Instead of offering to work with Congress on priorities, Bush aides are sounding increasingly combative.

At first unwilling to exploit his frailty, the Communists in the legislature have become increasingly combative in the past month.

His tone has become increasingly combative, and today he likened the campaign to war.

Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has implicitly criticized the Bush administration's increasingly combative stance against foreign imports.

The defense lawyer, growing increasingly combative, asked the witness about drug use.

But the mood grew increasingly combative.

Parliament's increasingly combative approach was also asserted in an effort to take over Izvestia, the popular and respected daily, which established its independence last August.

But United executives also wanted to work with one shop to move faster, which is particularly important as the airline industry turns increasingly combative.

Her son Bobbie became increasingly combative and after her death he committed suicide.

The opposition leaders assailed the Georgian President's erratic style of rule, and his increasingly combative approach to the republic's neighbors.