Despite the loss of one recent political scrap in Humberside, Lord Prescott's pugnacious nature is sure to reappear on both the ancient platform of the UK's upper chamber of Parliament, and the slightly less ancient platform of Twitter.
WTO's pugnacious new boss, has started the long fight to win over sceptics on globalisation.
SRA's pugnacious chairman, has a long record in financing business projects such as Eurotunnel.
Specializing in antitrust and employment law, she defended clients from France's pugnacious regulators.
Iran's pugnacious game of nuclear brinkmanship is fueled by oil.
The new Quinnipiac poll figures showing Obama ahead in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania demonstrate that Republican-style attack politics work for anyone with the gumption to use them, including this year's pugnacious Democrats.
Charlie Whelan, the chancellor's pugnacious press-handler, has boasted to journalists of being one of the six most important people in Britain. (It is not clear who the other five are.) At the moment Mr Whelan's briefings, and those of Alastair Campbell, Mr Blair's press secretary, seem far more likely to affect public debate than anything that happens in Parliament.
Venezuela's once pugnacious private sector, which has backed several failed attempts to remove the president, now looks cowed.
True or not, the story is in character: Mr Emanuel is famous for being the president's most pugnacious panjandrum and congressional and media manipulator, and proud of it to boot.
Trout and salmon may inhabit the dreams (and literature) of the upper classes, but the pugnacious, voracious bigmouth bass is everyman's fish, found in every state save Alaska.
Nobody knows if the urbane Mr Jaitley, who leads the party in Parliament's upper house, or the pugnacious Sushma Swaraj, in the lower house, is really in charge.
If its leader, the engaging and pugnacious Grigory Yavlinsky, can work successfully with Mr Stepashin, it will be the first time in Mr Yavlinsky's career that he has shown himself capable of teamwork.
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