1. They quickly developed a reputation for combativeness.

2. High-spiritedness can quickly become combativeness when tempers run short.

3. The third issue discusses the combativeness of the persuasive advertising in the common retailer channel.

4. An air of combativeness may be present, but you don't have to succumb to anyone else's aggressive tendencies.

5. You may be facilitating your boss's combativeness by bowing your head and taking it, rather than speaking up or walking out.

6. However, the way that women express their combativeness tends to differ from the way men express theirs, she observed.

7. There was a certain combativeness in her voice, as if those who did not help had sided with the dark forces responsible for litter, decay and dilapidation .

8. What he loved was Moyer's combativeness on the mound, his ability to squirm from seemingly dire predicaments.

9. Her combativeness went in all directions – without a secure writing position, her defenses were also up against her own editors, who were naturally inclined to shape her views to their own tastes.

10. Public officials lacking his peculiar combination of charm and combativeness have failed to improve health, education, or housing.

11. Law was a highly efficient, rather unimaginative, detailed administrator, given political force by a strong sense of partisan combativeness.Sentencedict

12. It becomes much easier then for each of us to aim every day at conclusive disproofs - at strong inference - without either reluctance or combativeness.

13. While they were with Jesus, any slight shown to Him aroused their indignation and combativeness.

14. Two are in power today, and both are known for their toughness and combativeness: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the Philippines and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh.

15. His followers Johann Kaspar Spurzheim and George Combe divided the scalp into areas they labeled with traits such as combativeness, cautiousness, and form perception.