyer who helped establish much of the early law in our state.
This KCNA report is the latest in a string of combative statements and actions from the North Korean regime in recent weeks.
The problem was that, for all his flair when dealing with combative reporters or political rivals, Christie's takes were weak as hell.
Here he remained politely combative: "God's hand is upon this country," he said, and He would make the right choice: ie, him.
Democrats and some in the media blame recent violence on an atmosphere of anger they believe is stirred by Trump's combative rhetoric.
Trump had grown exasperated by Spicer's combative press briefings, which he watches closely from his private dining room off the Oval Office.
But the President's combative post-election press conference Tuesday -- and the dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- appear to answer the question.
New doubts: The combative exchanged raised fresh doubts about whether Trump and Congress can avert a partial government shutdown by the Dec.
In a combative speech, which contrasted sharply with the defeated tone of the Socialist Party, Melenchon reached out to disappointed left-wingers.
" Trump has reacted to North Korea's saber-rattling and missile tests with combative rhetoric and pledges to respond with "fire and fury.
Contrary to some his advisers, Trump remains confident his combative China policy is not roiling markets; instead, he's blamed the Federal Reserve.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who supports staying, made a televised appeal last week that included a combative town-hall-style question session.
Focusing on the market value also makes the dynamic between you and your employer much more comfortable and less combative, says Cain.
"He is brash, outspoken, misogynistic, combative and uninterested in quarantining himself from his financial interests," the St. Louis Dispatch editorial board wrote.
It would depend on the size of the department, the officer said, adding that combative prisoners were becoming more and more common.
But Castro lost a big endorsement as a result of his combative approach on the debate stage towards the former vice president.
The combative president has expressed skepticism of the global institution and has sometimes conducted diplomacy by strafing foes from his Twitter account.
He has promised a more conciliatory style and open dialogue with adversaries and foreign companies, in contrast to Correa's often combative manner.
If the issue is a particularly combative one, appointing an unbiased person to run the show can help keep conversations on track.
Jeb Bush, who has grown increasingly combative with Trump over the months, joked that he wished the real estate mogul was there.
But his legacy will always be as the combative filmmaker of bad video game adaptations who literally boxed critics he didn't like.
Notoriously outspoken and combative at his prime, Mr. Redstone has not appeared before the court or submitted a statement of his own.
His cheeriness was later negated by surly, combative exchanges with reporters over the dark tone he adopted in the midterms' closing days.
A Democratic House will change the tone in Washington, which is likely to become even more combative, if you can believe it.
At a combative news conference at Trump Tower, the billionaire detailed $5.6 million from a fund-raising effort in January in Iowa.
Instead, the president's antipathy toward dictatorship in Venezuela and Cuba seems to be motivated more by political ideology and his combative instincts.
Ask the CGT — a major union that has struck the most combative stance against the changes — for its plan to fix France.
Political groups and candidates — whether for city council or the United States Senate — are imitating President Trump's raw and combative style online.
A French waiter who was fired for being combative and aggressive said his former bosses were discriminating against his culture and heritage.
Mr. Barr had been scheduled to appear for a second, more combative hearing on Thursday before the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee.
Through two combative appearances on CNBC's "Halftime Report," Mason goads Axe into spending substantial political and actual capital on reversing the ban.
They also underscore his combative ideological persona, which has roiled national Democratic politics as thoroughly as it upended municipal government in Burlington.
Her address in Parliament on Thursday was unusually combative, and it was frequently interrupted by heckling from representatives of Alternative for Germany.
At Pine Prairie, ICE said a group of detainees were pepper-sprayed on Tuesday after becoming "physically combative" in the recreation area.
"I think Theresa is going to go into a phase where we are much more combative with Brussels," Johnson was recorded saying.
But he didn't go as far as the US leader, who grew more combative in his stance as the dinner wore on.
" He said he thought Mr. Trump's combative recent statements had been meant to "demonstrate his resolve and put pressure on North Korea.
Elizabeth Warren, among the first candidates to call for Trump's impeachment, who would being a combative style some Democrats are unused to?
But even allies who ordinarily reinforce the President's combative instincts have warned that wading into such a torrid matter would appear unpresidential.
The finding did not overrule the appointment of Selmayr, whose combative style has won the German both admirers and enemies in Brussels.
"He spoke today sounding very combative and defiant instead of possibly offering a bit of fig leaf to the U.S.," said Franulovich.
The question is whether Silicon Valley is willing to cooperate and whether President Donald Trump's combative nature risks damaging the vital partnership.
Even so, Trump's combative use of import taxes, combined with retaliatory tariffs by China and Europe, has stalled job growth in manufacturing.
But while President Trump continued to call for changes in the trade relationship, China appeared to soften its own combative tone somewhat.
Large corporations may be holding off on some expansion plans, fearing that President Trump's combative actions may make the investments less profitable.
Mr. Trump's popularity has been rising even as he made combative moves on the trade front that at times roiled the market.
Mr. Trump appears to hope that Mr. Giuliani, a like-minded political street fighter from New York, will aid his combative approach.
"I think there is blame on both sides," the president said in a combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
In the months since that change, the team has embraced a less combative approach, hired new representation and restructured its union leadership.
Though best known as a combative Fox News personality, Mr. O'Reilly has carved out an incredibly lucrative side pursuit as an author.
Perhaps sensing her unease, Mr. Biden's aides pounced, prolonging what has been the most combative period of the Democratic primary to date.
It has also reignited a long-running rumor that he might appoint his combative former top aide, Lawrence S. Schwartz, as chairman.
If Clayton and the new administration take too combative a path with the bureaucracy, it will simply hunker down and resist change.
There is something so deliciously Rihanna about "Love on the Brain," a startlingly beautiful ballad that feels at once vulnerable and combative.
"Don is very smart, he's very combative, and he's very dogged," said Robert Bauer, a former White House counsel under Mr. Obama.
"His combative attitude with the Democrats and the media on Twitter never gets old with me either," said Joshua Dawson of Iowa.
But as he pulled out documents related to his lawsuit and spoke about them in sharp bursts, his combative side became evident.
Trump advisor Stephen Miller also made a combative appearance, making the case for an immigration proposal that the president backed on Wednesday.
IT'S CLEAR THAT YOU'RE -- AND THIS IS NOT ALWAYS TYPICAL, YOURE WILLING TO BE COMBATIVE HERE YOU'RE COMING OUT STRONGLY AGAINST HIM.
At the same time, Skjei has been credited with 93 hits, third among Rangers' defensemen, behind only the combative Klein and Holden.
Many have pointed out the ostensible irony of the first lady promoting anti-bullying given her husband's combative and sometimes belittling rhetoric.
These, too, are more visible than in the past, thanks to more combative prosecutors, investigative journalists, whistleblowers and freedom-of-information laws.
"Mexico has a lot of chips to play," said Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign secretary who has staked out a combative approach.
There's a time to be combative and there's a time to be in friend-making mode, vis-à-vis your own party.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the committee is preparing for the president's longtime confidant to be a combative witness.
Cipollone's legal background and relationship with Trump's team suggests he will take a more combative approach toward Mueller than his predecessor did.
These are dumb times to love combative sports, especially you take "fun" fights (or whatever) for dessert instead of the main course.
People close to Weinstein, 67, have told CNN the disgraced movie producer is combative and in denial about how far he's fallen.
Allen, who had been accused of murder, was very combative — making sexual references while demanding that he get a new public defender.
Earlier on Friday, the main opposition Republican People's Party nominated Muharrem Ince, one of its most prominent and combative lawmakers, for the presidency.
" Matt Lewis, senior contributor to The Daily Caller "Rubio's answers are good but he is fighting every question with a combative tone. Why?
Trump's combative posture on Thursday morning left no doubt that Mueller's remarks and the growing calls for impeachment that followed have rattled Trump.
He also promised to mobilize his considerable following into a combative opposition that will fight for social reforms and defend the peace accord.
The combative approach is partly an outgrowth of Democrats' strategy of maximizing their oversight authority in the House once they wield the gavel.
Much as it is in America, cable news in India is dominated by fiery debate shows with combative moderators and eye-catching graphics.
A combative disciple of Andrew Jackson, Johnson often seemed most comfortable mixing it up with the crowd with extemporaneous remarks at political rallies.
It set up a special committee to examine its legal strategy and appointed John Beisner, a combative lawyer, to advise on trial tactics.
His ascendancy and Michel's retirement ushered in a new combative style of leadership for House Republicans, who have remained largely uncompromising ever since.
Now there is a new threat: A combative Trump determined to question the credibility of news organisations, the heartbeat of many media organisations.
But the combative leader also feuded with the media, business community, indigenous groups and environmentalists by pushing through measures that consolidated executive power.
The result was frequently combative interviews with members of the Trump administration and its supporters, including various high-profile spats with Kellyanne Conway.
Never mind that Aatma Singh (Pankaj Tripathi), the local police officer, is openly combative - or that his fellow election officials think he's loony.
He got a little combative, and I had the pleasure of paying for my drink and leaving in the middle of his tantrum.
It's where misinformation spreads, where combative arguments with old acquaintances are sparked, and where publishers big and small compete to game the network.
After weeks of campaigning, millions spent and a few combative debates, New Yorkers will head to the polls tomorrow for a special election.
Mr. Rouhani had little unrestricted access to any medium other than Telegram and Instagram, especially for live coverage of his increasingly combative campaign.
Last month, the combative populist Marine Le Pen of the right-wing National Front flew to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin.
The Democratic candidates, for their part, also showed the strain from a race that is becoming more combative and competitive by the day.
Lawsuits were piling up, several labor unions were organizing drivers to strike and combative rhetoric from all involved seemed to foreshadow a showdown.
And he was confident Huawei would overcome the currently combative business and intellectual property relationship between the U.S. and China to do so.
Many people have observed that if a woman were to carry herself the way Kavanaugh did – emotional, combative – she would have lost credibility.
Trump claims he's a victim, blames the media; the media becomes combative; his victimhood deepens, becomes part of the identity of his followers.
Incoming Google CEO Larry Page, he argued, was a wartime CEO — with Facebook ascendant, Page would have to adopt a more combative mindset.
If Wednesday night follows in the footsteps of the previous two debates, the final face-off promises to be unpredictable, combative and nasty.
The Russian art of Systema follows the same principles of "confront a gun, flee a blade" that so many other combative systems do.
The DJs move through genres fluidly, with techno, drum and bass, jungle, and R&B rubbing against each other, sometimes in combative ways.
"He was more combative, but that's what we want, we want him to stand up to her," said Susan Keevican, another Pittsburgh Republican.
After the kind of combative and impulsive shopping that Black Friday and Cyber Monday bring, Giving Tuesday is a welcome change of pace.
In fact, the philanthropist and former Microsoft product manager says the combative environment of early-days Microsoft almost made her leave the company.
She was clearly as appalled as anyone by the combative culture of the Trump White House, the peculiar barrage of gratuitously insulting tweets.
The "Ghostbusters" actress won rave reviews when she debuted an exaggerated impersonation of a gum-chewing, uber-combative Spicer on "SNL" last month.
He also testified that Justin became combative with police, telling officers to "shut the f— up" and "f— you" before he was detained.
Combative tweets from Donald Trump, high-level talks between the two sides, a stalemate, more tariffs and counter-tariffs, and then conciliatory messages.
"I think that Melania's going to be outstanding," Trump said Thursday during a lengthy, at times combative news conference at the White House.
The high point of his combative career was his editorship of the Rand Daily Mail, torchbearer of liberal South Africa, from 1977-1981.
It's a trigger that I've developed after years of unnecessarily, and often unsuccessfully, defending myself against accusations of being combative, threatening, and disruptive.
Kelly said "we've all seen the clip" of the White House press conference where Trump and Acosta had a combative exchange last week.
France's Macron had initially sought to persuade the Trump administration to abandon its combative stance on both trade and the Iran nuclear accord.
Further, if sanctions were the issue, the combative government of President Nicolas Maduro would likely make a statement saying as much, he added.
Backed by a small but growing group of loyalists, Gingrich launched an insurgency aimed at instilling a more "combative" approach in the party.
My firsthand experience over the course of several years working for Lee at Omega provides an answer to the combative tweet that Sen.
The man who was attacked was driven to the hospital but was not treated for his injuries as he was combative with staff.
Instead, the combative anti-corruption activist called for an election boycott and tried to draw as much attention as possible to electoral fraud.
Trump, the billionaire businessman and GOP front-runner, has stirred a string of controversies for his highly combative statements on the campaign trail.
In a combative inaugural speech, he vowed to take measures to send some of the 63 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon back home.
The plaintiff's vague recollections and testimony at times contradicted what she told lawyers during her deposition, leaving her vulnerable to combative cross-examination.
He has also sought to defend pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden in a series of combative — and sometimes contradictory — interviews in recent weeks.
It's an extraordinary shift within a party that's now adopting a more combative footing on racial issues ahead of next year's presidential election.
It's an extraordinary shift within a party that's now adopting a more combative footing on racial issues ahead of next year's presidential election.
Yet his moderate image may not capture the combative mood of the party's left wing — and its been visible on the campaign trail.
Reporters hope to ask the combative zinger that gets into the social media fast lane, raising profiles for themselves and their news organizations.
In the interim, combative rhetoric will spook markets, but investors need to ignore the noise and focus on economic measures, which remain mild.
In a combative White House press conference on Monday, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused some journalists of "purposely" putting out false information.
Musk said this during the "60 Minutes" interview after being asked about combative tweets he has published in response to critics and reporters.
Mr. Nadella, a longtime Microsoft executive whose career odyssey at the company included overseeing its C.R.M. product, was less combative than his predecessor.
But that combative approach was largely absent on Wednesday night, although there were a few tense moments that could prove revealing in hindsight.
If the harpsichord is a tool for Mr. Esfahani, who's eloquent and smart, and at times angry and combative, what is it for?
Branstad's appointment also suggests that Trump may be ready to take a less combative stance toward China than many expected, the experts said.
Acosta, a frequent critic of Trump, has maintained a combative relationship with Trump officials both in the White House and in the campaign.
"These billion-dollar companies should help ameliorate the impact they're having," said Aaron Peskin, a combative member of the city's board of supervisors.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a "madman" Friday morning, the latest escalation in their combative rhetoric.
Their appreciation was in contrast to a more combative style in recent years, when shale states seemed to relish openly bashing the group.
You're feeling energized, but you may also be in a more combative mood than usual due to your ruling planet clashing with Mars.
Authorities said the capo, who has fathered at least nine children with three different women, was non-combative due to his family's presence.
Known as Trump's go-to guy, Kasowitz's unstinting defense of the real estate mogul-turned-president perhaps best reflects Trump's own combative style.
The president was also pleased with Miller's combative performance during a series of appearances on the Sunday news show circuit earlier this year.
The tumultuous American presidential race and its combative debates have helped drive ratings for the country's major cable news channels to new highs.
No surprise here: The first big New York survey of this many-styled Italian design guru's 60-year career has a combative air.
Other governors weren't as combative but did raise some issues with how the federal government has handled the situation, including access to tests.
As far as intelligence, he's considered a genius, and in terms of combative ability, he could hold his own against any super soldier.
Uber's drama led to a bunch of high-profile exits from the ride-sharing company, including the notoriously combative co-founder Travis Kalanick.
It's almost poetic that one of the UFC's most combative fighters on the roster would be the one to save the promotion's ass.
Both men are thinly experienced, combative Trump loyalists who raise concerns about bringing political bias to a sensitive role guiding 22014 intelligence agencies.
Both men are thinly experienced, combative Trump loyalists who raise concerns about bringing political bias to a sensitive role guiding 22014 intelligence agencies.
" Yiannopoulos also tied his famously combative public persona into his Catholic faith, saying "The truth often hurts, as the Church has always understood.
Both embarked on a more combative, aggressive approach toward the Russia investigation compared to the more cooperative stance favored by his former attorneys.
But Mr. Trump seems to have no sense of when and how to put controversy to rest and when not to be combative.
Mr. Wuorinen gained a reputation as a combative proponent of 21989-tone composition, a cerebral idiom he mastered in hundreds of eloquent works.
His political base passionately celebrates the combative way in which he has upended Washington, seeing it as a deserved rebuke of elite sensibilities.
The auxiliary bio class character's 180-degree turn from being despondent and combative to vivacious and overeager deserves a story of its own.
No surprise here: The first big New York survey of this many-styled Italian design guru's 2708-year career has a combative air.
No surprise here: The first big New York survey of this many-styled Italian design guru's 26800-year career has a combative air.
No surprise here: The first big New York survey of this many-styled Italian design guru's 220-year career has a combative air.
As a result, many developed a new kind of identity — one that is more strongly felt as well as narrower and more combative.
Trump's news conferences will be different The Trump we saw on Friday was not as combative or as colorful as he can be.
In Germany, Merkel's frank one-on-one with Putin, the first such Germany-based working session in years, was neither chummy nor combative.
The White House has struggled to hit on a consistent communications strategy or a reasonable way of dealing with the combative press corps.
In the weeks prior to the coup attempt, Turkey strove to mend some of the relations most frayed by Erdoğan's combative foreign policy.
The Economist proudly enlists itself in this combative Anglo-American tradition, having vigorously claimed to be advancing the liberal cause since its founding.
But the overall mood of this film, which is more downbeat than some might expect, is anxious, combative and at times self-pitying.
A combative presidential news conference on Thursday raised doubts over how effective the Trump administration will be in pushing through its economic agenda.
And China's leaders have been seeking out experts to gain a better understanding of how to respond to Mr. Trump's combative trade agenda.
Mr. Grenell honed his combative style when he worked as a spokesman at the United Nations for the former ambassador John R. Bolton.
Oracle and its combative skipper, Jimmy Spithill, rallied from a much bigger deficit to defend against New Zealand in San Francisco in 183.
The feud, which began on Twitter and has continued on television, has cemented Ms. Cheney's reputation as the most combative Cheney in Washington.
Some characterized Mr. Colmes as a punching bag and even a sacrificial lamb who was neutralized by the considerably more combative Mr. Hannity.
In a combative news conference in New York, the president said he wanted to "know the facts" before condemning the right-wing groups.
But the causes for criticism of Bevin -- his combative personality, penchant for controversy and pursuit of controversial policies -- could also apply to Trump.
And, as the year drew to a close, Trump returned to a much more combative footing regarding Schumer and Pelosi, and Democrats generally.
In a combative statement, Marc Kasowitz lashed out at the media, accusing the press of misreporting his claim that Comey gave false testimony.
The combative testimony of the President's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski fell flat, and was widely seen as an embarrassment for House Democrats.
Natasha Bertrand: Re-listening to Slate's Slow Burn podcasts and preparing for the president to become more combative than we've ever seen him.
Kalanick resigned as CEO of Uber last June, amid reports of combative behavior and an intellectual property lawsuit with self-driving rival Waymo.
They at one point warred over the size of Trump's hands, and, in another exchange, Rubio rejected Trump's combative rhetoric against his opponents.
"As in the business world, he's laying out this combative posture," said Gordon Adams, who oversaw military budgets in the Clinton White House.
That would be Senator Chuck Grassley, the 84-year-old, seven-term Iowa Republican who is becoming more daring and combative every day.
In general, this younger generation of drivers is more assertive and combative than just about any racing F1 cohort that I've ever seen.
If that number is much lower, you're stuck either trying to negotiate a higher salary, which Drexler says will make you seem combative.
Right-wing works council members make an effort to appear reasonably critical of globalization, combative and avoid any racist language at the workplace.
The debate was combative and punctuated by withering attacks from all sides on the newcomer on stage: billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Sen.
Secondly, to push that person into a combative posture with other people in the media and push out a lot of radicalizing content.
People who knew the gunman told Reuters he was a devout, quiet Muslim who became more "combative" after trips to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
"I never heard anything because, as I have stated, I was never in charge of financial matters within the party," a combative Rajoy said.
A combative far-right former Army captain, Bolsonaro has vowed to crack down on crime, end corruption and steam roll anything in his path.
Trump's response to the day of carnage made clear his combative instincts on terrorism have not been tempered just because the election is over.
Brooklyn-based electronic trio, Glass Gang, have shed their usual affinity for slick new wave with a combative mix of hard-hitting dance tracks.
Starting his combative journey in Taekwondo, Wong began studying under the Wu Tang lineage in 103 in search of a more fitting combat system.
Look for that combative, strike-first strategy to continue during the rest of the transition period straight through Trump's term in the White House.
But putting money towards the cause isn't enough, Stamos said—security experts also need to begin changing their hard-charging and often combative culture.
Bannon is largely credited with supporting Trump's combative style at a time in the campaign when other aides wanted him to stay on script.
" Earlier in the day, Trump referred to reports of combative conversations he had with Turnbull and the Mexican president over the weekend as "tough.
It's hard to imagine a dance record as combative being released now, despite the political climate in North America and Europe drifting towards fascism.
Torvalds' combative style is sometimes appreciated by developers when they believe he's taking on the powerful to argue for higher standards and stronger security.
The new demands by Trump's legal team indicate that it is likely to take a more aggressive and combative stance toward Mueller going forward.
But don't forget that Americans in 30 out of the 50 states elected Donald Trump to be as combative with establishment Washington as possible.
It's the first time the notoriously combative former CEO of Uber has spoken publicly since he was ousted by major shareholders in June 2017.
The question now is whether the President was previewing a new, more sober political persona or will he soon return to his combative habits?
The amount of passive-aggressive agreement at the debate has reached almost combative levels, as David Axelrod noted: Debate marred by violent agreement.#DemDebate
" WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE And in yet a different video, the combative commuter tells someone to "go back to your f--king country.
Ocasio-Cortez has had a publicly tense relationship with Crowley, and she has drawn some criticism from some House Democrats for her combative approach.
On the stand on Tuesday, her testimony was at times combative, with Tilton often saying the SEC's lawyer, Dugan Bliss, had mischaracterized her statements.
The big picture: Trump was discursive — and often combative — while defending some of his administration's most controversial policies, including family separation at the border.
And in recent years health insurers, their intermediaries, and hospitals have become increasingly combative about the price of drugs and the value they deliver.
But Mr Khamenei would rather avoid another showdown with an emboldened and combative man, as Iranian presidents in their second term tend to be.
On Sunday he will be interviewed by two journalists known for their combative style, with the discussion to be broadcast by three media outlets.
While Han's more combative approach may be getting her headlines, Famerz are using the discussion around gender inequality in South Korea to branch out.
Critics, however, have expressed skepticism over the first lady's commitment and ability to combat cyberbullying given her husband's history of being combative on Twitter.
It takes two hands to seat belt a combative prisoner who might bite, head butt, spit, or reach for your gun even while handcuffed.
Cruz's colleagues in the Senate have routinely described the junior senator from Texas as being condescending, combative, and pretty much the all-around worst.
You're in a combative mood this morning, Virgo, but your focus shifts to other things when the moon enters harmony-loving Libra this afternoon.
The swing power of independent lawmakers will make for combative politics, and the Rouhani administration's sway over social and political issues will remain limited.
Ruben Nunez, head of one of the most combative factions of Mexico's CNTE union, Oaxaca's Section 22, was detained on suspicion of money laundering.
"When you loved someone, and cared for someone, and it arrives into a [combative] arena... it's very dangerous when it becomes personal," he said.
Still, Republicans lost their majority in the House, a setback for the president after a campaign that became a referendum on his combative leadership.
Don't expect to go full-on Rebel Without A Cause, but do watch out if you're suddenly feeling a tad more combative than usual.
As combative as he can be on Twitter and at rallies, in one-on-one interviews President Trump is more agreeable and even likable.
But defense lawyers have argued in previous cases that officers had the discretion not to use a seat belt if a detainee was combative.

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