combativeness ,

It seems to make a tremendous difference in his level of combativeness.

What stayed with him, however, was the depth of her combativeness.

The combativeness was just one more sign that the personal computer industry is at a crossroads.

She makes her case for more city funds with typical Queens combativeness.

All that combativeness was gone from his face now.

The experience echoes a tradition of social commitment and combativeness.

That open combativeness, and not racism, others said, led to his dismissal.

"I brought a toughness, a combativeness and the need to win," he said.

For a moment, Maria's natural combativeness caused her to frown.

Dementia can bring on serious behavioral problems, like wandering and combativeness.

Also, he says, with the combativeness that entrepreneurs often express for big companies, "they move rather slowly."

The request for bail suggests a growing combativeness in their defense strategies.

"Let's say you're right," he went on, reining in his combativeness just long enough to get this out.

There is plenty of room for the organs of combativeness.

She was mildly unimpressed, and he reduced her to combativeness rather than thought.

But it was from his father that he learned the combativeness with which he has confronted the world.

He provided the right leadership mixture of intellectual and bureaucratic combativeness that the job needed.

Right now, the evidence suggests that Peter can limit his combativeness to football; he has been solid thus far.

With an effort, he bit back the combativeness that Spock always seemed to provoke m him.

This combativeness can be tough on his staff.

He much preferred her combativeness to the dispassionate woman who now rode beside him.

His political personality was a memorable mixture of clowning and combativeness.

His combativeness, nurtured in a hard-scrabble childhood, is beyond doubt.

And Mr. Gingrich's combativeness played well with a few people.

But the Speaker's ideological combativeness is a regular feature.