She said nothing while issues were being deliberated in cabinet, but when the meeting was over she would rush out to the reporters, grabbing the limelight as -- in your words -- a "sharp-tongued" talker.

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Stelios has a hard edge, his own executives privately citing his sharp-tongued "interpersonal skills" as a weakness.

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WHO, can be counted upon to enter almost any health debate as a sharp-tongued sceptic.

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Hardis, a sharp-tongued transplant from New York City, knows the model he'd like to follow: Emerson Electric, which gets its handsome multiple (20 times expected earnings) from operating performance rather than empire building.

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When Wood and co-presenters Adam Ferrara and Tanner Foust got a letter from the sharp-tongued Clarkson - who has said American focus groups "just don't get" the programme - they were understandably nervous.

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Goldman Sachs' head of public relations, the sharp-tongued Lucas van Praag, has gone from deflecting negative publicity about his firm to taking barbs as the subject of a blistering Twitter parody, authored by a group of financial bloggers who are sharp-tongued snarks in their own right.

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