The phrase "radical fringe" refers to a small extreme group within a larger organization or society that holds highly uncommon, extreme, or unconventional views compared to the majority.
Sentences with «radical fringe»
«But obviously, the fly wing and the vertebrate arm are so different that somewhere you have to start finding differences, and we have found the first: Engrailed controls Radical fringe in chicks, which it doesn't do in flies.» (sciencemag.org)
I «believe» in The West Wing episode you speak of they, and it's been a long time since I saw it, but they were implying the «radical fringe murderous» elements in terms of their comparisons. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In separate studies reported in today's issue of Nature, a team led by geneticist Juan Carlos Ispisúa Belmonte at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and another led by geneticist Cliff Tabin at Harvard Medical School found a very similar gene in chicks, named Radical fringe (R - fng), that is active on one side of a budding chick wing. (sciencemag.org)