"The government will continue in its combative mood," he said.

Without waiting for an answer, he stumped out, looking very much in combative mood.

As a matter of fact, Aideen seems to be in a pretty combative mood.

Rawiller will find the right path in his combative mood.

The prime minister was in combative mood as he addressed the members of parliament.

A few members had gathered in an upstairs office, and they were in a combative mood.

When the 17th session opened that October, parliament was in a tremendously combative mood.

Lindquist didn't come before the committee packing pistols or even a combative mood.

Mr. Netanyahu surprised no one by being in a combative mood after the attack.

They say the polls are just a product of the tense and combative mood of the Democratic race to date.

Benítez has been in combative mood recently, on several occasions criticising Ferguson directly.

On Monday, the former Liverpool boss was in equally combative mood.

Despite earlier comments that suggested he could be softening his stand, Erdoğan was in combative mood.

Incessant engagement with outside threat kept Shinaki people in combative mood all the time.

And he was in a combative mood.

But there is a combative mood around the corridors of power which could hamper new laws intended to fight Europe’s worst economic crisis for generations.

Alas, not even Mr. Taruskin was in a particularly combative mood.

Wallinger's nag is not in frisky or combative mood.

The Commissioner was in combative mood: 'let me tell you one thing - if there is a fight worth fighting, this is the one.

It seems a full day of speaking with media the day prior had taken its toll on the festival director, who was in a combative mood.

Bhagavan is in a combative mood ready to release 'Sudarshana Chakra'.

"Powell is upset about the French, but the fact is they are not in a combative mood on this," a senior European diplomat said.

Earlier, waving a pair of blue boxing gloves at the GM plant, Clinton was in a combative mood.

Annoyed at her own uncharacteristic weakness, she clenched her hands into fists, willing a return of the earlier combative mood.

Mandelson's former sidekick Derek Draper, who organised the event, was in a more combative mood.