To the modern chauvinist, having a central bank ranks in importance up there with having a national flag.

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Nowadays Lim is more likely to be tagged formidable and legendary than disloyal and chauvinist.

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Mr Chirac may be a male chauvinist at heart, but he can see the electoral advantages of a female mayor for Paris.

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Tabloids including The Sun and the Daily Mail have branded Mantel chauvinist, and of being fat, barren and jealous of the pregnant princess.

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BJP's Hindu-chauvinist face is particularly evident in Maharashtra, India's most industralised and most prosperous state, which it runs in coalition with a regional party, the Shiv Sena.

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Women need not fear a president who "uses" religion to please the masses and get their votes -- nor be disappointed when the veneer of secularism cracks to reveal an ambivalent chauvinist.

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Derek Manford, the chairman, is himself a reformed male chauvinist: he opposed the equal-rights motion nine years ago (to his wife's displeasure), but says that the women have proved their worth by organising raffles, bingo and barbecues.

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