combatively

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Melissa looked distressed What's sauce fo' the goose ought to be sauce fo' the gander," argued the ex-moonshiner It ain' fittin' fo' you-all to say anythin' ag'in' Dr. Morgan, whatever he may se_-lect to do," asserted Bud, combatively, and Pink hastened to hedge Ah 'low not.

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  • DPJ chief Ichiro Ozawa was combatively obstructionist, attempting to force an early election of the more powerful lower house. —  The Heritage Foundation Papers
  • Constable Kwesi Millington, the Taserman who seems to have more stories in his repertoire than Sheherezade, demonstrated yesterday how Dziekanski used it "combatively," prompting so many The constable didn't fare much better today. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • And there is nothing wrong with being challenged on that use now and then, especially as non-combatively as this incident was. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • No wonder journalists and human rights lawyers have lately taken to referring to that prison as the "other Guantanamo," or "Guantanamo II," or more combatively,
  • Ahmadinejad's visit to New York for last year's UN General Assembly meeting stirred controversy when the outspoken president dismissed talk of war against Iran as "propaganda" and combatively took on US critics who accuse him of denying the Holocaust and of backing terrorism. —  Turkish Press
 

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