Goran Persson, the Social Democrats' rumbustious leader, had become increasingly domineering during his decade in office.

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Opinions at Venice split deeply on Mr Kusturica's noisy, rumbustious, circus-like farce about gypsy grifters.

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This could provide a rumbustious end to the week, given the building fury around all kinds of planning issues at the moment.

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Even this latest tactic is better suited to the rumpled and rumbustious, brawling seaman or jealous gods, than this stiff and awkward man.

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He brought with him a trainload of Rochdale supporters and, for the next two decades, he cut a rumbustious figure in British politics.

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The vote comes after a decade of rule by Carlos Menem, a rumbustious Peronist who turned into one of Latin America's firmest free-market reformers.

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