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Each region sustains a solid and pugnacious local pride from historic division into the city-states, duchies, kingdoms, and republics of Florence, Naples, Venice, Lombardy, Piedmont, and Sicily.
Like Rockefeller 100 years ago, Gates came to the national attention with a pugnacious, imperial style that irritated government lawyers who needed no provocation to do what they were hired to do.
[The book is] pugnacious and angry to the point of occasional bitterness and sarcasm."
He and his law partner, an equally pugnacious lawyer named Peter Neufeld, handled a case where prosecutors carelessly used DNA evidence to railroad a suspect.
Pugnacious new CNN boss Rick Kaplan was hired from ABC to boost the network's sagging peacetime ratings.