Sentences with phrase «gadfly for»

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 Martinez - Alequin, who has been a City Hall gadfly for more than 20 years, said he feared for his life that day as a large group of people surrounded him.

Given such reservations, what made this pugnacious science popularizer such a gadfly for Darwinism?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

One of them, the gadfly lawyer and MP J.B. Jeyaretnam, was repeatedly sued for libel by Lee.

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.

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

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.

And yet despite the abuse, they are still on the march - for clowns they are very serious, and they have proved unusually long lived for supposed gadflies.

The consumer activist and political gadfly says in an appearance in Albany on Sunday that New Yorkers have a «marvelous chance» to break new ground by voting for the Green Party.

He's 0 - for - 3 in previous runs, mostly recently for mayor in 2005, and is regarded by some as a gadfly.

It sounded much like the one that made him at best a gadfly and at worst a pariah in Christine Quinn's City Council: he intends to vote against the powerful Mr. Silver for Speaker, to pontificate on the floor against the lack of black power in New York and to unite the African - American members of the conference along racial lines.

But they also have a front - row seat for major projects that move through their neighborhoods, and it can be a dream gig for gadflies, civic leaders and the politically ambitious.

David Grandeau, a former state ethics watchdog who's now a private compliance attorney and frequent online gadfly, raised a red flag in a blog post Wednesday morning: «Who was Lacewell working for when she vetted these contributions?»

Mr. Díaz's father, an ordained minister born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, was elected to State Senate in 2002 after a short stint in the Council — but, for two decades before that, Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. was an incessant nuisance to the Bronx political machine, a «gadfly,» as the borough president called him.

It is an invaluable tool for reporters, good government advocates and gadflies - provided lawmakers, PACs and other committees actually abide by the rules and file, which is something NYPIRG has repeatedly demonstrated the state Board doesn't do all that much to insure occurs.

In addition, Mr. Levy, who described Mr. Amper as a «gadfly» who doesn't represent all environmentalists, said the bill was coauthored by environmental groups Citizen's Campaign for the Environment and The Nature Conservancy.

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...

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

Parents and other community members — thanks to some local gadflies who began to get the message out — also began paying attention and, for the first time in memory, voted down a school budget in large part because of academic failures.

Shanker's idea, which was first outlined by teacher union gadfly Myron Lieberman, became the private, nonprofit National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

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.

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.

It's not always easy for animal shelters to commit to reporting, since there's no shortage of critics and gadflies out there.

So it's not surprising that in her interview for the catalog for «Nicole Eisenman: Al - ugh - ories,» her exhibition at the New Museum, she mentions her admiration for two stylistic gadflies, Sigmar Polke and Julian Schnabel.

Ad Reinhardt was my personal gadfly, and he had much to goad, since I was an avid devotee of Abstract Expressionism and a member in good standing of «the boys,» Philip Pavia's term for de Kooning's coterie, condemned by Ad as «impure.»

It's an embarrassment to look at the fiascos of Climategate 2.0 & 3.0's shoddy shake - down attempts, and on the whole the obvious manufacture of a mountain out of less than a molehill, started because some Australian gadfly pestered an inarticulate British academic and elicited a rude put - down for his troubles.

«At the first opportunity for audience participation just several minutes into the proceeding, a longtime and well - known Apple shareholder — some would say gadfly — who introduced himself as Sheldon, stood at the microphone and urged against Gore's re-election to the boa...

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.

Chicago gadfly Sherman Skolnick, known widely for conspiracy theories and pro se lawsuits, had charged that two members of the Illinois Supreme Court took bribes from a Chicago lawyer and Democratic Party insider named Ted Isaacs.

Their scheme offended at least one gadfly who allegedly filed complaints against Total Attorneys lawyers in 47 jurisdictions for violating the rule against paying for referrals.

We've talked up Twitter quite a bit here at Legal Blog Watch (see posts here, here and here), but legal media gadfly Kevin O'Keefe has launched a new tool called Lextweet that builds and unites the legal community on Twitter, and will perhaps help shed light on the online social networking tool for the many lawyers perplexed by or ignorant of Twitter.

We reported last year on how the sheriff of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, relying on the state's old and constitutionally infirm criminal - libel law, had raided the house and seized the computers of a local man suspected of being responsible for a gadfly blog that had criticized the sheriff and other community figures.

New Zealander Kim Dotcom, that large gadfly who is still facing extradition to the US for alleged «piracy» of American entertainment (see the WSJ story) has launched his new — and improved — cloud file storage service, MEGA.

Or they're maybe like that gadfly that can just talk to anybody and they can just find people that might want to raise money for you for the deal or contribute to the deal.