His abrasive style could have been a factor in the decision to make a change.
Kutaragi may seem abrasive to some (see "The Chairman and the Rebel"), but he has power.
The coaches have picked me for my size and strength and my more abrasive game.
The foreign minister, Dimitrij Rupel, is oddly abrasive for someone with two decades' diplomatic experience.
The suction, along with the abrasive nature of salt water, wears their teeth down.
His unapologetic, abrasive style was met with praise and adulation by his appreciative constituents.
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But the abrasive Mr Campbell was a Labour insider before he was a spin doctor.
Anderson gave his all once again, but the ball quickly lost its shine on the abrasive surface.
Some Googlers who worked with Mayer found her style abrasive and her pace hard to sustain.
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Oppositionists say Mahathir's abrasive rhetoric of late is a show of weakness by someone on the defensive.
"They're a big abrasive pack, which we'll be fine with and our pack's big as well, " he said.
Mr Serra, an abrasive and ambitious politician, may be the man to shake up Brazil's haphazard health services.
Mr Livingstone's abrasive and idiosyncratic style has been less productive where he has had to work with others.
For Mr Bush, who usually shuns abrasive media questioning, the interview with Tim Russert of NBC was gruelling.
Astra's big shareholders are aware of Mr Mogren's abrasive nature, but have preferred to judge him by results.
Mr Skele's previous two administrations fell apart amid sharp criticism of what opponents perceived as his abrasive leadership style.
But Ms Bartz's abrasive management style has meant there has been considerable turnover in the senior ranks at Yahoo!
"The fact of the matter is, he can be very abrasive, " says Hunter.
Seen by much of the world as abrasive and inflammatory, Mr Ahmadinejad has built a strong constituency inside Iran.
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Policy is best determined locally where citizens can better monitor representatives, assess benefits against their price and redress abrasive bureaucracy.
Inadequate social skills, meaning anything from abrasive to overly introverted, are the demise of many technically and intellectually brilliant people.
The political class once pronounced him unelectable because of his conservative social views, abrasive manner and poor appeal to women.
It was dangerous, abrasive and loud, things people in their tidy little homes on neatly paved streets knew little about.
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He is evangelical, anti-abortion and pro-gun, but manages to be all those things without appearing as abrasive as Mrs Palin.
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In the recipes, Mr. Chang's informal writing voice becomes less abrasive and more encouraging, coaching the home cook through his techniques.
You couldn't call it a love letter to Beantown -- it's too edgy and abrasive for that -- but love-hate, maybe.
Mr Harper is abrasive and presides over a rancorous parliament, but his government is stable and the economy chugs happily along.
Mr Tusk's emollient, pro-EU stance contrasts sharply with the Kaczynskis' abrasive style.
Indeed, Mr Grant recently suggested similarities between Adams and John Bolton, America's embattled and abrasive nominee for ambassador to the United Nations.
Messrs Kennedy and Hughes have both, though some find Mr Hughes abrasive.
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