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But the strange thing is that there’s another significant factor that will determine the outcome this weekend, and this one is the polar opposite of guts and gumption.

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Political parties, though, like companies, can’t survive simply on the gumption of the person at the top.

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Now it is down to cricket's governors to show the required guts and gumption.

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Shelley is overeager and desperate; he just lacks Jimmy’s/Saul’s imagination and gumption.

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These days, we need more gumption and electrolytes to check CNN than we do to climb Everest.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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