" He was called a man with a pugnacious task who went through, quote, "A dizzying free-for-all.
And Sourav Ganguly, the captain, has a pugnacious aggression that has helped make his team hard to beat.
Her angry critics saw her as a pugnacious destroyer of industry.
And fury has been stoked across the party by speculation that Ed Balls, the schools secretary, who has a long career as a pugnacious counsel to Mr Brown, is to replace Alistair Darling as chancellor.
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The same drive that has made him such a pugnacious entrepreneur pushes him to accumulate ever grander pieces, including monumental works by sculptors like Richard Serra, whose steel structures can stretch hundreds of feet, and room-size installations by artists like Mike Kelley.
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SRA's pugnacious chairman, has a long record in financing business projects such as Eurotunnel.
In the social world, marketing is a lot less pugnacious or irrelevant.
And, despite tales of a deep mutual antipathy between Mr Lake and Mr Holbrooke, it would be foolish to rule the pugnacious Mr Holbrooke out of contention for a big job.
Mr Norquist is the pugnacious founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements.
Tuesday, the pugnacious company announced that it has yet another prospect: trospium, a drug that would treat urinary incontinence.
Pugnacious and prolific, he wrote more than 100 books and was a prominent intellectual who wrote widely for Catholic publications, had a syndicated newspaper column and was a frequent TV commentator.
"Our clients are increasingly wealthy, " says Schwab's co-CEO, David Pottruck, 52, a former University of Pennsylvania football player who is as pugnacious and combustible as the founder, Charles Schwab, 63, is soft-spoken and laid back.
In that play, Linklater played a budding playwright frightened to share his work with his crass, pugnacious novelist-turned-tutor, played by Rickman.
With its "high unlovely body and pugnacious snout, " the Model T became the object of jokes, songs and a new American folklore.
But if early signs are anything to go by, a new policy is emerging which, if not exactly hawkish in the pugnacious sense, is more unilateralist than outsiders are accustomed to, stepping away from multilateral and regional entanglements that are deemed marginal to America's own security needs.
These pugnacious rogues (Napoleon, Wolf, Grub, Butcher and Grimm are some of their names) are a very different crew from Disney's loveable gold-diggers, but they're Singh's best defense against a wobbly, hit-and-miss script.
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