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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Cracking the rumbustious market LG Electronics advertises in a dozen Indian languages is the kind of offensive that Korea's shock-troop salesmen relish.

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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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And in practice, the debate has concentrated on East Asia, largely ignoring South Asia, except in negative comparisons sometimes drawn between India's rumbustious democracy and its relatively poor economic performance on the one hand, and the tough but successful systems to the east on the other.

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