The 38-year-old Northern Irishman, a combative midfielder who refused to give opponents a moment's peace, was forced to cool his heels in recent weeks before learning he had landed his dream job.
As Congresswoman Giffords is a Democrat, fresh off a highly combative and nasty congressional race with a Tea Party backed candidate, the first reaction of many liberals will be to point a finger in the direction of the Tea Party.
Earlier this year, for example, Safar al-Hawali, a popular preacher once imprisoned for his combative views, launched a group called the World Campaign to Fight Aggression.
Rush and Firth give the film an animus and a combative urgency that are missing elsewhere.
It was just reward for a combative and composed display from the Wallabies, superbly guided by fly-half Giteau, who overshadowed his England counterpart Cipriani.
Disney's Pixar has previously taken a combative stance toward the oil industry, with one of its most powerful executives issuing blunt criticism of the business.
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If they were, then a combative ethnic metropolitan New York City-born politician would have headed the GOP ticket in 2008 and will again in 2012.
Not Manuel Asensio , a combative soul whose noisy frontal assaults on his targets have made him one of the least popular figures on Wall Street.
Hensarling, a combative Texan who will begin his fifth term in Congress in January, is slated to chair the House Republican Conference, the GOP caucus on the House side of the Capitol.
But while Palace had the fist sight on goal - a Ben Watson shot that sailed over - it was soon clear they would not have an easy task against a combative City side.
However, sometimes the counterpart takes a combative approach.
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When Elizabeth (Betsy) McCaughey was lieutenant governor of New York in the 1990s, forging a combative reputation for clashing with Governor George Pataki and her own party, she kept hearing from bereaved constituents whose loved ones had entered the hospital for treatment, only to die from infections they got there.
Feminism with Japanese characteristics--a less combative tone and greater emphasis on protecting motherhood--is different.
The combative William could use a little mellowing, but maybe he has been good for the buttoned-down company.
Indeed, he was in a notably combative mood when challenged by Labour's Johann Lamont about hospital waiting times.
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In "None Shall Pass, " underground rapper Aesop Rock comes off as a hip-hop fortuneteller, announcing what will happen in a distinctly combative way.
Some say the future is already predetermined, as a result of our short-sightedness, with water full of toxic waste and maybe even combative robots who see humans as a scourge on the tiny blue planet that we share.
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That brought in Brad Haddin with 167 needed at a rate of 8.1 per over, but the ever-combative Hussey rode his luck to reach a gritty 50 from 72 balls.
But critics of Perez Balladares, a beefy, combative millionaire businessman known as Toro, or Bull, say his actions are out of step with his words.
Having gone from leadership of the three major lawmaking institutions down to just one, House Republicans may vote in a much more combative leader in their suddenly uphill fight.
But there is also a more prickly side - a very defensive, combative Huckabee that we haven't seen much in the national media yet.
The combative left-arm seamer produced a stunning yorker that swung in to Katich and umpire Aleem Dar decided the ball was so full that it would have gone on to hit.
He was known during his seven terms in Washington as a vigorous defender of Democratic viewpoints, unafraid to get combative whether on cable TV or the House floor, and as a tireless and instinctive politician.
He was known during his seven terms in Washington as a vigorous defender of Democratic viewpoints, unafraid to get combative whether it was on cable TV or the House floor, and as a tireless and instinctive politician.
No reader of this deliciously combative book would ever compare him to a meek fawn.
Feisty, goofy, combative, unfathomable, this guy is a piece of work.
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His blunt, combative, decisive yet funny style is a mixture of Rudy Giuliani, New York City's former mayor, and Eliot Spitzer, New York's former steam-rolling governor.
Her conservative rival, Tony Abbott, who trained to be a priest and is equally combative but can be impulsive, believes voters will be uneasy at the callous way that Mr Rudd was ambushed by Labor heavyweights.
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