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The company's pilots are bolshie over their "give backs" and fear of losing pensions.— IAGblog
This takes the bolshie lefties out of play cYpSo are there more lefties or righties in FF?— Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
But she is perhaps at her best when she describes their well-meaning, bewildered English hosts, struggling to befriend this quarrelsome, bolshie busload of foreigners, who stubbornly refused to conform to the stereotype of refugees.— Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
British Airways could not afford this strike after the trouble they have had to overcome at Heathrow with terror attacks, rising USA security demands and generally bolshie unions.— IAGblog
Like most young adults it wants to put a cool distance between itself and the older generation - to be seen as the bolshie anti-establishment party that challenges the status quo and is rude about what has gone before.— British Blogs

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