Ms Krishnan considers herself "thick skinned, used to addressing difficult questions and dealing with abuse", but this, she says, was "sexual harassment".

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Broadbent is a weather freak who points out that both the 1945 and 1961 Bordeaux vintage were subjected to frosts and heavy rains, respectively, thereby reducing crops to small, thick skinned grapes producing deeply colored, concentrated and tannic vintages.

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The conventional wisdom holds that politicians must be packaged as feeling family types, rather than thick-skinned, sharp-elbowed machines dedicated to self-advancement.

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You come to see that the women attracted to finance are categorically smart, thick-skinned people, many of whom are used to being academically or professionally successful.

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So you can safely assume that if there is any blood on her ministerial colleagues and they are a thick-skinned lot on the whole Ms Mowlam meant it to be there.

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