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A hero had returned home but, in witnessing the delirious chest-thumping celebrations that followed, it felt as if the Frenchman had never been away.
Fans go wild for Thierry Henry, the genius who writes his own scripts | Dominic Fifield 2012
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But I expected to hear a lot of chest-thumping today about a New American Age or a New Dawn of American Spirit or any other manner of patriotic gore.
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The gathering typically features chest-thumping about growth strategies and new products.
Investors Looking for Firms to Come Clean Ellen Byron 2011
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But for Sabol, the strategy is simplicity: TV highlights are about chest-thumping, not plays.
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And so anti-Europeanism remains a mighty taboo in Germany, as does chest-thumping nationalism.
Behind Germany's Dithering Josef Joffe 2011
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Of course with this being your beard-sporting, sandal-wearing pinko-liberal Guardian, we must at least nod to the possibility that when he called upon his team-mates to man up, England's Brave John Terry may not have meant it in the primal, loincloth-wearing, chest-thumping sense of the expression.
Premier League stars need to woman down before they man up | Barry Glendenning 2011
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And against a person not present to defend himself — exactly like the typical arrogant chest-thumping right-wing coward.
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This chest-thumping comes as part of the run up to IBM's Lotusphere conference next week in Orlando.
IBM: More firms switching from Microsoft's Outlook to Lotus 2009
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I also remember it as being very emotionally operatic in that it revolved around a guy who grew up as a caveman who took a shine to this psychotic future dictator who didn't even like him: Cue lots of chest-thumping and wailing.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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And so anti-Europeanism remains a mighty taboo in Germany, as does chest-thumping nationalism.
Why Germany Is Leading From Behind Josef Joffe 2011
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