| No success story showing the vitality, inventiveness and combativeness of dryland populations in the face of desertification has been told. |
| Its combativeness, its hostility to everything it perceives as a threat, works against it here. |
| The intruders' violent ends echo the combativeness with which Trebor dealt with the world around him. |
| His mild temperament, a little old-maidish perhaps, contrasted with Rosalind's brusque combativeness. |
| With characteristic combativeness, he rekindled a 13-year-old war of words with Australia and labelled George Bush a bare-faced liar. |
| Mao's nationalism combined with a personal trait of combativeness to make him admire the martial spirit, which became a cornerstone of Maoism. |
