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- 1981 — The Bankers' Magazine, Volume 225, Issues 1648-1653, page 64:
- The extent of sterling's retreat showed 'a distinct loss of confidence in the Government's medium-term strategy,' and its behaviour 'should be a salutary reminder to Ministers that all is not well.'
- Less barbative reaction was to be encountered in the same paper's City Comment and in the Lex Column of the Financial Times.
- 1997 — Robin Chapman, The Secret of the World, Sinclair-Stevenson (1997), →ISBN, page 107:
- 'Well, Rodney, it's gotta be you behind that stupid mask — who else would bother? So what's wiv you this time, matey? More mouth, as ever?' How's that for barbative? Like there's no enemy like an ex-mate, is there?
- 2000 — John J. Parkinson-Bailey, Manchester: An Architectural History, Manchester University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 307:
- Osbert Lancaster, Here, of all Places, 1959, an amusing and barbative caricature of suburban housing.
- 2002 — Colleen McCullough, The October Horse, Simon and Schuster (2002), →ISBN, pages 580-581:
- Most of the time he lay among the shadows, left the conversation to his elders. Except for those sudden, uncannily prescient, occasionally barbative, remarks. Uttered quietly but firmly.
- 2006 — James E. Montgomery, "Editor's introduction", The Oral and the Written in Early Islam (by Gregor Schoeler, trans. Uwe Vagelpohl, ed. James E. Montgomery), Routledge (2006), →ISBN, page 10:
- It was the task of Islamic theology to defend the religion against polemical attack from other religions; originally, Christians, Manicheans, and Zoroastrians proved barbative opponents, though polemic against the Jews also emerged during the fourth/tenth century.