For 11 years atop SSE, he's been, by turns, amiably combative and unusually thoughtful.
There's no doubt that Secretary Bolton has been blunt and combative in defense of his perspectives.
Rush and Firth give the film an animus and a combative urgency that are missing elsewhere.
All were combative partisans, but their view of the American system was fundamentally positive.
No reader of this deliciously combative book would ever compare him to a meek fawn.
He has the combative charisma that Turks of the teeming cities or small Anatolian towns love.
Earlier this year police chiefs warned MSPs against passing "punitive and combative" measures to encourage breastfeeding.
With the forwards looking solid and combative, Wales' backs had the platform to attack.
Feminism with Japanese characteristics--a less combative tone and greater emphasis on protecting motherhood--is different.
The combative mayor is now having to make compromises that undermine his outsider status.
The combative head of the nation's sixth-biggest coal company has benefited greatly by facing down the union.
While some Republicans sounded less combative, they said they were nevertheless disappointed by the president's inaugural remarks.
Now as the MPA boss, the combative Kliger is hitting hard at inflated and fake circulation numbers.
And the Baggies created a couple of openings, usually from a long ball aimed towards the combative Miller.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is famed for making his views known in blunt, colourful, sometimes combative language.
His combative, often jaunty style at news conferences imprinted itself on the public for good and for bad.
The combative William could use a little mellowing, but maybe he has been good for the buttoned-down company.
Indeed, he was in a notably combative mood when challenged by Labour's Johann Lamont about hospital waiting times.
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While collaboration is something we all say we desire, we end up in combative negotiations time and time again.
Harrington's staff explained that he had been "combative" during the operation, he said.
Mr Putin has so far preferred combative rhetoric and threats to real violence.
Richards was greatest of them all, scoring over 8, 000 Test runs and thrilling crowds with his combative style of batting.
America settled however and restricted the combative Tongans to just two Hola penalties in the rest of the opening half.
Some are angry and combative about the idea that they are no longer capable of being in charge of the finances.
The two prime ministers, Audrius Kubilius of Lithuania and Donald Tusk of Poland, get on fine, unlike their combative foreign ministers.
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While he could be combative and bold, he also had an easy smile and often tried to inject humor into politics.
Additionally, a greater number of AIDS patients, lacking combative antibodies, come in contact with TB germs and quickly develop the disease.
In noisy, combative and lengthy confrontations with police, demonstrators sought to keep the meetings from going forward with only limited success.
What is more plausible is that the Microsoft case will embolden the antitrust agencies to pursue other dominant, combative high-tech firms.
Things only got worse in the 1970s, when Richard Nixon's combative approach to the press turned Watergate-era press conferences into a battleground.
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