His mien is that of the contemptuous guerrilla fighter, mixed with that of a truculent teenager.

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The head of the truculent oil-workers' union, Carlos Romero Deschamps, is a PRI candidate for the Senate.

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Against the stereotype of the aging musician, Smith has, over the years, steered his band toward a heavier and more truculent sound.

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He is Mary Kate's brutish brother, Will (a nicely truculent Ted Koch).

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But there are suspicions that Mr Kabariti may have become too truculent for the king's liking in his comments about the Israeli government.

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"Yelling, berating underlings, slamming doors, throwing chairs and loud, truculent phone conversations with vendors on speakerphone that everyone can hear can sometimes be career-stallers, " Oliver explains.

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Serbia itself is likely to stay turbulent, its hardliners truculent.

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Liberal journalists rendered similarly harsh judgments, although one wonders why they bothered, given that the professional scholars seemed quite capable of publishing their own truculent first drafts of history.

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Who has gained from those truculent Iowans?

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So when Sonia Gandhi earlier this month presented her two candidates for president to Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal and a coalition member so truculent as to be a virtual member of the opposition, it may well have been in the hope of her vetoing Mr Mukherjee, a bitter rival in West Bengal.

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