Theo Waigel, chairman of the Christian Democrats' stroppy Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union, was also applauded.

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"People think I'm stroppy, " Murray wrote in his own autobiography, denying the charge.

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It was the proverbial lecture to the stroppy teenager to stop relying on pocket money (from Westminster) and at least get a paper round.

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True, the delegates agreed to stick to the alliance with the Christian Democrats and their stroppy Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union, after the September general election voters permitting.

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As with all his adaptations, he subverts the text to concentrate on the heroine Gwendolen, who he turns into a vapid but stroppy travesty of a modern woman, instead of allowing the original plot to speak for itself.

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While Hilary worries about her stroppy daughter Tilly, played by Bel Powley, her marriage to her shop-owner husband Mark (Ewan Stewart) has gone stale, and her best friend Frances (Doon Mackichan) has taken up burlesque dancing to maintain her sexual allure.

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After accusing a tax-and-spend Democratic administration of being too soft on welfare cheats, stroppy students and violent blacks, Reagan won by almost 1m votes, or almost exactly the margin by which Brown had beaten Knowland to win the governorship eight years earlier.

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