Clearly Mr. Noer is not a strong man, or he would not have made such comments.

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"He is not a conformist, he is ambitious, a winner, an authentic man with strong feelings and he wanted to come to Barcelona, " he said.

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And in fact, all research indicated that the fact that he was a man of strong faith, albeit Jewish, was not a detriment to the ticket at all.

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But some of his relatives say Ram Singh was a strong man who, even after the 2009 accident, did not quit driving because a rod had been inserted into the damaged arm.

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So far, the prime minister's plans for streamlining the troubled finance ministry, not to mention deregulating Japan's hide-bound financial markets, have depended critically on having a strong man like Hiroshi Mitsuzuka as finance minister.

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