Sentences with phrase «not pugnacious»
The German Shepherd Dog is distinguished for loyalty, courage, and the ability to assimilate and retain training for a number of special services; he is not pugnacious, as his reputation posits him to be, but a bold and punishing fighter if need be.
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He's not a pugnacious player, but he plays the game with everything he's got.
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It focuses instead on the big picture — on what it would take to change the situation altogether so that the result would be that we wouldn't have to deal with a pugnacious colleague at all.
If I have learned anything from the first year of the tumultuous Trump presidency, it is this: While our pugnacious Commander in Chief doesn't seem interested in picking his battles, I have to pick mine.
I found out later that he was raising and selling illegal fighting - roosters, cheated on his wife, was a drunk, pugnacious to a fault, and did not provide for his children in his house.
But don't count on the pugnacious bible thumpers to let go of their divine fantasy.
Here we are confronted with the difficulty to which Socrates calls attention in the Meno (80, near the end), and there characterizes as a «pugnacious proposition»; one can not seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know.
Cherie doesn't disappoint, telling her story in the pugnacious manner with which she drove her husband to power.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, who has previously been seen as one of the opposition's more pugnacious opponents of spending cuts, conceded at the weekend that he could not promise to reverse any of the government's cuts.
Still, the Si appears only slightly more pugnacious than garden - variety models — today's 10th - generation Civic already looks so brash that perhaps Honda didn't feel the need to push the envelope with this model's aesthetics.
In keeping with his pugnacious attitude toward other companies in the tablet space, Jobs couldn't resist taking a backhand swipe at the Motorola Xoom, a 10.1 - inch Android tablet that retails for $ 799.