1.   At the time, Giuliani seemed to relish the verbal combat, often appearing on network news programs.

2.   Actually, most of the specialists interviewed enforce their own standards, avoiding the shows that engage in heavy verbal combat.

3.   For Gore they reveal a policy aficionado who also has a gladiatorial instinct for verbal combat.

4.   Money aside, Pierce also said he loved the intensity and verbal combat of the Superior Court he once served on.

5.   This was politics at its rowdy best, bright minds locked in verbal combat, temper tantrums barely controlled, no cunning obfuscations tolerated.

6.   He relishes macho verbal combat, flinging insults with gusto.

7.   She regularly gets into verbal combat with President Carlos Menem, who dismisses her as a subversive troublemaker.