combativity

Frankly, if anything, the virulence of Goldstein's hatred and combativity towards McGavick is a good indicator of the degree to which Democrats are worried that he is indeed a viable challenger.

Sound Politics: McGavick = Human, Liberal Bloggers = Angry 2006

I thus dedicate my joy to all those who, by their thought, their messages of support (to which I sometimes forgot to answer), their presence, their combativity, their perseverance, allowed this day to come and that I write, finally, the press release I've always dreamed of!

Boing Boing: November 16, 2003 - November 22, 2003 Archives 2003

We should never give up ground in combativity and fighting spirit.

Castro Speech at ANPP Closing Session 1992

Mella was forced to leave the country months after his historic hunger strike, but his extraordinary personality, his ideas, and his combativity intimidated Yankee imperialism, the oligarchy at the service of that imperialism, and the Machado tyranny too much.

50TH ANNIVERSARY-FIRST CUBAN MARXIST-LENINIST PA 1975

We are impressed by the strength of the people, their unity, their combativity, and this is very important.

LABE SPEECH 1972

The daring, the aggressiveness of our fighters in our independence wars, created a tradition, created a culture so to speak, a revolutionary, patriotic culture; habits were created in our people, habits of valor, dignity, of combativity.

CASTRO'S BAY OF PIGS ANNIVERSARY SPEECH 1971

And we understand that this moment is one for embarking on an all-out, powerful, revolutionary offensive. [applause] We must be more serious and increase our spirit of work, our revolutionary consciousness, the combativity of the masses, in order that they [presumably the counterrevolutionaries] will not be encouraged by anything.

TEXT OF CASTRO HAVANA UNIVERSITY SPEECH 1968

And we could say that we have often seen how given causes which most affect today's world, how certain aggressions, how certain crimes, have met with more support, more response, more protest, and more combativity, among groups of intellectual workers

CASTRO SPEECH CLOSING CULTURAL CONGRESS 1968

Nevertheless what they did that day provided an extraordinary legacy for our air force. they created this spirit of today, this discipline of today, this combativity of today, and there is a compensation when we consider what our air force has come to do; and it is a satisfaction to see the fruits of their sacrifices.

CASTRO'S AVIATION DAY SPEECH 1963

Courtship on the male's part is largely a display of combativity, and even the very gestures by which the male seeks to appeal to the female are often those gestures of angry hostility by which he seeks to intimidate enemies.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899