It may be wrong to say that democracies never go to war with each other, but the chances of peace will have improved quite a bit.Meanwhile, the particularly pugnacious sort of state that grew up in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries has matured into a much milder and more co-operative fellow.
But many member governments have become dangerously dependent on the windfall revenues from oil.Hugo Chávez, who has been particularly pugnacious, has been using Venezuela's state-run oil company to fund social spending at the expense of reinvestment in oil production.
The White-breasted Thrasher appears to apply strategies that seem particularly pugnacious to ensure reproductive success.
A particularly effeminate one.
(A particularly British malady).
However, Hayek herself has a certain pugnacious strength, conveying particularly well the pain of Kahlo's disability following a motor accident - bones having to be re-broken and re-set - interestingly recalling Jose Ferrer as Toulouse-Lautrec in John Huston's 1952 Moulin Rouge.
He has a reputation, dating to his 14 years as an N.F.L. quarterback, for being a pugnacious sort.
Murdoch transformed the Post from a liberal afternoon paper to a pugnacious conservative competitor of the morning News.
Franco is a pugnacious buffoon with a gnawing Napoleonic complex who just wants to prove that he was no fool.
The elaborate puppets range from a pugnacious Maya to a dragonfly resembling Mae West.
