WTO's pugnacious new boss, has started the long fight to win over sceptics on globalisation.

ECONOMIST: Storm over globalisation

SRA's pugnacious chairman, has a long record in financing business projects such as Eurotunnel.

ECONOMIST: Railways

Specializing in antitrust and employment law, she defended clients from France's pugnacious regulators.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Parliament

Venezuela's once pugnacious private sector, which has backed several failed attempts to remove the president, now looks cowed.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela

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.

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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.

ECONOMIST: Indian politics

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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