The appearance of the Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood, on last week's UK-wide televised leaders' debate, where she deservedly won applause for a doughty duffing of Nigel Farage, should not be allowed to mislead either.
Mali, still led by Seydou Keita, will be doughty as ever; Cameroon, seemingly relieved to be rid of the turbulent presence of Samuel Eto'o, breezed through qualifying after an awful World Cup, while Guinea are the romantic hope, having qualified despite having to play their home games in Casablanca because of the Ebola crisis.
She'll play a glamorous reporter tasked with filing a story on the doughty men of the Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea Walmington-on-Sea Home Guardatinn of the classic BBC comedy.
DESPICABLE criminals, eye-popping sums of money and doughty defenders of the law are a marketable mix, as any comic-book author can attest.
The UN says America has promised to stop spying on its communications.Ms Feinstein, previously a doughty defender of America's spooks, declared: "I do not believe the United States should be collecting the phone calls or e-mails of friendly presidents and prime ministers".
Race to the Finnish South by south-east Divided and unruled A parable of two debtors ReprintsJan Urban, a doughty Czech ex-dissident turned clean-government campaigner, agrees.
These are the kind of threats, says Silvana Saguto, a senior judge, meted out to a particularly doughty sort of boss in Sicily.
As a Jewish teenager he was a doughty street-fighter in the London slums, where adherents of pre-war fascism were once again marching, chanting "Get rid of the Yids".
It has a doughty defender in Stroud, who seeks out its seeds, propagates them in shade houses, plants them out in enclosures and the wild, and protects them from budleias, Koster's curse, rabbits and other foes.
Already, some are urging the bank to push up the base rate, which has been at an all-time low of 0.5% for almost two years, in order to redeem its reputation as a doughty inflation-fighter.Such a move would be misguided.
Ms de Lille is a coloured former trade unionist and a doughty anti-corruption campaigner.But tackling the ANC behemoth is a daunting challenge.
