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"pugnacious" Definitions
  1. having a strong desire to argue or fight with other people

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By all means master the art of being pugnacious in argument — but as a pugnacious dialogian, not a petulant didact.
Trump is also continuing his pugnacious campaign style into diplomacy.
Sound smart: Politics is growing more personal, polarized and pugnacious.
Be smart: Politics is growing more personal, polarized and pugnacious.
It was the ninth overall debate – and the most pugnacious.
This involved reformist Chinese scholars discreetly welcoming Mr Trump's pugnacious ways.
So far, they have not warmed to his bombastic, pugnacious style.
Pressuring him to step aside will only make him more pugnacious.
Could the pugnacious figure of Gingsanglek rout the precocious teen titan?
Soon enough, though, he was back to his normal pugnacious self.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a pugnacious hard-liner, succeeded Mr. Khatami as president.
The Democrat-controlled House prefers a less pugnacious label: Space Corps.
She will also try to return to her earlier pugnacious form.
Kaufmann, in his translations, brought to bear a strong, pugnacious style.
In Europe, however, the pugnacious side of Mr. Trump reasserted itself.
The famously pugnacious, conservative judge had been a vote against the rule.
There is much less to this than Donald Trump's pugnacious rhetoric suggests.
War with Britain's pugnacious press marks a sharp change in Labour strategy.
I would say right now that he's being more pugnacious than effective.
I would say right now he is being more pugnacious than effective.
Mr Christie, articulate and pugnacious, profited in inverse proportion to Mr Rubio.
He is been nicknamed "The Bulldozer", partly for his pugnacious management style.
As it is, the pugnacious novelist is doubtless spinning in his grave.
Mr. Khosrowshahi has forsworn his predecessor's infamously pugnacious way of doing business.
Xie remained optimistic and pugnacious, but he was also calmer, more aloof.
Michael Arrington, the pugnacious founder of TechCrunch, added a note of criticism.
Trump's pugnacious message evidently stirred people who hadn't voted in the past.
Mr. Cruz, a pugnacious, polished debater as a Princeton undergraduate, gave no quarter.
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN, Israel's pugnacious defence minister, is not one to mince his words.
But it is almost always a mistake to underestimate the pugnacious ex-president.
Pugnacious Chief Executive Michael O'Leary did get a helping hand from competitors, however.
His ideas were crass, often abhorrent, but they perfectly matched his pugnacious tone.
Chuck D's speechifying is pugnacious and mesmerizing, accented by Flavor Flav's urgent exhortations.
Also in Trump's favor is the fact that the pugnacious New Jersey Gov.
"These dogs are naturally pugnacious," Ms. Peng said in an interview last year.
Prodigy lived a bumpy and sometimes pugnacious life, including time served in prison.
But these young protesters are doing more than following Mr. Duterte's pugnacious lead.
It suggests tensions in the boardroom and with the bank's pugnacious chairman, Mark Tucker.
He picked men to be pugnacious and women for nice breasts and sexy stockings.
"Luther and the Avant-garde" is where "international modern art meets the pugnacious visionary".
Tales abound of tensions between Mr Diess and Bernd Osterloh, VW's pugnacious labour leader.
The fiery editorial followed a pugnacious tweet from the president on Tuesday attacking Sen.
Ms. Wang, 45, is known as a pugnacious lawyer with a penchant for controversy.
The film shows Ray as a pugnacious, nattily dressed skeleton who never stops smoking.
Pugnacious pundit and defense attorney Alan Dershowitz publicly took credit for persuading the President.
Mr. Breslin was grandstanding, pugnacious, in love with the very idea of Jimmy Breslin.
But this was clearly a huge win for the pugnacious strategist and his acolytes.
Carl C. Icahn is known for his pugnacious and persistent approach to activist investing.
Trump responded with pugnacious aggression, claiming "reverse discrimination" in a lawsuit that was soon dismissed.
He not only declares himself a socialist but gave a recent pugnacious speech defending it.
"Law clerk and sparring partner," the pugnacious Scalia says when he gives her the job.
Last year, Lockhart took his pugnacious style to another embattled institution, the National Football League.
The 59-year-old has been nicknamed "The Bulldozer", partly for his pugnacious management style.
Claudio Borghi, the League's often pugnacious economic spokesman, struck an unusually conciliatory tone on Tuesday.
In the private sector, Barr built a reputation as a pugnacious opponent of federal regulation.
Considered by many to be a visionary leader, Mr. Gilbert often strikes a pugnacious stance.
Last July, Drake found himself in a tiff with the pugnacious Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill.
Brushing off Mr. Rubio's pugnacious turn, Mr. Christie derided it as a fake, consultant-driven performance.
Hungary's pugnacious Prime Minister Viktor Orban has gained public support with his tough stance on migration.
After his court appearance, a pugnacious Mr. Zuma addressed thousands of supporters gathered near the courthouse.
According to those familiar with the situation, it was because the pugnacious entrepreneur felt under attack.
If future installments draw out Rose's headstrong, pugnacious attitude, they could make her into something unique.
Per The Bangor Daily News's Michael Shepherd, Maine's pugnacious governor released the document earlier this morning.
The pugnacious coach and defensive mastermind whose twin sons have been successful NFL coaches, died Tuesday.
Robinson's pugnacious brand of civil rights activism set the stage for succeeding generations of black athletes.
President Donald Trump echoed that pugnacious tone in remarks at the White House later on Monday.
He finally settled on the pugnacious conservationist David Brower, and set him against three unapologetic developers.
Trump's pugnacious attitude toward Mexico and its natives has led to extreme uncertainty about Constellation's ties there.
Her enthusiastic and often pugnacious transparency campaign has earned her praise from inside and outside the Beltway.
However, the biggest controversy of Moore's career to date has been his pugnacious approach to Donald Trump.
Given Bannon's pugnacious reputation, observers believe the campaign is now set on an even more aggressive path.
One of his close aides did, though, delivering a pugnacious speech aimed directly at the United States.
It's the latest sign that Ryan is hitching his wagon to the provocative and pugnacious president-elect.
" Farage told me that Banks is "very pugnacious," adding, "I've had plenty of screaming matches with him.
Hecht became so pugnacious in his attacks that his films were later boycotted in the United Kingdom.
But when he appeared, usually wearing a track suit, Mr. Ford often displayed his old pugnacious form.
So it would have been understandable and forgivable if Uwe had become a pugnacious, somewhat angry warrior.
A classic New Yorker — brilliant, tireless, pugnacious, funny, with an endless appetite for politics, culture and art.
Ms. Clifford's pugnacious lawyer, Michael J. Avenatti, quickly issued a statement to respond to Mr. Trump's claim.
"Did you just call me a bitch?" asks his questioner, the famously pugnacious conservative lawyer Larry Klayman.
"Look at the ranking minority member," one committee Democrat told VICE News, referring to the pugnacious Rep.
It was the most pugnacious debate so far and came three days before the crucial Nevada caucuses.
Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), among Kavanaugh's most pugnacious critics on the Judiciary Committee, said in an interview.
But under CEO Satya Nadella, who replaced the pugnacious Steve Ballmer in 2014, relations have markedly improved.
But now, ironically, Mattis has to contend with an even more pugnacious rival in the White House.
Michael Cohen: Cohen is Trump's pugnacious personal lawyer, known for aggressively defending his boss's interests during the campaign.
Some 20 MPs have reportedly endorsed these calls in private meetings with the pugnacious transport secretary, Chris Grayling.
For him, Gettysburg appeared to be a symbol of a pugnacious leader, and of the Civil War itself.
At the debate, Trump was his typical confident, pugnacious self, repeatedly defending himself and blasting Rubio and Cruz.
Jones found Kalanick to be "headstrong, pugnacious and hard-partying," a person familiar with Jones' thinking told Bloomberg.
With his blocky, heavily shadowed head, closely cropped hair and pugnacious gaze, he looks like a Hollywood gangster.
But the show's reverence for its pugnacious host, however credulous it might seem now, comes across as sincere.
A pugnacious prosecutor, Aldana helped to bring down the previous administration of ex-president Otto Perez in 2015.
Now both Republican and Democratic leaders are predicting a long, grim and pugnacious phase of the presidential race.
Led by pugnacious Euroskeptic David Davis, it also includes Trade Minister Liam Fox and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Tough, pugnacious and hilarious looking, the bulldog might as well have been bred to serve as a mascot.
But you leave "Divide and Conquer" energized and incensed, and with a grudging admiration for Ailes's pugnacious instincts.
And we see presidents exhibiting a myriad of emotions, depressed or elated, pugnacious or regretful, wise or foolish.
Mayer presents as a pugnacious Brooklyn street kid, a role he adopted upon arriving in America in 1938.
Pugnacious, yearning to be a genuine theological academic, Peters struck the historian as curiously impressive in some way.
When Rana Ayyub began considering a career in journalism, she showed some of the same pugnacious self-assertion.
A Judiciary member, he will now be expected to reprise his role as a pugnacious Trump defender. Rep.
Meanwhile, his family and their smartphones have assumed the work of crafting a softer image for the pugnacious president.
His pugnacious deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has been standing in for him at White House briefings in recent weeks.
" In his apology note, Kalanick admits the pugnacious attitude on display in the clip is "a reflection of me.
Whetstone reorganized the staff and let many people go, as well as temporarily tamping down its famously pugnacious image.
He is consistently inventive, pugnacious with syllables and prone to break into a husky, not-quite-steady singsong flow.
Youngstown was a pugnacious steel city of 167,000 when Loew was born, with boxing clubs anchored in many neighborhoods.
It was anger in all its shades: the fury-filled executive, the high-maintenance billionaire, the pugnacious Twitter troll.
The pugnacious foreign minister was later allowed into the ministry building to meet with Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra.
Mike Cugno of CNN affiliate WFOR shared the video on Twitter, where Irvin doubled down on his pugnacious statements.
But some sellers displayed their own merchandise, often recognizable at a distance by a profane or especially pugnacious message.
Even in their most pugnacious songs — like "Erora," which criticizes a rapacious elite — their music maintained an optimistic spirit.
For moderates, it means acknowledging that Sanders' pugnacious authenticity appeals to some swing voters more than wonkish centrism does.
In years past, there certainly have been plenty of references to Travis as a kind of pugnacious person. Right?
Some of her supporters were worried that leaving the Senate would have left Maine's pugnacious governor to appoint her replacement.
Quick-witted and pugnacious, his election rallies have drawn large crowds and opinion polls indicate that his popularity has surged.
But on Sunday, after a pugnacious tweetstorm and before the Brennan-Clapper appearance, Trump sort of walked back his comments.
Mr Trump's pugnacious, "America First" rhetoric alarms many members of the public in South Korea and such neighbours as Japan.
In place of the pugnacious Wayne Rooney is Harry Kane, a soft-spoken goal machine on the verge of superstardom.
Both are pugnacious, with hearty appetites for conflict and for attention from a news media they often condemn as biased.
It's a marked shift in tone for Cohen, who had previously touted his role as Trump's loyal and pugnacious fixer.
They want to disagree with Trump firmly but politely when necessary without picking a fight with the pugnacious front-runner.
But in Bolsonaro, Trump will find a doppelganger whose world view and pugnacious style are strikingly similar to his own.
It is not clear how well that approach will work with China, a much bigger and more pugnacious trading partner.
The parliamentary rebellion is embodied by John Bercow, the hyperarticulate, pugnacious speaker of the House of Commons, a nonpartisan position.
As a protest play, "The Fall" is naturally pugnacious, and not just in depicting the fight against the university administration.
President Trump, as in other matters, offered a pugnacious contrast to his predecessor, Barack Obama, and to some European leaders.
But he abruptly left the family business in 2005 after sparring with the pugnacious leader of Fox News, Roger Ailes.
Regeni's family has closed ranks, appointing a pugnacious lawyer as its gatekeeper, and begun their own investigation into his murder.
Scott Aiello, the actor who captures Cianci in all his pugnacious charm, recalled a recent trip to St. Ann Cemetery.
Mr. O'Reilly has long been the pugnacious face of a prime-time lineup that sets the tone for conservative commentary.
Energetic and pugnacious, he earned widespread popularity by adopting a more nationalistic platform, including promoting Russian interests in neighboring countries.
Obituary: Yuri Luzhkov, a pugnacious politician who died on Tuesday in Munich, served as Moscow's mayor from 1992 to 2010.
After receiving his doctorate, Mr. Rockefeller became a secretary to Fiorello H. La Guardia, New York's pugnacious, liberal Republican mayor.
He won only about 7 percent of votes on Tuesday, despite a pugnacious performance at a Republican debate last weekend.
Justice Antonin Scalia had a range that extended from in-your-face brash to an even-more-in-your-face pugnacious.
It wasn't until a group of major Uber investors demanded his resignation in June that the pugnacious CEO finally stepped down.
Nelson A. Rockefeller created the job and selected Mr. Nadjari, who had been a pugnacious, high-profile prosecutor for 2100 years.
At the news conference, Trump showed flashes of the pugnacious willingness to dispense with formality that helped him win the Nov.
Trump's previous proposals on preventing terrorism by extremists embody the pugnacious style that marked his unlikely climb to the GOP nomination.
Despite her lack of appeal among party activists, Ms Feinstein still seems likely to prevail over her pugnacious rival among voters.
Mahathir has been prime minister of the Muslim Malay-majority nation earlier, for 303 years, governing in a tough, pugnacious style.
In advanced-stage cancer, it's generally a matter of when, not if, the pugnacious surviving cells will become an unstoppable force.
After the war he became a nightclub owner in Paris — a great business for someone who was both charming and pugnacious.
Some RSC members and GOP aides say Jordan's pugnacious personality and savvy communication skills would serve him well as minority leader.
But in a book packed with pugnacious argument, he only implicitly offers rules for when to remember and when to forget.
A poorly informed, impatient and pugnacious leader can cause devastation, and that's true of either Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump.
On Twitter, I suggested that Trump was pugnacious, pugilistic, preening and puerile, and asked for other P words to describe him.
"Reid was known for his pugnacious personality and less afraid of collateral damage," said Andrea Hatcher, who studies Senate leadership styles.
Staff members were scared and shaken after public complaints of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein, the entertainment company's pugnacious co-founder.
Even if he still does not like Mr. Bolton's mustache, Mr. Trump may be drawn to the pugnacious manliness it represents.
His impulsive and pugnacious manner — which served him well on the campaign trail — has caused consternation now that he is president.
Reawakened today, it needs to remain ever alert and pugnacious in pursuit of the justice it seeks, despite threats of repression.
A two-fisted piano boogie with a pugnacious slide guitar, "Wasted Words" is a surly lover's quarrel escalated to theological ground.
The Haggler A few pugnacious companies out there are skeptical about the age-old maxim that the customer is always right.
But it was far from clear that his performance on Monday, combative and pugnacious, would be enough to salvage his candidacy.
The people advising Mr. Trump on trade have records of advocating a pugnacious response to what they portray as Chinese predations.
Maybe he wants his own pugnacious Michael Avenatti-like figure in the press for him, and that's why he hired Davis.
Hurst; £20 A biography of an embattled, pugnacious prime minister by our Israel correspondent, tracing his rise from MIT student to leader.
That is an uncommonly pugnacious statement for a firm that operates behind the scenes and uses public pressure as a last resort.
Mr Ince, who had run a pugnacious, entertaining campaign, capped by a huge rally in Istanbul, finished on a surprisingly feeble note.
That's why some volunteers of the Alpine Rescue, led by pugnacious geologist Gianni Scalella, are flying over 2500 square kilometers using drones.
U.S. Congressional elections For many Americans, Tuesday's congressional midterm elections are a referendum on Trump's divisive persona, hardline policies and pugnacious politics.
The big picture: Two years into Donald Trump's pugnacious and unpredictable presidency, polls show the world's view of U.S. leadership falling sharply.
The pugnacious Mr Fico, who has been in power for nine of the past eleven years, has a habit of insulting journalists.
Yet in a country with a romantic fascination for revolutionary talk, his pugnacious style and crowd-pleasing promises carry a nostalgic appeal.
It was reminiscent of the news conferences that another pugnacious New Yorker, Rudolph W. Giuliani, held when he was the city's mayor.
Otherwise, you can't have escaped Avenatti, who's become a non-stop self-promoting cable news jockey and pugnacious scourge of President Trump.
But it would be a mistake to lay Washington and Ankara's troubled relations at the feet of Turkey's charismatic and pugnacious president.
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who was a pugnacious and extremely prolific writer, would probably be a fierce Twitter and Facebook user today.
So far, there has been a wide gap between the administration's pugnacious rhetoric on Iran and the absence of much tougher actions.
The campaign stage didn't suit the low-key congressman, who struggled to defend his fiscal analysis when faced with more pugnacious scrutiny.
His pugnacious style helped Uber expand aggressively, but was also blamed for a string of setbacks that have since plagued the company.
It makes Trump's worldview — venal, greedy, pugnacious, and myopic — into the official US stance on the world's most difficult collective action problem.
Increasingly wedded to pugnacious nationalism, it spurns the liberal values espoused by Turgenev but still reveres him as part of the family.
In the past month of campaigning, Mr. Ince's witty and pugnacious speeches challenging Mr. Erdogan at public meetings have inspired the Turks.
Mr. Percoco was extremely loyal to the governor, working behind the scenes to protect him, using his political muscle with pugnacious verve.
The most mature colonies in Reinberg's collection belong to a species called the "jumping ant," a pugnacious social insect from southern India.
Kalanick's pugnacious style turned Uber into the world's largest ride-services company that revolutionized the taxi industry and challenged transportation regulations worldwide.
Ayres, the Republican pollster, says Trump's unbending response to impeachment underlines the pugnacious take-no-prisoners posture that thrills his core supporters.
Part of the problem underlying disputes over such contacts may be Mr. Trump's pugnacious style, which usually leaves little room for nuance.
Michael Cohen, Trump's fiercely loyal and pugnacious lawyer, disclosed Hannity's name through one of his own lawyers at the order of the judge.
But Mr. Trump has steadfastly defended him, even as he has been sidelined from the pugnacious television appearances that Mr. Trump, alone, appreciated.
The pugnacious new leader made the comments in Davao City, the southern Filipino city where he served as mayor for over two decades.
In his view, the New Right is a movement defined not by discrimination or hateful rhetoric, but by pugnacious political commentary and debate.
But investors have been unnerved by unpredictable policies from the government of President John Magufuli, nicknamed "The Bulldozer" for his pugnacious governing style.
The other big story on the GOP side was Rubio's increasingly pugnacious attacks on Trump as a "con man" with stubby little fingers.
Do you think there needs to be a better understanding between cities and these companies, given the pugnacious relationship we've seen with Uber?
"And then you drive something as exquisitely pugnacious and brilliantly assembled as the M5 and you suddenly don't much care about cool anymore."
Having added QPR to their portfolio via Jim Gregory – a "pugnacious, semi-literate, self-made wheelerdealer" (The Evening Standard) – Bulstrode hatched a plan.
Why it matters: A pugnacious left, along with President Trump's court victories, is showing what strong, niceties-be-damned politics can get you.
Opinion polls show a tight contest to succeed the pugnacious term-limited governor, Paul R. LePage, whose lieutenants are guiding Mr. Moody's campaign.
The perception that everyone vapes points to the biggest obstacle in persuading teenagers to quit: the pugnacious, peer-glued nature of adolescence itself.
Some might see this discouraging episode as a reason to back away from a more openly pugnacious approach on the part of scientists.
Bill O'Reilly, the pugnacious and top-rated talk show host, had been ousted that day after allegations of sexual harassment involving multiple women.
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and adviser, supported firing Mr. Comey, but he has been less pugnacious lately, administration officials said.
And it was the purest pop distillation of the pugnacious sound that had been developing on the streaming site for almost three years.
Lewandowski's pugnacious behavior and refusal to answer questions has triggered a new wave of Democrats to voice support for holding him in contempt.
"The Travis factor hangs over everything," said one source, which make the pugnacious CEO seem like a troublesome black cloud or capricious guillotine.
Immelt had spent a lot of time with the pugnacious Uber founder and was supportive of keeping him very involved in the company.
Why would Kalanick — a pugnacious CEO known to be ultra competitive — trust someone starting their own self-driving company to guide his own?
As political donors and primary voters have become more pugnacious, they expect politicians they back to fight harder, says David Gamage at Indiana University.
Is it unfair of me to blame the pugnacious ousted CEO and co-founder of Uber for all the sins of his arrogant bros?
Within the Republican Party there is clearly an appetite for the kind of pugnacious rhetoric one often hears on the streets of the city.
Even among better-educated urban residents, north-easterners are often stereotyped as quarrelsome and pugnacious, and Henanese are commonly regarded as thieves and cheats.
Antonin Scalia, whom he is nominated to replace, was a pugnacious lover of intellectual battle, often caustic in rhetoric and inclined to sharpen differences.
Kalanick has retained a firm grip on the company since its founding in 2009, and his pugnacious manner has helped shape Uber's aggressive style.
The effect, surely unintended, is to reduce the novel's human palette, so that Aden's pugnacious individuality stands out in relief against her new world.
Mr. Lombardi doesn't quite come across as the pugnacious but lovable nerd that Tom Bosley, who originated the role, certainly did, even on recording.
There was no telling how far Hungary's pugnacious prime minister, Viktor Orban, would have gone in mistreating refugees trying to cross into his country.
Given her pugnacious presence from the podium, was she puzzled that a pack of journalists were so eager to see her off in style?
At times, it became abundantly clear that he was trying, at least to some extent, to recast himself from pugnacious lawyer to palatable politician.
When Senator Marco Rubio, the pugnacious Florida Republican, stepped out of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to speak with reporters, Mr. Jones homed in.
Mr. Gonzalez, who is known as Timbo, said that these days, professional handballers from New York stand out in competitions for their pugnacious style.
Mr. Lewandowski, a pugnacious loyalist of Mr. Trump's who is considering a Senate run in New Hampshire, was never going to make it easy.
Opinionated, blunt and occasionally pugnacious, he appeared regularly on the topical radio program "Les Grandes Gueules" ("The Big Mouths") from its inception in 2004.
"I would say right now that he's being more pugnacious than effective," Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, told the radio host Laura Ingraham.
Following the failed summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un in February, North Korea has both restarted its test launches and maintained its pugnacious rhetoric.
At the event immediately preceding his town-hall event here, Mr. Cruz had vowed that he would not lob personal insults at his pugnacious rival.
The big picture: As Trump has transformed the Republican Party in his nationalist and pugnacious image, the tech policy debate on the right has followed.
There was a moment of amazing and incredibly awkward television on CNN Wednesday afternoon, when Brianna Keilar interviewed famously pugnacious Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen.
And as he got older, ever more pugnacious, he harbored an increasing disdain for Charles Darwin, distinct from but alongside his disdain for molecular biology.
But in an allusion to Mr. Christie's pugnacious style and the rancor of the Trump era, the new governor vowed to chart a different course.
But Mr. LePage's pugnacious personality spurred support for a referendum in 2016 to switch to a method that required the winner to obtain a majority.
He also throws in a healthy dose of another of his artistic trademarks -- pugnacious hatred of women, plus some outdated pop culture references to boot.
" Grimm, a former FBI agent who has a more brash, pugnacious style, brushed aside Trump's endorsement of Donovan, saying it "didn't bother me at all.
Mário Soares, the pugnacious Socialist leader who guided Portugal's rocky transition to democracy in the 1970s after decades of dictatorship, died on Saturday in Lisbon.
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - For many Americans, Tuesday's congressional midterm elections are a referendum on Republican President Donald Trump's divisive persona, hard-line policies and pugnacious politics.
Beyond the Trump-Cruz theatrics, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida turned in a pugnacious performance with attacks on Cruz and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Full transcript: President Donald Trump's news conference Since taking office, Trump's pugnacious persona has at times appeared stifled by the formal surroundings of the White House.
A steady earnestness has served Pichai well in the past, but managing all the controversies now swirling around his company may require a more pugnacious approach.
A pugnacious politician considered one of Latin America's best orators, Garcia had long been dogged by graft allegations that he brushed off as baseless political smears.
In the middle, Spacey's pugnacious face stares at the viewer, in much the same way it does during his to-camera interludes in House of Cards.
The self-effacing Will Straw, its executive director, is hardly an attack dog, unlike his counterparts at Vote Leave, Matthew Elliott and the pugnacious Dominic Cummings.
The pugnacious younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, Bobby served, in his capacity as attorney general, as his brother's chief political enforcer, strategist, and confidant.
His pugnacious campaign style, which includes personal insults directed at rivals and scathing criticism of protesters, has been criticized for encouraging physical altercations at his rallies.
For the last three months, Uber has been seeking a chief operating officer to work alongside Kalanick, who has earned a reputation as a pugnacious leader.
Notoriously pugnacious, Churchill is nobody's first choice, and even he realizes that the job he has long coveted comes to him at the worst imaginable time.
Collins's pugnacious attitude is well known in tennis, and something she readily acknowledges and embraces, calling it "just part of the deal with me" on court.
"You leave 'Divide and Conquer' energized and incensed, and with a grudging admiration for Ailes's pugnacious instincts," Ben Kenigsberg wrote in his review for The Times.
The pugnacious former lawyer for Stormy Daniels pleaded not guilty to charges of extortion and fraud, then said he was a victim of politically motivated retribution.
Relentlessly pugnacious, energized by a fight, unwilling to let any slight go unanswered, Mr. Trump has made himself America's apostle of anger, its deacon of divisiveness.
Unlike some retired Chinese diplomats, he did not comment publicly as his country's foreign policy grew more pugnacious in recent years, especially under President Xi Jinping.
The pugnacious former New York mayor himself lawyered up after getting a subpoena Monday from three House committees demanding materials about his communications with Ukrainian officials.
A lot has been made in the media of Ted Cruz's demeanor: Pugnacious and harsh, he garners near-unanimous condemnation from fellow senators, Republican and Democrat alike.
Ainge, 56, at least has an organizational résumé, as a pugnacious guard on two Celtics championship teams during the 1980s, better known as the Larry Bird era.
In award-winning comics artist and writer Jeff Lemire's ink and watercolor graphic novel Roughneck, a pugnacious former defenseman can't steer through a weekday without a drink.
Republican convention 2016 viewers guide Derek Smith, publisher of the "Thunder Roads Ohio" magazine, said Trump's pugnacious politics make him a natural fit for the biker culture.
Australia exports so much beef to China that the Global Times, a pugnacious state-owned newspaper, has suggested crimping the trade to punish Australia for various provocations.
The pugnacious new leader made the comments in a speech Sunday in Davao City, the southern Filipino city where he served as mayor for over two decades.
His closest real connection to Nixon, whose pugnacious spirit he's spent decades publicly venerating, is a tattoo of the man's face, etched famously now onto Stone's back.
But the pugnacious aircraft's fearsome firepower, shark-toothed visage, and successful track record saving ground troops time and time again has earned it a fervent fan base.
Brayden, the fifth overall pick in the 25 draft, arrived with the pugnacious winger Wayne Simmond in a 210 trade that sent Mike Richards to the Kings.
A pugnacious left-hander with an occasionally combustible temper, Rose won the 1954 Australian Open and the 1958 French Open along with five grand slam doubles crowns.
Bush's brand of pugnacious nationalism emphasized America's high-minded ideals, while Trump is more likely to invade a country to take the oil than to spread democracy.
The question remains whether the pugnacious Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, would follow suit or keep trying to draw a clear contrast between the two candidates.
Rodriguez's pugnacious late-1960s strips paid tribute to provocative publisher EC Comics, and answered its censors, while taking cues from Marvel's superhero comics and Marlon Brando films.
Schuyler was prolific, pugnacious and very much in the public eye; Larsen was recessive, and vanished from literary life after publishing two novels and a few stories.
Adams, meanwhile, showed the same hyperactive motor and pugnacious impulses that have earned him early-career raves with his club, the Red Bulls of Major League Soccer.
Bloomberg's well-funded social media operation has been quick to hit back at Trump, and the candidate himself brought that same pugnacious attitude to his Florida rally.
Cleaning up yet another mess created by his pugnacious predecessor Travis Kalanick, the former Expedia CEO flew to London yesterday to prostrate himself before regulators this morning.
Representative Jim Jordan A Trump favorite on Capitol Hill, the pugnacious Ohio Republican has been one of the president's biggest and most forceful defenders throughout the inquiry.
In a statement to CNN, Stone described his former aide as a "pugnacious bantam rooster" who is both blunt and genuine in his commitment to personal freedoms.
Trump has denied the affair took place and has blasted Avenatti repeatedly as the pugnacious lawyer continues to rail against Trump and step into the political sphere.
The rookie Pavel Buchnevich, benched by Vigneault because of inconsistent play, was back in the lineup Tuesday for the second straight game, replacing the pugnacious Tanner Glass.
King is well-known for a pugnacious stye in interviews and on social media that has led to a number of controversies on issues such as immigration.
Among those most prominent Tea Party conservatives pounding the table for significant spending cuts was Mick Mulvaney, a pugnacious Republican lawyer and state lawmaker from South Carolina.
IT IS no surprise that a fast-tweeting, pugnacious president, with little regard for diplomatic niceties or enthusiasm for treaty obligations, is not much liked outside his borders.
Santa Ana Zegache, a Zapotec community of about 3,000, is a grid of quiet streets and adobe compounds known for its pugnacious residents and elaborate 17th-century church.
TORONTO — Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family said.
Floyd Long, was known as the "cussing preacher," a pugnacious man who built churches and left after clashing with the deacons -- those members who traditionally ran Baptist churches.
After a roundabout discussion about debt relief and aid, conducted in Spanish and English, the pugnacious mayor of Ponce says she slammed her fist onto Mr Rubio's desk.
Anwar told a news conference at his home on Wednesday that he had forgiven Mahathir, who was a pugnacious and uncompromising prime minister for 22 years from 1981.
He produced two jagged towers, one of white blocks, one of black, angel and devil in their continual confrontation, contending on either side of Khrushchev's pugnacious, unseeing face.
Mr Davutoglu was credited with shaping his country's foreign policy over the past decade, and foreign observers viewed him as a moderate who restrained Mr Erdogan's pugnacious instincts.
Under Roger E. Ailes, its pugnacious former chairman, who died last week, Fox News followed a mantra of "never apologize," weathering all manner of controversies over its coverage.
A notch pricklier than Barris, Anderson has a pugnacious charm and a low tolerance for nonsense: after "Hope" aired, he sparred with critics who called the show racist.
The WHO statement is not the first time international organisations have queried information from the government of President John Magufuli, nicknamed The Bulldozer for his pugnacious ruling style.
Here too Mr. Trump celebrated the "toughness" of Mr. Letterman's response (the host pressed for an arrest), saying he wished more people would take Mr. Letterman's pugnacious approach.
It was the scribbled footnote that did it, rippling across social media networks from northern New Jersey to Washington, revealing a pugnacious side of a low-key lawmaker.
One of the Trump administration's first major tests of its confrontational approach to trade will bring Vice President Mike Pence head to head with his pugnacious Japanese counterpart.
The notoriously pugnacious former Uber executive already sits on at least two boards, including Uber's and, most recently, Kareo, a medical startup he was an angel investor in.
LONDON — Just past the entrance to the airy headquarters of The Daily Mail, Britain's pugnacious and politically powerful publication, stands a sculpture of three small spheres with wings.
He thinks even some hardline conservatives realize there are only five months left in the fiscal year, so this might not be the best use of their pugnacious potential.
The second came when Christian Lindner, pugnacious leader of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), blew up her bid to form a "Jamaica" coalition with his party and the Greens.
Clinton has been holding mock debates preparing, first for the pugnacious and bullying Trump we saw in his Republican primary debates, and more recently, for a gentler, gracious Trump.
The juxtapositions continue: Fiercely oscillating piano clusters battle pugnacious figures on the violin; passages of dreamy Romantic lyricism are interrupted by slammed piano chords, sometimes played with the forearms.
Scavino, a former golf caddie for Trump turned campaign aide and pugnacious White House social media chief, is frequently seen at the President's side and on his Twitter feed.
By aggressively deploying his small army of workers — he has 1,600 of them — Mr. Cordray has turned the fledgling agency into one of Washington's most powerful and pugnacious regulators.
In England, we watch Bela give a speech, and he is almost shy — this little man, by turns ingratiating and pugnacious, who insists on the primacy of political art.
He said Kalanick's pugnacious personality served him well in life and business, but might not so easily work for one of the highest-profile business leaders in the world.
Today, we're offering the first taste of what to expect from New Moody Judy: the pugnacious "Dream Come Now," a barnstormer every bit as fiery as the album art.
Austin Scott Lombardi, shiny leading man, is oddly cast as the pugnacious New York mayor of the title, but the music and witty lyrics retain their charms (13:30).
Austin Scott Lombardi, shiny leading man, is oddly cast as the pugnacious New York mayor of the title, but the music and witty lyrics retain their charms (23212:4152).
Trump understands this and dressed this time around, at least to a certain extent, to make a point: to offer a different image to that of her pugnacious husband.
It wasn't the first provocative comment from Mr. O'Leary, a pugnacious leader who transformed Europe's airline industry with an aggressive cost-cutting approach that extended to the work force.
While Kudlow and Mnuchin pushed back, the President found support in other aides, namely his pugnacious trade adviser Peter Navarro, who egged Trump on to Kudlow and Mnuchin's dismay.
The campaign showed that a pugnacious strategy on Twitter against Donald Trump nets cable news headlines, high engagement and excites those whose sole goal is messing with the president.
Pressured at home and abroad to leave the country, Mr. Saleh responded with pugnacious defiance and stalling tactics, promising to step down and then reneging at the last minute.
At this show, he played the pugnacious and proud "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," and also "American Soldier," a meditative embrace of patriotic dedication.
And DHS may soon be poised to get a more pugnacious leader on the subject, increasing the chance that the agency asserts itself more on topics like border crossings.
But Mr. Lewandowski is also pugnacious, fiercely loyal to Mr. Trump and contemplating a Senate run in New Hampshire — and he has pledged to "fight back" against the Democrats.
Mr. Francesa's pugnacious and prescient political arguments with outraged callers, as well as the thank yous from those in agreement, became such a dominant feature of his 1 p.m.
While the president has long appreciated Giuliani's pugnacious and never-back-down attitude, Trump allies fear Giuliani will damage Trump with his long-winded monologues and free-wheeling accusations.
I am not sure even Mr. Jobs, the pugnacious Apple founder and chief executive who mastered the media, would have tried to pull off what Mr. Bezos has done.
It includes a pugnacious remake of "Fist City" as well as a song first recorded by T. Graham Brown, "Wine Into Water": a prayerful plea to break free of alcohol.
The 20404-year-old Israeli is the charismatic and pugnacious host of a nightly news show called The Patriots on a new channel trying to model itself after Fox News.
Elected to the house amid the Tea Party rebellion of 2385, he struck a pugnacious stance on government shutdowns and the debt limit, and eventually helped found the Freedom Caucus.
Elected to the House amid the tea party rebellion of 2010, he struck a pugnacious stance on government shutdowns and the debt limit, and eventually helped found the Freedom Caucus.
But Hollande, who was more pugnacious and confident than in a TV interview earlier this year which had unanimously been judged as poor by commentators, said his reforms were working.
Partisans were split on the subject of relations with China, with 21625 percent of Republicans favoring more pugnacious relations toward the country in comparison to just 2900 percent of Democrats.
It was indeed Bloomberg's house, but the most representative figure of that time and long before, the alpha dog in the house, might have been the pugnacious novelist Norman Mailer.
Tekashi 6ix9ine first gained attention with a pugnacious and gritty New York street-rap sound, along with his rainbow-colored hair and his dozens of tattoos of the number 69.
Austin Scott Lombardi, a shiny leading man, is oddly cast as the pugnacious New York mayor of the title, but the music and witty lyrics retain their charms (2:30).
G.R. The alto saxophonist Mat Walerian seems to have a cooling effect on Matthew Shipp, an influential pianist whose free-form playing can be effusive to the point of pugnacious.
The basic argument is that a polarizing, high-stakes confrontation could make the pugnacious, dominance-obsessed president less likely to give in, for fear he'd be seen as a loser.
Mr. Reich, the pugnacious economist and ardent critic of income inequality, has spent his career railing against Wall Street and what he sees as its corrosive influence on American society.
The gracious Dr. Faust, in some ways an unlikely choice to lead the university because she did not attend Harvard, was viewed as the antidote to Dr. Summers's pugnacious style.
Despite the Tea Party's pugnacious reputation, Ribble, who attended divinity school, is soft-spoken, and is known in the House for his speeches about improving discourse between the two parties.
It's no surprise to me why, given the pugnacious slipping into malevolent DNA of the culture, all created by its early leaders, who celebrated their aggression with, well, more aggression.
In the face of a seemingly neverending subsidy war, Uber sold its operations to its equally pugnacious rival Didi Chuxing and got a stake in the company for its troubles.
As one of the country's most eminent leaders, he was pugnacious, uncompromising and intolerant of dissent, but turned Malaysia from a sleepy backwater into one of the world's modern industrialized nations.
But those goals put it at odds with right-wing politicians such as Mr Abbott and Peter Dutton, the pugnacious home-affairs minister who spearheaded the coup against Mr Turnbull. GetUp!
Thankfully, this pugnacious little star—called WD 1425+540—is located 170 lightyears away from Earth in the constellation Boötes, which may or may not be a piece of IKEA furniture.
From the fist pump punctuating his formal address on the Capitol steps, to his pugnacious talk prefacing a slow-dance at black-tie balls, Donald Trump did his inauguration his way.
Mr. Martinez — 55, stocky, pugnacious and combative — ordered over 600 buses to ferry union protesters from the provinces to a march here, which drew tens of thousands of demonstrators on Tuesday.
The pugnacious kids were recent immigrants to the States, perhaps eager to hold onto some form of nativist identity by bashing the heads of anyone who spoke strangely or looked different.
The network's pugnacious style and its position as a platform for conservative politics and ideas have made it a hit with an audience that felt ill-served by other news outlets.
White House officials sought to reassure tech industry representatives at a private meeting last week that the Trump administration's pugnacious trade policies will ultimately aid their businesses, according to multiple sources.
Lucas has long represented a certain pugnacious factor of the feminist art scene, and the New Museum's retrospective illuminates how fundamental and funny her criticisms of the art historical canon are.
President Trump has doubled down on sanctions in the standoff with the North, dismissed talks as a waste of time, stepped up military drills and rattled the region with pugnacious threats.
This has already been a contentious and pugnacious presidency, with Trump, his political opponents, and critics in the news media never pausing from their battles with each other since day one.
There's Yara Greyjoy, the pugnacious lesbian daughter of misogynist seafarers; there's Ellaria, a bisexual orgy-and-revenge buff from egalitarian Dorne, and her sultry army of daughter figures, the Sand Snakes.
Trump on Wednesday told a U.N. Security Council meeting that Beijing was interfering because they did not want his Republican Party to do well, given the party's pugnacious stance on trade.
Mr. Christie was pugnacious from his first statement, while Mr. Bush mixed ridicule — mostly aimed at Mr. Rubio — with sobering lectures, fighting about his policy ideas on missile defense and eminent domain.
"Criminals will always get guns because Chuck's sells to the criminals," is a frequent saying of Father Michael Pfleger, a pugnacious Catholic priest, who has led several demonstrations in front of Chuck's.
Khosrowshahi struck a conciliatory tone in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper, suggesting Uber was open to finding compromise with local lawmakers, a break in style with his pugnacious predecessor, Travis Kalanick.
And the usually pugnacious representative Mark Meadows, one of Trump's biggest allies in the House, said he didn't want to question the loyalty of a guy who'd earned a Purple Heart. Okay.
It's a pugnacious patriotism that one can hear in country singer Merle Haggard's song, "The Fighting Side of Me." Haggard released the song as anti-war protests surged during the Vietnam War.
The pugnacious Trump has assailed world leaders and just last weekend insulted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after a trade dispute at the G7 summit of industrialized nations - a meeting of allies.
A member of the Republican leadership in the Senate, he would like to "turn down the heat a bit" on some of the pugnacious tweets from Mr Trump aimed at North Korea.
Yet the pugnacious Mr Sarkozy, whose recent book about his mistakes in office shot to the top of the bestseller list, retains star appeal and support from the hard-core party faithful.
To admirers he is the embodiment of a revived national spirit, a man of the people elevated to worldly glory, a pugnacious righter of wrongs and a bold defender of the faith.
For weeks Mr Cruz has sought to portray Indiana as the all-important turning point in the campaign, so a poor result would be a devastating blow for the pugnacious Cuban-American.
The laws aim to end what Magufuli, nicknamed "the Bulldozer" for both his time as public works minister and his pugnacious management style, has called years of corrupt practices and tax evasion.
Macron won Sunday's run-off vote by an emphatic margin over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, whose pugnacious anti-European Union, nativist rhetoric jarred with the Olympic community's world view.
In the most pugnacious manner imaginable, that doctrine posits a future of endless competition and conflict in the Arctic, growing ever more intense as the planet warms and the ice cap melts.
" Though born in England, the man who calls himself the Gypsy King" is part of a semi-nomadic Irish group that's known for being loquacious and pugnacious -- great talkers and great fighters.
JON CARAMANICA Beginning in the early 2000s, N.E.R.D — Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (the production duo the Neptunes) and Shae Haley — created inventive and pugnacious punk-funk born from hip-hop DNA.
That's because he is the most prominent—some would say the most radical and pugnacious—figure among a new crop of prosecutors who are seeking to reshape a broken criminal justice system.
Michael Edwardes, a famously pugnacious industrial turnaround artist in Britain who rescued the Jaguar, Mini and Land Rover automotive brands in the late 1970s while becoming a union scourge, died on Sept.
With Trump, the line begs the question whether the former reality television star might use his pugnacious personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani or just make the trip down Pennsylvania Avenue and defend himself.
President Xi is stalling until he gets a Democrat in the White House, while the pugnacious posture of President Trump is alienating friends and isolating not China but the United States instead.
While conservative priorities — like deregulation and nominating conservative judges — have been more or less successfully brought to fruition, the last remaining fragment of "Trumpism" appears to be Donald Trump's exceedingly pugnacious Twitter feed.
While Christie has slashed Rubio in public, calling him, among other epithets, a "boy in the bubble," Bush has been less pugnacious, allowing his super PAC to do much of the dirty work.
The Islanders' pugnacious fourth line helped out Halak by shoving the puck away from him immediately after the opening face-off, firing three shots at Schneider by the time 14 seconds had elapsed.
But that ignored the attitude of Matteo Salvini, the pugnacious head of the League, who initially said that all he wanted was a date for fresh elections, but not until after the summer.
Mahathir, dubbed the "Father of Modern Malaysia" during his previous 22 years in power until 2003, was known for his strong-arm, sometimes pugnacious style of rule, marked by an intolerance for dissent.
NGOs were livid that someone they considered to be a rogue candidate for a civil-society board seat—backed by a pugnacious former British politician, Eric Joyce—had been allowed on the ballot.
There, talks over the sale of Rosneft's local business to the regional government have pitted Igor Sechin, the pugnacious chief executive of the state oil group, against Ramzan Kadyrov, the region's belligerent leader.
Trump's Tuesday comments unnerved allies in the region and drew criticism from some politicians and foreign policy experts at home as needlessly pugnacious at a time when more measured language would be appropriate.
The best paintings bring Mr. Monaghan's own generational perspective (he was born in 1986) to bear on the Imagists' legacy, dropping their rubbery and pugnacious figures into narratives of contemporary surveillance and voyeurism.
Mahathir, dubbed the "Father of Modern Malaysia" during his previous 22 years in power until 2003 was known for his strong-arm, sometimes pugnacious style of rule, marked by an intolerance for dissent.
Trump-Christie would not only be a truly pugnacious combination, but would also put two metropolitan New Yorkers together and, given Christie's unfavorable status in New Jersey, that's likely not a good selection.
Avenatti has become a constant media presence and pugnacious critic of Trump and Cohen since his client sued them both to be released from a nondisclosure agreement she signed before the 2016 election.
Elisabeth Moss's furious incarnation of an out-of-control rocker on a quest for redemption is matched by the lacerating dialogue and pugnacious cinematography of Alex Ross Perry's "Her Smell" (opening April 12).
"We're not going to go in there and make a mistake," said Dowd, a pugnacious ex-Marine, recalling how he pushed back against Trump being interviewed even though the president had expressed willingness.
In the remarks, Trump delivered a doomsday warning to North Korea and mocked its young leader, a pugnacious escalation in rhetoric in a wide-ranging debut address to the world's foremost diplomatic body.
This wasn't always the case: Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick was known as a pugnacious defender of surge pricing, who was reluctant to back down in spite of overwhelming disapproval.
But this time around, as he runs for re-election on Wednesday against a pugnacious former general who has embraced the language of hard-line, Middle Eastern Islam, Mr. Joko is veering rightward.
And while he was considered a fringe contender, his pugnacious style and cable-news ubiquity as a nightly Trump tormentor won him a passionate fan base in some corners of the Democratic Party.
Dodgers third baseman Manny Machado, whose pugnacious baserunning in this series has angered some Brewers, was forcefully booed — first in pregame introductions, then when he stepped to the plate in the first inning.
Despite the obvious differences between a pugnacious politician and an idealistic minister, they were essentially on the same page, reading and voicing the same lessons of freedom and redemption for the United States.
Its first SummerStage show, on Wednesday, July 12, is likely to be packed with fans of Princess Nokia, the Nuyorican rapper, born Destiny Frasqueri, whose pugnacious rhymes are full of nervy uptown attitude.
The Breitbart mind-set — pugnacious, besieged, paranoid and determined to impose its own framework on current events regardless of facts — has moved from the right-wing fringe to the center of Republican politics.
"Google's legal team is notoriously pugnacious, but this is a new low," said Luther Lowe, Yelp's VP of public policy and government affairs who has spent years criticizing the search giant before policymakers.
Instead, the president and his team appeared embattled and defensive, signaling that the pugnacious style Mr. Trump employed as a candidate will persist now that he has ascended to the nation's highest office.
And last week, Marine Le Pen, the party's leader, packed thousands into a steamy meeting hall nearby for a pugnacious speech mocking "the system" and vowing victory in this spring's French presidential election.
Though still tough and pugnacious, she's managed to gain some perspective, allowing her to evolve into a more ambivalent antihero, a character type normally reserved for men — and rarely used for teenage girls.
The pugnacious ride-hail company shipped its cars to Arizona after coming up against the California DMV in San Francisco for not getting regulatory approval to operate semi-autonomous cars on public roads.
In a series of acid exchanges, a newly pugnacious Mr. Rubio, long mocked for a robotic and restrained style, interrupted Mr. Trump, quizzed him, impersonated him, shouted over him and left him looking unsettled.
Honda's pugnacious Urban EV Concept made its second auto show appearance ever here at Geneva this week, and it's just as adorable and retro as it seemed when it debuted in Frankfurt last year.
Tillerson traveled to Beijing earlier this month and met with Xi; in short prepared remarks during their talks, the top diplomat demonstrated little of Trump's pugnacious approach toward China, instead focusing on shared interests.
" Gillibrand's comment drew a swift and pointed response from the Clinton orbit in the form of Hillary Clinton's pugnacious former spokesman, Philippe Reines, who tweeted: "Ken Starr spent $255 million on a consensual blowjob.
That coach, Vazquez says, was Jim Jordan, now an Ohio congressman and an influential voice in Republican politics, perhaps best known for his pugnacious defense of President Donald Trump during the recent impeachment proceedings.
The police offered no immediate motive for the attack, but Mr. Mosiychuk was a pugnacious figure engaged in the politics of the war in eastern Ukraine who had publicly baited and insulted Russian politicians.
SHANGHAI — President Trump said on Sunday that the United States could consider stopping all trade with countries doing business in North Korea, in a move that could spell economic catastrophe for the pugnacious country.
There are his tweets, many of which are weird enough to generate the right amount of viral confusion or are pugnacious enough toward Donald Trump to provoke the ire of the presidential Twitter feed.
President Trump was easily acquitted on Wednesday on both articles of impeachment, less than 24 hours after giving a proud, pugnacious State of the Union address that signaled the start of his 2020 campaign.
Lara and Axe are well suited to each other, both owing their pugnacious aggression to their humble roots, but Lara is capable of a two-fisted ruthlessness that not even her husband can match.
PARIS (Reuters) - France will be "pugnacious" over the latest U.S. tariff threats on French products and will not go back on its digital tax plan, junior economy minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday.
This pugnacious crustacean (not technically a shrimp) cocks back its hammer-limbs and smashes prey with such ferocity, a shockwave blows the claws clean off crabs and crumples clamshells like they were papier-mâché.
Charles Harder, Trump's lead attorney on the case, said Trump's legal fees were so high due to both the unique nature of the case and Avenatti's pugnacious, publicity-seeking tactics, the Associated Press reported.
A pugnacious retired army general, Dagan took over the Mossad in 2002, when a Palestinian revolt was raging, international Islamist militancy was on the rise and world powers learned of Iran's secret uranium enrichment projects.
Not long after Uber's pugnacious founders first tested their app among San Franciscans, a pair of Harvard Business School classmates from Malaysia seized upon a similar idea: They wanted to build Uber, but for Asia.
Avenatti gained national attention as the pugnacious and media-friendly legal representative of Stormy Daniels, the adult film star and director who alleges she had a sexual encounter with Trump years before he became president.
Mahathir was known for his strongarm, sometimes pugnacious style of rule intolerant of dissent from 1981 to 13, but also for transforming his Southeast Asian country from a sleepy backwater into a modern industrialized nation.
Still, appointing such well-regarded executives is a clever move by Kalanick, as it will be hard for the other directors to argue against adding them, despite the pugnacious manner in which Kalanick is operating.
And Uncle Wong, a stout, bald man with a pugnacious demeanour and a t-shirt commemorating the Umbrella Revolution, the student-led pro-democracy movement that occupied Hong Kong's streets for 79 days in 2014.
One is about a pugnacious but well-intentioned politician who does something unwise, then finds that a blood-hungry media and shallow public can't hear his message over the sound of their own self-righteousness.
Uber has already halted services in Norway and Finland as it waits for the regulatory framework to change in those countries, a sign of the less pugnacious approach the company is taking toward local authorities.
In Beijing, he will meet his match in President Xi Jinping, another bold and pugnacious nationalist who emerged last month from a Communist Party Congress with more power than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
Yet Mr. Trump's pugnacious approach to foreign relations and his first executive orders — the most misguided of which was the sweeping travel ban targeting people from seven predominantly Muslim nations — have already undermined America's standing.
He's a pugnacious, perma-green light who's happy to launch a picturesque jumper whenever a defender starts tap dancing at the sight of his jab step (or ducks under a pick 30 feet from the basket).
At the age of 23, the Los Angeles area resident booked a gig on Entourage, HBO's hit series about a rising movie star, his group of longtime friends, and pugnacious power agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven).
Her basic point: A new and improved Travis — who has absolutely been an unpleasant and pugnacious little innovation-engine-that-could for Uber over the years — is medicine the company needs in order to be cured.
It is even more of a surprise to have Travis Kalanick (pictured), the chief executive of Uber, a popular ride-hailing company, go that far: he is one of the most pugnacious entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
Analysts agree upcoming union negotiations will be crucial, amid questions over whether O'Leary's pugnacious management style is still appropriate for a company that was once an upstart challenger but now dominates European short-haul air travel.
It is interesting to wonder how he might have done with the many Republican voters who want to see their leaders ridiculed if Mr Trump, who is both pugnacious and outrageous, had not entered the race.
During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders, pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine, all avarice and swagger.
Like the honky-tonk in "The Blues Brothers" that had "both kinds" of music, "country and western," it offered a rightist sampler running from Sean Hannity's party-loyal Republicanism to Bill O'Reilly's pugnacious East Coast populism.
More than half a century ago, I was taught geology at Oxford by a diminutive, pugnacious and leather-skinned Yorkshireman named Lawrence Rickard Wager, known to most (though perhaps not to us respectful undergraduates) as Bill.
In the summer of 1950, when North Korea started the Korean War with Soviet backing, Kim Il-sung was just 38 years old — a willful, pugnacious, wet-behind-the-ears dictator, not unlike his grandson today.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index closed up on Monday, the first day of trading after Mr. Trump's pugnacious stance rattled the summit meeting of the Group of 7 nations that was held over the weekend.
After more of Mr. Baldwin's cutting impersonations and more of Mr. Trump's Twitter rebuttals, the conflict reached a new level six days before Mr. Trump's inauguration with a sketch lampooning an awkward and pugnacious news conference.
Nichols was a fierce, vocal advocate for the women's interests in their fight for equal pay, but his pugnacious negotiating style had done little to inspire hope that the sides were moving closer to an agreement.
PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - France will be "pugnacious" over the latest U.S. tariff threats on French products and will not go back on its digital tax plan, junior economy minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday.
French junior economy minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told Sud Radio that France would be "pugnacious" in its dealings with the U.S. on the matter, and that France would not back down on its digital tax plans.
Kudlow, a senior CNBC contributor, might not be quite as pugnacious and eager to battle the nationalists as Cohn, but he is a passionate free-trader clearly unafraid of voicing his disagreements with the president's policies.
JON PARELES The first new song in two decades from the early-1990s shoegaze band Ride — dissolved in 1996, reunited to tour in 2015 — is pugnacious rather than contemplative, aimed at the current state of politics.
As a result, it has become an attractive operational base for Brazilian gangs, including the Sao Paulo-based PCC, Rio de Janeiro's Red Command and a Porto Alegre syndicate with the pugnacious moniker Bullet In The Face.
The pugnacious 74-year-old veteran lawyer and leader of Venezuela's oldest active political party, Democratic Action, has said he wants to run but will also respect primaries to select a unity candidate for the opposition coalition.
Guedes argues that the pugnacious Bolsonaro is just the man to deliver Brazil a jolt of free-market medicine and move past the current center-left policy consensus that has seen Brazil lurch from crisis to crisis.
The pugnacious Rublev, coached by Fernando Vicente, looks the best bet for a strong run in Melbourne where last year he was taught a lesson by Britain's then world number one Andy Murray, gathering only five games.
Clinton's critics may needle her for "shouting," but they probably wouldn't even know how to handle a genuinely angry, shouting outburst from Clinton of the kind that the more pugnacious Trump unleashed several times during the debate.
Those who have dealt with the secretive but pugnacious tone set by founder and CEO Jeff Bezos know that aim-to-please press releases from Amazon are rarer than a San Francisco liberal at the Trump inauguration.
Her attitude reflects that of many other Thai fighters, a stark departure from the pugnacious, trash-talking fight culture of their Western counterparts, who often come to combat sports at a later age and for different reasons.
Sources at the company said that the pugnacious leader thinks using traditional measures of diversity — such as accounting for the number of women or people of color, or lack thereof — is not the right metric of success.
Carlos Bolsonaro, a Rio city councillor who has guided the president's pugnacious social media presence, is facing a civil and criminal investigation for alleged improprieties in his council office, the state prosecutors' office said in a statement.
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, ending a progressive and pugnacious bid that emphasized immigration and social issues but rarely made progress in the polls.
But they thought it was a pugnacious move on Stephens's part to choose climate change as his first target, a subject as flammable to many younger readers as the Middle East has long been to older ones.
Taubes, a pugnacious writer who clearly relishes the role of muckraker, digs up a long history of attempts to discredit charges against sugar and to point the finger at fat as the primary dietary cause of disease.
The offensive remark, largely characteristic of the 41-year-old's pugnacious and near-constant social media presence, is another in a series by the President and his son to engage in racism to smear the Massachusetts Democrat.
So while he's not exactly Howard Beale, the famously pugnacious editor of BuzzFeed pressed hard last week on global news partnerships head Campbell Brown to explain how the social media giant defines journalism and who practices it.
CAIRO — Mortada Mansour, a pugnacious Egyptian politician, likes to boast that he beats his rivals with his shoe — so much, in fact, that he has lost count of the number of disputes he has settled in that manner.
Ryan won overwhelmingly Bannon's role signals that Trump will campaign through Election Day with the pugnacious style that won him the Republican nomination but has left him with a serious deficit against Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Travis Kalanick, Uber's pugnacious founder and CEO, took to Facebook a few hours ago to post a link to a five-month-old blog post about the improving quality of life of uberX drivers in New York City.
Though many felt the driver video was a moment that humbled the pugnacious CEO more than any other — leading to his first public admission that he needed to grow up — the incident with the Uber driver indicated otherwise.
Arch, the half-feral twin brother of "The Scattering: A Story in Three Parts," is a tediously cocky and pugnacious teenager, one who licks blood off his fingers because "everybody had to know how much he didn't" care.
So he proposed something of a political stunt: Why not rent a car together — two politicians from opposite parties, from politically pugnacious Texas, of all places — and broadcast their trip to Washington as a live bipartisan town hall?
Characterized by the film historian Carlos Clarens as a "pugnacious leftist," Brown would only direct two other movies, "Hell's Highway" (1932) and "Blood Money" (1933), both in the hard-boiled crime territory he staked out with "Quick Millions."
Unfortunately, that rollout was anything but smooth, due largely to the bungling of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's staff, which posted on her website a set of pugnacious and poorly written talking points (later disavowed) that scared even moderate Democrats.
According to numerous insiders, the pugnacious entrepreneur has continued to try to involve himself in daily operating decisions, so much so that top execs have been mulling how to get help from the board to rein him in.
In 1979, young Carl (Nico Bustamante) is 10 years old, living with his pugnacious mother, Dotty (Joli Tribuzio), his gassy, unemployed father, Peter (Johnny Tammaro), and his older sister, Jeannie (Kendra Jain), in a studio apartment on Thompson Street.
And, without a clear flag-bearer, the alliance of Trump's pugnacious populists, Cruz's fiscal and religious conservatives and Kasich's moderate Rust Belters may unravel just enough to allow the Democrats to control the White House for another four years.
United Nations (CNN)President Donald Trump delivered Tuesday a doomsday warning to North Korea and mocked its young leader, a pugnacious escalation in rhetoric in a wide-ranging debut address to the United Nations, the world's foremost diplomatic body.
The pharma defendants took a more pugnacious stance, asserting that just days after the 6th Circuit called for disclosure of the ARCOS data, the Supreme Court, in its Argus Leader decision, rejected the analysis the 6th Circuit relied upon.
This new shaving standard was a sharp departure from the previous century, when mustaches were ensigns of resolute and pugnacious manliness — so much so, that most European armies required their officers and recruits to muster with standard black mustaches.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull out of NAFTA if the three countries can't find an agreement that works for the US. In other words, Lighthizer's pugnacious style could potentially help lay the foundation for NAFTA falling apart entirely.
Mr. Dias exhibited his pugnacious paintings in such Brazilian exhibitions as "Opinião 65," a landmark show at Rio's Museu de Arte Moderna, and in international shows like the 1965 Biennale de Paris, where he won a prize for painting.
Though she owed her Senate seat to him, she had had little use for Governor Wallace, a pugnacious politician who had risen to power in Alabama as a fierce segregationist and who by 1978 was not seeking re-election.
If you like bruising New York club comedy with contempt for conventional wisdom, definitely try Tim Dillon, a raspy-voiced stand-up who does pugnacious bits on the class structure of Instagram and the ethics of punching Richard Spencer.
Kalanick's pugnacious and controversial leadership style has often been credited with catapulting the scrappy startup into a tech and transportation giant in just a few short years, and shareholders may be reluctant to fundamentally alter Uber's formula for success.
Rose's antics ("a little pugnacious," he calls himself … and also "a little clever SOB") also put him on the wrong side of other cast members, who called him out as an elitist, among other things, during the season 6 reunion.
Reinhardt, his loyal wife (Beata Palya) and his wonderfully pugnacious mother (Bimbam Merstein) leave Paris to lodge in a misty lakeside town, waiting for the day when someone from the Resistance will row them over the lake and across the border.
One of the Trump administration's first major tests of its confrontational approach to trade will bring Vice President Mike Pence head-to-head with his Japanese counterpart, Taro Aso, the pugnacious deputy prime minister with a habit of speaking his mind.
Talk about the genesis of the book, when you started the book it was like, "Look at this bare-knuckled startup that's changing the world and its pugnacious in-your-face CEO who's just such a character" kind of thing.
The New York City Council still has Uber in its crosshairs The plan sparked a vicious fight between the mayor, who has received large donations from the city's traditional yellow taxi industry, and the deep-pocketed, politically pugnacious ride-hail app.
In part, it's a roundup of the singles that have propelled Skepta to stardom in the last two years: the pugnacious "Shutdown" and "That's Not Me," songs that are almost explicitly about how Skepta both celebrates success and abhors its trappings.
There is reason for the concern, since the pugnacious entrepreneur has been pushing for Immelt and has also indicated to many over this entire two-month process (though not this week!) that he eventually wanted his old job back too.
The talky 134-minute movie, which features a kindly Melissa Leo as the documentarian Laura Poitras, and a pugnacious Zachary Quinto as the journalist Glenn Greenwald, ends with a trick: Mr. Snowden, who lives in exile in Moscow, plays himself.
Contemporary Southern hip-hop, particularly from Atlanta, feels cut from his mold of "quasi-comedic, abstract, nonsensical wordplay," as Mr. Korine put it, from the electric eccentric Young Thug to the pugnacious rapscallions Migos to the schoolboy croon-rapper Lil Yachty.
The day before, Trump denounced news reports about turmoil in his administration during a sprawling and at times pugnacious press conference that touched on topics ranging from increased reports of anti-Semitism to the departure of national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Moreno, 63, who lost the use of his legs two decades ago after being shot during a robbery, has a more conciliatory style than the pugnacious President Rafael Correa and has promised benefits for the disabled, single mothers and the elderly.
Boos at Yankee Stadium The interview on Monday also touched on how Giuliani, once hailed in many political corners following his leadership during the September 11 attacks, has become a polarizing figure due to his pugnacious and sprawling defense of Trump.
The settlement comes as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the top job in August, is seeking to put several scandals behind the company following eight years of CEO Travis Kalanick's pugnacious leadership, which led to rule-breaking around the world.
In the interim, the famously pugnacious Kalanick testified in court, maintaining a calm demeanor as he answered questions about Uber's soured relationship with Alphabet and his admiration for Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving-car engineer whose actions led to the lawsuit.
He was sitting on the Belasco Theater's stage two hours before showtime earlier this month, in a glass box that serves as the broadcast control room for Howard Beale, the pugnacious, mad-as-hell news anchor played by Bryan Cranston.
May, during Wednesday's parliamentary debate, learned from John Bercow, the pugnacious speaker of the house, that he might not allow her to bring her deal for Brexit, as the departure from the bloc is known, back to Parliament for another try.
Even Mr. Bannon, who is not known for his overt religiosity, got into the spirit, albeit in his typically pugnacious style: He cited Ecclesiastes and assured that this moment was a "time for war," at the least the political kind.
JERUSALEM — In a pugnacious speech on Wednesday evening before thousands of supporters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, embroiled in graft investigations, railed against "the left" and "the media that serves it," contending that they had ganged up to overthrow him.
That the pugnacious debunkers of the earlier "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" whose skepticism has been prone, on occasion, to curdle into what my daughter's kindergarten teacher calls "yucking someone else's yum," would turn into such enthusiastic, generous, downright sweet yummers of yuck.
We'll know the White House is in full code red mode if President Trump fires Sessions and replaces him with Giuliani, who matches the president's pugnacious personality and built a career as an ambitious prosecutor before turning to elected office.
Mr. Trump has known Mr. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, for years and likes his pugnacious approach and the fact that he never pushes back, said one former aide, who like others asked not to be identified discussing internal matters.
One person whose name did not pop up: President Trump, who relied on Mr. Cohn as a lawyer, mentor and more for 13 years starting in the early 1970s, embracing his pugnacious adviser's hit-back-harder style along the way.
But Mr. Priebus has had a relatively free hand to pick the operational staff that handles the day-to-day operations of every White House, while selling Mr. Trump on Sean Spicer, the pugnacious R.N.C. spokesman, for White house press secretary.
In his first TV interview since being fired in April, O'Reilly, whose pugnacious "The O'Reilly Factor" was the most-watched cable news show, said he was brought down by sponsor boycotts and wider business decisions at Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.
Some of that's due to the emergence of youngsters at Lowry's position (Fred VanVleet and Delon Wright are as pugnacious as they are smooth), but the primary reason is DeRozan's development from caveat All-Star to well-rounded first option.
It's this image of Fairstein — as a pugnacious figure cramming the confessions of five teenage boys into the mold she's already determined they'll fill — that has rocked the viewers of When They See Us. And it has rocked Fairstein too.
While The Global Times is controlled by the Communist Party, it is not an authoritative voice, meaning its pugnacious opinion pieces don't necessarily reflect the views of the Chinese government in the way a commentary in The People's Daily would.
Last year he put out what were easily his two most pugnacious projects to date: the commercially released mixtape "If You're Reading This It's Too Late," and "What a Time to Be Alive," the full-length album collaboration with the Atlanta rapper Future.
They're all, in their own ways, just as whizzy as David: There's Sam, a chatty former competitive League of Legends player; he argues constantly with Peter, a pugnacious arch capitalist who pulls in five figures a year with a web design business.
If the series roughly traces the arc of the book, Billions showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien could follow the famously pugnacious founder's path from serial entrepreneur to his horrid final year of running Uber in 2017, which was marked by ceaseless scandal.
He typically leads a trio with his peers, but here he'll connect with a pair of respected elders who happen to be alumni of Branford Marsalis's smartly pugnacious bands of the early 1990s: the bassist Robert Hurst and the drummer Jeff (Tain) Watts.
"Every time I play out here at Rod Laver Arena, it's like a second home," the 34-year-old Adelaide native told the fans after a typically pugnacious display in which he cursed a line judge and mouthed off at the chair umpire.
The ephemeral nature of Diet Madison's accusations has led to a media narrative that's wholly focused on their pugnacious tone and anonymity: "Inside 'Diet Madison Avenue': The Anonymous Instagrammers Who Get Nasty In The Fight Against Alleged Predators" reads a headline from AdAge.
According to multiple sources within Uber, the famously pugnacious CEO is still trying to find a way to remain as its top executive and ride out the storm or minimize the time he needs to step away on a leave of absence.
These days, then, Chris Christie's "Telling It Like It Is" struck just the right note, in the practical sense, for Christie's pugnacious style; unfortunately, it wasn't enough to make his candidacy viable and he dropped out after losing in the New Hampshire primary.
Seselj, 61, is a prolific writer known for his pugnacious temper and was a close ally of late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in his U.N. tribunal cell in The Hague a decade ago before his war crimes trial could be completed.
The string of safety measures is an attempt by CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the top job in August last year, to refurbish Uber's image and put several scandals behind the company following eight years of former CEO Travis Kalanick's pugnacious leadership.
Lower-tier candidates looking to energize their campaigns have also been more pugnacious: Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, for instance, has amped up her criticisms of the Democratic National Committee, the news media and even Hillary Clinton, who is not in the race.
The strategy has changed in recent months with the remade Trump legal team now led by the pugnacious former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, who like the president is a headline maker who enjoys duking it out in the press.
Shortly after Flake announced his intention to retire, reporters for both NBC News and ABC News attributed the triumphant response "another day, another scalp" to a "source close to Steve Bannon," the Breitbart News chief and the president's pugnacious former chief strategist.
Seemingly oblivious to assault or damage, pushing forward with six limbs until in range to deliver a short, sharp cut from either two of his elbows, Muangthai is one of the most pugnacious and relentless Thai boxers active in a ring today.
In Alabama, Mr. Moore has spent decades amassing a pugnacious and unapologetically controversial record — his views on same-sex marriage and Islam, for instance, are regularly condemned as bigoted and intolerant — that is central to his appeal to many of the state's voters.
Trump's pugnacious language may seem to jar with ordinary Christian rhetoric, but it's actually very much in keeping with the imagery of "muscular Christianity," the quintessentially Anglo-American conflation of machismo and religiosity that has defined American evangelicalism since the country's foundation.
When Tristan goes to visit his grandparents' farm in Alabama, the journal is stolen by a thief: a pugnacious, 10-inch-tall, doll-like creature that flings globs of sap, speaks mostly in capital letters and takes offense at being called a doll.
Mr. Bosworth, whose well-known nickname is Boz, personifies the most jolly version of this, presenting himself through pugnacious and often amusing tweets as the blunt one at the company, ready to drop the real truth on the media and other critics.
Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio Americans who tuned into the recent Intelligence Committee impeachment hearings are already familiar with Mr. Jordan, another fierce Trump defender whose pugnacious manner and sartorial choices — shirt and tie but never a jacket — have drawn derision among liberals.
The tension between Mr. Putin's apparent desire for a deal with Japan and his role as a pugnacious champion of Russia's national interests highlights how the nationalist passions he unleashed with the annexation of Crimea in 2014 now limit his room to maneuver.
And though the inactive, pugnacious challenger may have mysteriously lost the match, Hari showed the punters, and the promoters, that now, or next year in 2017, he's still got the tools to duke it out with the young bloods of the new school.
George Wallace, the pugnacious, segregationist governor of Alabama, ran as a third-party candidate, hoping to tip the election into the House of Representatives, where he could leverage his weight behind a rollback of the landmark civil rights laws passed in '64 and '65.
In doing so, she has become part of an "informal peer network" that includes two pugnacious writer-personalities: Christina Hoff Sommers, who rose to prominence defending Gamergate and coining "victim feminism," and Meghan Murphy, who opposed adding gender identity to Canada's human rights act.
But as the tumultuous Republican race came to New York ahead of its presidential primaries on Tuesday, Mr. Trump's pugnacious style and often divisive messages brought back memories of the politician who, in his day, similarly personified New York City's sometimes assertive, sometimes obstreperous id.
Randolph is 36 years old and incapable of defending pick-and-rolls or protecting the rim—Cleveland relentlessly attacked him with LeBron-Kevin Love ball screens for most of the game—but he's a pugnacious rebounder who's quietly more willing than ever to launch threes.
During that time, he placed his entire faith in Mr. Brafman — a pugnacious former prosecutor at home in the city's criminal courts — to speak for him on the courthouse steps and to fight the sex-crime charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney's office.
We know of him only from the work of others, and even Plato, who seemed to have held him in high regard, paints him as a pugnacious and ironic figure — someone who insistently dispelled comforting notions and sought to overcome the tendency to mythologize.
Mr. LaPierre's pugnacious appearance appeared to signal a tactical shift for the N.R.A., which had officially remained mostly quiet in the week after the Florida shooting, even as a movement of young people, including survivors of the massacre, made emotional pleas for gun control.
On a quest to meet the dozens of siblings she never knew she had, Julia hosts a party and discovers she has more than 100 brothers, but only two sisters — Roxy (Lucy Durack), an anxious child star, and Edie (Antonia Prebble), a pugnacious lawyer.
Frederic Solis Nathan, the New York City legal officer whose prosecution of the striking teachers' union in the late 21943s helped transform its pugnacious president, Albert Shanker, into a national figure by sending him to jail for a month, died on Tuesday in Manhattan.
A sharp, pugnacious Kansas congressman and former Army tank officer with degrees from West Point and Harvard, Mr. Pompeo was often an unyielding critic of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — accusing her of orchestrating a wide-ranging cover-up of the Benghazi attacks.
Ever since Britons voted to quit the European Union in 2016, questions have been asked about Arron Banks, a pugnacious entrepreneur with wide-ranging international contacts, who bankrolled a pro-withdrawal campaign and is thought to be the biggest political donor in British political history.
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According to sources familiar with Benchmark's thinking, it believes strongly Khosrowshahi is in danger of falling under Kalanick's control and wants to stay in the lawsuit to protect his ability to do his job — a CEO in name only under the heavy thumb of the pugnacious entrepreneur.
Reaction on Twitter to Avenatti's alleged comments suggest Democrats might not want a pugnacious standard-bearer who disregards the party's commitment to diversity: Avenatti is clearly trying to appeal to Never Trumpers because he thinks they won't be comfortable with electing another person of color as president.
WARSAW — Polish leaders have waited for years for a NATO summit meeting that would recognize what, to them, is a self-evident reality: that the proper way to respond to an increasingly pugnacious Russia is to plant more alliance troops and weaponry along the eastern front.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the pugnacious head of the left-wing National Regeneration Movement, whose candidate was the runner-up in the preliminary count, said Monday that he would demand an examination of ballots and suggested that the P.R.I. had engaged in fraud to secure victory.
His handling of the renovation has been a display of the brash style that many in New Jersey know well, whether recalling his pugnacious defense during the George Washington Bridge scandal or his public evisceration of officials in struggling Atlantic City as he threatened a state takeover.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former campaign manager on Tuesday acknowledged that his former boss enlisted him to try to limit the Russia election interference inquiry but defended Trump and tangled with Democrats during pugnacious testimony to a U.S. congressional panel mulling whether to impeach the president.
Under the pugnacious leadership of Matteo Salvini, the League (he dropped the word 'Northern' for the campaign to widen his appeal beyond the party's original geographical base) was on course to take about 18% of the vote—four percentage points more than Silvio Berlusconi's more moderate Forza Italia party.
These include the mild-mannered Tcherny (André Benjamin), who misses his family back on Earth; young women named Boyse (Mia Goth), Mink (Claire Tran), and Nansen (Agata Buzek), each of them clearly troubled; Ettore (Ewan Mitchell), a pugnacious youth, best avoided; and the onboard medic, Dr. Dibs ( Juliette Binoche ).
Irascible, pugnacious, a Marine in the Korean War and a lawyer for 20 years before entering politics, Mr. Molinari was elected to three terms in the State Assembly in the 1970s and to five terms in Congress in the 1980s, and was borough president from 20083 to 2001.
As a spokeswoman for Mr. Christie, Ms. Comella was known as a pugnacious and ardent defender of her boss, even during the so-called Bridgegate scandal that helped scuttle his national political ambitions and resulted in the convictions of two former colleagues, Bridget Anne Kelly and Bill Baroni.
And so, at the end of its set, after it played "Bad and Boujee," which remains in the top 25 of the Billboard chart, it played "Handsome and Wealthy," an older hit that's just as pugnacious, and which maybe, in this climate, could have topped the Billboard chart, too.
His strongest supporters cheer his pugnacious style, and he argues that it has gotten results, like when House Republicans backed off plans to undercut the authority of the Office of Congressional Ethics, or major employers reversed plans to move jobs overseas after he wrote on Twitter about his disapproval.
This tiny but pugnacious-looking concept is packed with clever features, like rear seat belts that pull from the center to aid entry and exit, screens in the upper door panels that display images from side-mounted cameras, and a digital assistant that can interpret the emotional state of the driver.
By the time Prince Mohammed was named Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince in 2015, and then next in line to the throne held by King Salman in June this year, he had already earned a reputation as a pugnacious young man with few scruples about how he got his way.
So Monday night's tribute concert was made in his image, gathering several New York-area rappers and a few out-of-towners, with a range of styles: the rigorous classicists Joey Badass and Action Bronson, the eccentrics Flatbush Zombies and Lil Uzi Vert, pugnacious toughs like Dash and Retch, and more.
Travis Kalanick, the company's pugnacious co-founder was forced out as CEO in June to be replaced by Dara Khosrowshahi, whose attempts to ease tensions with regulators has been stymied by further scandals including Uber's year-long cover-up of the hacking of information on more than 57 million Uber users.
As two museums devoted to the designer Yves Saint Laurent open this month, in Paris and Marrakesh, there has been plenty of chatter in fashion and cafe society (what's left of it) about the estate of Pierre Bergé, the pugnacious business brain behind the original Yves Saint Laurent fashion empire.
WASHINGTON — President Trump defended his pugnacious approach to trade policy on Friday and the Treasury secretary warned there could be a trade war with China, as Mr. Trump doubled down on a White House plan to punish Beijing by threatening to levy tariffs on an additional $100 billion in imports.
When we last checked in with the always pugnacious leader of the car-hailing company, he was getting shaken down by the the mayor of Pittsburgh, seeing accidents and regulators plague his troubled self-driving car efforts and getting tsk-tsked for taking some Uber employees to an escort bar in South Korea.
Two of the biggest players in Michigan politics, Betsy and Dick DeVos — she the former head of the state Republican Party, he the heir to the Amway fortune and a 2006 candidate for governor — established the Great Lakes Education Project, which became the state's most pugnacious protector of the charter school prerogative.
But he makes little effort to draw a causal link between Reagan's pugnacious arms buildup — a severe challenge to the Soviets' economic capacity — and the subsequent Soviet collapse (though he does concede, in a summation passage, that Americans were "likely" to credit Reagan with "the eventual fall of communism in Eastern Europe").
When we last checked in with the always pugnacious leader of the car-hailing company, he was getting shaken down by the mayor of Pittsburgh, seeing accidents and regulators plague his troubled self-driving car efforts and getting tsk-tsked for taking some Uber employees to an escort bar in South Korea.
"Ride" is stoked by Ms. Ward's pugnacious voice and the twangy riff attack and lead guitar of the Texas bluesman Gary Clark Jr., and it pushes ahead that most durable blues metaphor, the automobile: "I live my life out on the edge/yeah I don't stop just 'cause it's red," Ms. Ward sings.
And while it features some impressive guest appearances — a pugnacious DaBaby on "Hot Shower," the nimble Smino on "Eternal" — it also includes some likely first-time hip-hop collaborations — Death Cab for Cutie on "Do You Remember," CocoRosie on "Roo," Randy Newman on "5 Year Plan" — that maybe didn't need to happen.
Vic Gold, a pugnacious political spokesman who helped pave the way for modern conservatism by making Barry Goldwater less opaque to the press in the 1960s and collaborating with Spiro T. Agnew to lambaste the news media for liberal bias in the ′70s, died on Monday in Alexandria, Va. He was 88.
Known as a pugnacious Republican partisan by his colleagues in Congress, Mr. Pompeo is going to have pull off the political balancing act of his career to keep the confidence of the Trump White House while winning over the C.I.A., an agency that is notoriously hostile to outsiders in the best of times.
But don't let it sidetrack you from Pape's more pugnacious work with the camera, from her Super 8 footage shot in a favela on the sea to her documentary "A Mão do Povo" ("The Hand of the People"), from 1975, which contrasts indigenous Brazilian art and handicraft with consumerist junk in Brazil's big cities.
Until now, Bolton's professional legacy has been shaped heavily by a few things: his time spent as George W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations; his vehement disdain for multilateralism; his pugnacious support for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq; and his time at Trump's side, during which he angled for military strikes on Iran.
RJH: It is important for Duterte to make sure that he tones down his often pugnacious rhetoric, stop making controversial statements that allow his critics to portray him as dictator-in-the-making, and constantly reassure the markets and international partners that he is a stable, reliable leader who can take the Philippines through necessary structural reforms.
In the latest flexing of his muscles, Italy's interior minister and leader of the Northern League, the pugnacious Matteo Salvini, kept more than a hundred asylum-seekers cooped up on one of Italy's coast-guard vessels, the Ubaldo Diciotti, for almost a week as he demanded EU agreement on a policy for the redistribution of migrants.
On the same day, in a pugnacious (and alliterative) speech in Miami to veterans of the failed invasion in 2003 of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, Mr Bolton unveiled several actions against the "triangle of terror", whose leaders—Mr Maduro, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Miguel Díaz-Canel in Cuba—he dubs the "three stooges of socialism".
Duane R. Clarridge, a pugnacious American spy who helped found the C.I.A.'s Counterterrorism Center, was indicted and later pardoned for his role in the Iran-contra scandal, and resumed his intelligence career in his late 70s as the head of a private espionage operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, died on Saturday in Leesburg, Va. He was 83.
But he would also have to contend with the legacy of Travis Kalanick, Uber's pugnacious co-founder, who was ousted as CEO in June after shareholders representing about 40 percent of the company's voting power signed a letter asking him to step down amid growing concern over his behavior and the behavior of senior managers under him.
Paul J. Massey Jr., a millionaire former real estate sales executive, said through a spokeswoman that he had filed an extension; Bo Dietl, a pugnacious former police detective who has tangled with the Internal Revenue Service, "is NOT releasing his taxes today!" a spokesman said in an email, saying he would if he became the Republican nominee.
Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesConservative Dan Bongino launches alternative to the Drudge Report Poll: 46 percent of voters say Trump's Ukraine dealings constitute impeachable offense GOP member urges Graham to subpoena Schiff, Biden phone records MORE (Calif.) is the senior Republican, to the much larger and unwieldy Judiciary panel that features some of the most outspoken and pugnacious Trump allies.
Both are explicit fighters, while Mr. Buttigieg, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and some others warn that Democrats risk scaring off voters by relying too heavily on pugnacious oratory, and by emphasizing the need to transform America rather than focusing simply on ending the Trump presidency and restoring the country to some semblance of normalcy.
Trump Entertainment shows up every day now in the form of an outrageous "alternative fact," a pugnacious press conference, a tweet denouncing the news media as "the enemy of the American people" — or as a pep rally in Florida, unconnected to any particular legislative agenda and organized entirely for the purpose of giving the president an ego sugar high.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer last week of the post of defense minister to Avigdor Lieberman, a pugnacious ultranationalist politician, is the latest act in the war between Mr. Netanyahu and the military and intelligence leaders, a conflict that has no end in sight but could further erode the rule of law and human rights, or lead to a dangerous, superfluous military campaign.
Last year, Lockhart took his pugnacious style to another embattled institution, the National Football League, where the lifelong Democratic operative has found himself in the conservative confines of a league staggered by the reaction to players' demonstrating during the playing of the national anthem at games, as well as cases involving domestic violence, concussions, player misconduct and an array of other issues.
So when President Trump signed the order two days later, and thousands of lawyers flocked to airports in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere, the public saw not so much a spontaneous reaction as the meticulous preparation of a loud, pugnacious 35-year-old lawyer who is now in the middle of one of Mr. Trump's biggest policy fights.
Mr. Finney went on to play an eclectic array of movie roles, from the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet's star-studded version of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" in 1975, to the pugnacious lawyer Edward L. Masry, who hires the crusading title character (Julia Roberts) in "Erin Brockovich" (2000), Steven Soderbergh's tale of a power-company pollution scandal.
In a really nutty nutshell, according to numerous sources: Benchmark's side, which had supported Whitman strongly, thinks someone like Immelt will allow the controversial Kalanick to remain too powerful a figure; and Kalanick's side felt that Whitman would be less tolerant about allowing him to fully participate in the company going forward and has therefore backed Immelt, who is seen as more open toward the pugnacious entrepreneur.
On the day the White House made its announcement, Elizabeth Warren, a pugnacious Democratic senator from Massachusetts, and Tom Carper, a Democratic senator from Delaware, also fired off a letter to the Office of Government Ethics in which they bemoaned the confusion over potential conflicts of interest for Ms Trump, a businesswoman with her own fashion and jewellery label, as close confidante of the president.
Huang's debut memoir, "Fresh Off the Boat," which detailed his pugnacious years of youth and young adulthood and his profound affection for hip-hop music, concealed, behind its tales of crude violence in the parvenu suburbs of Orlando and its narrator's relentless code-switching, a subtle tracing of the continuities between black culture as imagined by Huang and Chinese culture as incarnated by his parents.
Mr. Collins has actively jockeyed for the appointment, which would not only put a reliable defender of the president into a key Senate position before a trial, but could allow someone like Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio or Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas, pugnacious faces of Mr. Trump's impeachment defense so far, to replace Mr. Collins on the House Judiciary Committee as the impeachment process shifts there.
Trump's pugnacious style was well suited to the messy drama, and his decision to stick by Kavanaugh, mock the woman who accused the nominee of sexual assault and use the controversy to fire up supporters could help Republicans in key Senate races in conservative states - even if it turns off independents and women voters in suburban House of Representatives districts that were already trending away from Republicans.
Mr. Matthews, who has a reputation for pugnacious commentary, drew fire from Sanders aides — and at least one network colleague — after he compared his victory in the Nevada caucuses to the Nazi takeover of France in World War II. "The general calls up Churchill and says, 'It's over,'" Mr. Matthews said during a Saturday broadcast, as he tried to describe Democrats' surprise at Mr. Sanders's command of the party primary.
Bolton — who'd had extremely combative interactions with Pyongyang during his time in the Bush administration and who has advocated carrying out preemptive airstrikes against the country's nuclear facilities — pushed for the Trump administration to take a pugnacious approach toward Kim Jong Un. That soon put him at odds with Trump when the president began efforts to engage in direct face-to-face negotiations with the North Korean leader.
Barzani was central to the Kurdish war effort — and has now adopted the same pugnacious style he uses to hunt down terrorists as he hammers home the independence cause in Washington, DC. Accustomed to operating in the shadows, Barzani has never before agreed to be profiled in the media, but he sat down with BuzzFeed News for three long interviews over the course of three months, making his case for independence and opening a window into the secretive realm in which he operates.
Some of the most prominent members of the Democratic party understand this reality, which is why former Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, two pugnacious operators both known for relishing political brawls, recently advised their party against politicizing impeachment and the Russia investigation.
El-P here is especially stark: How do you look in the eyes of a friend and not cry when you know that they're dyingAnd how do you feel 'bout yourself when you know that sometimes you have wished they were goneNot because you didn't love them but just because you felt too weak to be strongAnd you couldn't bear to see someone who prided themselves on their strength to feel weak El-P is a pugnacious rapper, a rangy street fighter with words.
He was widely criticized at the time for fueling racial resentment, a criticism that would resurface throughout his career — as Alexander Burns documents in a long look at "Trump's instinct for racially charged rhetoric" in the New York Times: Long before Mr. Trump announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, roiling the 2016 election with his pugnacious style and speeches in which he has branded many undocumented immigrants as rapists and murderers, he had proved himself in New York as an expert political provocateur with an instinct for racially charged rhetoric.

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