Word: detractors
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...sampled several of the offerings. The egg and cheese quesadilla was cheesy and rambunctious, the nutella toast light and European, the carrots with ranch dipping sauce crunchy and belligerent. More impressively, it was all hot. One small detractor was the sausage burrito: a misnomer, it was in fact a quesadilla...
...political street brawler also see putting him on trial as unnecessary. "Jacques Chirac doubtless has a lot to answer for if justice authorities are pursuing him, but he's also given a lot for this country," former Socialist presidential candidate Segoléne Royal and long-time Chirac detractor said on Europe 1 radio Friday morning. "Today, he's a man who deserves to be left alone." Socialist Party spokesman Benoît Hamon also voiced concern about a trial. "There are laws to uphold, but it's true it doesn't to the image of France much good abroad...
During a November, 2007 visit to protesting fishermen in Britany, Sarkozy was reduced to furiously babbling as he sought to call a detractor out to insult him face to face. A year later, Sarkozy snarled "get out of here, you poor a - hole" to a man who refused to let the president shake his hand during a book fair appearance. Just hours before the now notorious Wednesday lunch, Sarkozy delivered a monumental verbal lashing to a trio of cabinet members for publicly jockeying for advancement ahead of a shake-up. Astonishingly, that demonstration of presidential butt-kicking was then recounted...
...Paul is at least inchoately aware that he has inner resources. Surely he is ordained, by the dictates of movie comedy, to win the girl, take revenge on his detractor, thwart a major crime and become a hero. When Veck, a new security guard (Keir O'Donnell), turns out to be the head of a gang that takes Amy and his daughter (Raini Rodriguez) hostage during a mall robbery, Paul proves his mettle, outwitting Veck and overcoming the gang lord's parkouring minions...
...traditional ritual of a major government shakeup that often follow electoral setbacks. His own decidedly more discreet behavior in the past few weeks suggests he may have learned important lessons about what kind of profile the French expect from Elysée residents. His public insulting of an elderly detractor on a rope-line last month notwithstanding, Sarkozy has made an effort to control his sharp tongue, keep his love life away from the press, and scale back his former media omnipresence to occasional, sober appearances and speeches more in line with what the French are used to in their...