"Some of his advisers thought I shouldn't be nominated because of remarks the administration found abrasive.
Scudamore, 58, divided opinion during two decades, with a tough negotiating style which some found abrasive, but his influence on the burgeoning wealth of the top tier is undisputed.
A Commitment to Dialogue As a law professor at the University of Chicago, Mr. Obama taught a young woman named Uzma Sattar, who was unpopular in class, students said, because of comments she made that others frequently found abrasive.
Partly, this arose from Mr Holbrooke's famously forceful personality - which Afghans found abrasive.
I believe that most people are hesitant to ask for help and even find it abrasive or self-centered.
"I just find Tonja abrasive and frightening, unnecessarily so," said Kathryn Taylor, who was on the board of the museum from 2008 until last year.
First thing I'd say is that I didn't find him abrasive in the kind of caricatured way I'd often read about — and braced myself for, really, with excited anticipation.
He was put in place by Colin Cowdrey, the MCC president, and other senior figures serving both bodies, to find less abrasive solutions, the club being on the verge of its double centenary, and £3.5m committed to new stands and press box.
But those who challenge the secretary must be prepared for withering cross-examination in a style that some, especially military commanders who are used to a more respectful hearing, find so abrasive that one senior officer has dubbed it "the wire brush treatment".
