His weak spots are supposedly money, organization, a flinty personality and past inflammatory comments.
This was partly because the participants' list was replete with flinty-eyed generals and senior intelligence types.
She appears flinty but fragile, a danger to others, surely, and perhaps to herself.
Down to 14 men twice against Ireland, they closed the game out with flinty-eyed professionalism.
British modernists and postmodernists alike have warmed themselves before Hawksmoor's flinty buildings, with their coarse masses and deceptive volumes.
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Kelly, a former high school quarterback, learned the Southwest way of doing things firsthand from the company's flinty founder.
Nationally, the Conservatives may be the party of flinty austerity and public-sector reform.
Right now, the avuncular Supachai, 52, is losing out to the diminutive, flinty Tarrin, who is a year older.
For a grand touring car, the Vanquish can get downright flinty in the suspension (the 20-inch, no-profile Pirellis don't help).
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You can guarantee that those flinty Cantabrians will prove that they can still party hard and show visitors a good time.
Though he left New England when he was only seven, Chouinard still retains the unimpressed, dismissive mien of a flinty Mainer.
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Willis and Pfeiffer, who should be flinty enough to strike sparks off each other, look glum and stony about the whole affair.
Quaid's tart Boston-Irish accent reflects Patty Ann's flinty personality, as she snaps out complaints and often bigoted, remarks to her henpecked husband.
Morris also interviews two flinty tabloid veterans who recall the entire episode as if it were the professional summit of their careers.
In the new novel, Thomas Cranmer is tediously devout, a flinty bore.
The text, which Lang assembled, intersplices various tellings of the story of Tristan and Isolde with the flinty stories and poems of Lydia Davis.
Mr Klaus's flinty vision of independent states, co-operating but certainly not melding, runs against Mr Havel's consensual, welfare-conscious welcome of a cosier pan-European embrace.
Or perhaps (Mr Miliband hopes) parenthood induces empathy and trust, as even flinty individualists find themselves grateful to nannies, doctors or the BBC, with its wholesome children's programmes.
He ended the last First Ministerial briefing of this political year with a "Merry Christmas all" but not before Carwyn Jones had sent a flinty message to London.
Some of the turbulence will test (but not break) the coalition, as specific policy disputes set flinty, small-state Tories against more tender-hearted, pro-European and environmentally minded Lib Dems.
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Indeed, Sancerre is physically closer to Chablis than many other regions in the Loire Valley, and the best of its wines have much in common with those flinty white Burgundies.
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But the bright lights conceal a gambling area where flinty-eyed dealers watch over hard-core gamblers, many lined up three deep at the blackjack tables, loudly outbidding one another for hands.
In recent years particularly, they had become increasingly disenchanted with the flinty policies of National's leader, Jenny Shipley, who sought to make New Zealand internationally competitive whatever the domestic cost.
The adaptive dampers' response ranges from flinty to flintier, and stiffer springs, lightweight aluminum knuckles, and revised rear-end geometry give the XKR-S a bright, concussive ride that would pound commuters to dust.
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Further north along the southwestern coast are the Skelligs, two islands that poke dramatically skywards out of the flinty waters of the Atlantic Ocean, nearly 12km off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry.
It was dreamy weather for intimacy, with the gusts, the torrents and occasional glimpses of flinty light, but I was moving too fast, on my own timeline, detouring to small towns or a ruin or a lighthouse, no discussion needed.
Rather than having the jaunty wit of a Wally Schirra, the affable magnetism of a John Glenn or the flinty swagger of a Chuck Yeager, Neil Armstrong came across as nothing more than the earnest, no-nonsense engineer he actually was.
Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay, a flinty former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Texas, with a tense smile and a talent for making offers his fellow Republican lawmakers can't refuse.
Why do I trust Gary Winnick and Jeffrey Skilling--nefarious former chief executives of notoriously bankrupt companies--more than I trust Senator John McCain of vaunted valor in prison camps or David Broder of Pulitzer fame or Senator Joseph Lieberman of famously flinty integrity?
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