Sentences with word «gadfly»

The only ones who care are a small handful of gadflies who need to get a life and a somewhat larger group of mostly left - leaning social and political activists looking for a free soapbox to advertise their cause.

Mr. Díaz would initially seem to be an odd choice for Mr. Tischler, but the state senator, a political gadfly known for his staunch socially conservative positions, allows Mr. Tischler to back a fellow Democrat without saying he'll back a liberal like Mr. Sampson.

And Killian pushes that question persistently and provocatively, which makes him a good gadfly for a highly necessary inquiry — even a better one, given more devotion to the relevant topic and less to emotional reactivity.

But more often than not, they have acted as gadflies on the backs of the world's merely imperfect governments no less than its truly sinister ones.

Hameroff is best known for serving as a kind of gadfly in the fields of neuroscience and philosophy.

The gruesome act and Alig's subsequent imprisonment bookends what is really more of a fascinating memoir by St. James, an Alig friend / foe and well - known gadfly on the city's predominately...

Basil is the consummate guy's guy: a commitment - phobe gadfly known for a double - edged magnetism that has the ability to thrill — and wound.

Democratic gadfly Bill Samuels commissioned a poll that shows a third - party leftist candidate could eat into what Cuomo is hoping will be a commanding victory this year.

iTouts like you who steal Igbo names from Facebook are like Gadflies, full of annoying insults.

Democratic gadfly Bill Samuels called Cuomo «Nixonian» for aiding Republicans at the expense of candidates in his own party, said he might primary LG candidate Kathy Hochul as a way to force Cuomo back to the left of the Democratic Party.

Democratic power brokers, past and present, couldn't keep a political gadfly from running as a Democrat in a Brooklyn special election.

Dan Lear is a technology - focused business lawyer, blogger and legal industry gadfly, who has advised companies from startups to the Fortune 100.

Bleckner never shied away from publicity; he even purchased the five - acre Sagaponack estate previously owned by the ultimate social gadfly Truman Capote.

Billionaire Mark Cuban, for example, has poo - poohed much of the doom and gloom and said that «TV is the new TV,» while media gadfly Michael Wolff has written an entire book about how television isn't being nearly as disrupted as other media industries.

And the language amends the law to allow any school district employee or parent to sue a local charter school in state court to enforce these flawed targets, opening charters up to more and more lawsuits from local gadflies and teachers unions.

One - time lefty gadfly Zephyr Teachout may just wind up becoming a professional politician: She's following up her rebellious 2014 run against Gov. Andrew Cuomo with a bid for a US...

USA Today columnist and media gadfly Michael Wolff wrote recently about the ongoing decline of print newspapers, and how the revenues from new digital efforts aren't even close to filling the gap left by falling print ad sales.

Really gadfly!

One - time lefty gadfly Zephyr Teachout may just wind up becoming a professional politician: She's following up her rebellious 2014 run against Gov. Andrew Cuomo with a bid for a US House seat.

When Lina Wertmuller, the elfin feminist gadfly of Italian cinema, made SWEPT AWAY back in 1974, it was a tantalizing and brutal take on the war between the sexes, between the classes and on the whole human comedy.

Even though Frost is the protagonist, scrambling to find a chink in Nixon's rhetorical armour, the showbiz gadfly seems just as morally suspect as his prey.

We've been known for ages as education gadflies, and we still find plenty to fault when it comes to policy and practice in the United States.

How does a lovable, often cranky, controversy - loving gadfly go from the margins of the art world to its epicenter?

Take Hudson River School rogue Thomas Moran and arm him with the palette of Abstract Expressionist gadfly Clyfford Still...

Take Hudson River School rogue Thomas Moran and arm him with the palette of Abstract Expressionist gadfly Clyfford Still; then you'll get a good sense of the great creations brought about by Landscape Artist April Gornik.

Someone just twittered me a great post by author and business gadfly Seth Godin.

Posted by Brian McCullough Someone just twittered me a great post by author and business gadfly Seth Godin.

Another questioner, Bay Ridge Republican gadfly Jim McCall, pressed the candidate on whether he'd get involved in elections for party leadership posts.

I'm speaking, of course, of the Toronto - based National Post, which provides a home to such climate «experts» as Lorne Gunter, Peter Foster and Terence Corcoran, as well as a platform for notable Canadian contrarians such as faux - environmentalist Lawrence Solomon (of «The Deniers» fame) and economist and climate gadfly Ross McKitrick.

Sidenote: Chew is also one of the few biopharma execs I've ever spoken to who voluntarily brought up the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a tough drug pricing critic organization which insists on proven outcomes (and has consequently become a major biopharma gadfly), because the group actually validated the cost - effectiveness of Omada's tech.

It involves a powerful company, a cocksure entrepreneur in CEO Mark Zuckerberg, gadfly critics who seemed less wacky as time went by, and even the occasional counter-villain, notably media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Wealthy populist gadfly Doug Ford has already launched his campaign — from his mother's basement — vowing war...

Critics of the nation's largest banks haven't had very many friends in Washington lately, but that dynamic changed markedly in January, when Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren — perhaps Big Finance's most articulate gadfly — was sworn in and given a seat on the Senate Banking Committee.

The «gadfly driving civilization from its ancient safeties... is this desire to state the principles in their abstraction» (AI 141); «metaphysical understanding guides imagination and justifies purpose.

I don't know whether Ellis is a prophet or a Socratic gadfly — perhaps the two roles aren't mutually exclusive — but I am deeply impressed by his courage and decency.

She does take a quick pass at the usual picture of his later career, briefly asserting that the image of Niebuhr as an «in - house establishmentarian gadfly» underestimates the ironic, tragic and pathetic aspects of his later life.

Pitchers who make the majors a year after being drafted are the Rhodes Scholars of the industry: They're about as likely to be the President of the United States as an unemployed gadfly, statistically.

Sometimes it's hard to attract attention even in your hometown, but Buffalo Grove gadfly, prominent atheist and self - proclaimed civil - rights activist Robert Sherman proved once again Monday he has a knack for these things.

Former Independence Party member and Staten Island gadfly Frank Morano claims he has made some headway in his long - shot campaign to draft retired Paychex CEO and ex-New York resident Tom Golisano to run for president as a (small i) independent.

ICYMI: Bill Samuels, Democratic donor and good government gadfly, questioned Gov. Andrew Cuomo's reform chops during a CapTon interview last night, saying former Gov. Eliot «Steamroller» Spitzer was more dedicating to overhauling Albany than the current governor is.

With a vaunted email «boom list» of 50,000 conservatives, he quickly carved out a perch for himself as an outspoken anti-establishment gadfly.

Brodsky's campaign manager Jon Lipshutz said the Westchester assemblyman, whom the Post dismissed as «an Albany fixture» and «reflexive gadfly» and hit for being too close to «poster child for Albany dysfunction» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, would have gone to speak to the paper «if we were invited.»

The New York Observer's Will Bredderman reports that comedian and political gadfly Randy Credico, who finished third in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary, campaigned yesterday at the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan with the Green Party's Howie Hawkins.

«The Haggerty brothers have been nothing more than nuisances and gadflies given to making frivolous claims that have only served to slow down the growth of the Queens Republican Party,» he said in a statement.

As a would - be candidate for governor — and one whose New York residency is sketchy — Democratic gadfly challenger Zephyr Teachout should immediately make public her tax returns.