What some listeners may hear as incivility or rudeness may simply be the product of a broadcast journalist making a tenacious effort to steer an experienced politician toward providing responsive answers instead of reading from a scripted playbook of party messages.

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That, at any rate, is the belief of the Faeroese hardy and tenacious folk whose favourite delicacy, puffin chicks, can only be procured by dangling on a rope hundreds of feet below a sheer cliff-top and robbing the nests of unfortunate seabirds.

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America is fortunate to be represented in such negotiations by one of its most capable and tenacious representatives to the United Nations, Ambassador John Bolton.

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