noncombative

(CNN) - Most Congress members conducting town hall meetings this month have chosen a noncombative posture to deal with angry participants who disrupt the proceedings.

Barney Frank goes toe to toe at health care town hall 2009

It was a stale response, but noncombative, and all I could manage just then.

AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010

You are noncombative, noncompetitive, and something of a pacifist.

Blog De Ganz | Archive | January 2008

As for comparable sports, bowling had eight times as many injuries as dodgeball, golf had sixteen times as many injuries, and inline skating a noncombative, noncompetitive staple of P.E. programs designed by forward-thinking educationists produced thirty-three times as many injuries.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

It is issuing a report this week that recommends, among other points, that the United States use more "nuanced, noncombative rhetoric" that avoids sweeping declarations like "war on terror," "global insurgency," even "the Muslim world."

Learning to Live With Radical Islam 2009

Fareed Zakaria argued the smart strategy was "nuanced, noncombative rhetoric" that avoids sweeping declarations like "war on terror."

The End of Newsweek? 2009

A delegation of town officials and leading citizens, “looking as amiable and noncombative as a parcel of sheep,” according to an eyewitness, gathered.

Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

A delegation of town officials and leading citizens, “looking as amiable and noncombative as a parcel of sheep,” according to an eyewitness, gathered.

Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

She talks slowly, enunciates precisely (her mother was an opera singer and actress) and takes a genuinely noncombative view of art.

Mortality, Morbidity And More 2007

Bolten's low-key, noncombative style has made his task a bit easier, especially when it came to asking the sometimes volatile Rove to surrender some of his power.

Bush Pops His Bubble 2007