Sentences with phrase «gadfly in»

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

The answer lies in the fact that Mr. Philpotts, regarded as a harmless gadfly in local political circles, had the foresight to stock the county committee of Mr. Camara's 43rd Assembly District with a handful of family members and allies.

Fortunately, a couple of gadflies in the ointment emerge in a skeptical science teacher (Hal Holbrook) and an outside agitator (John Krasinski) who urge everybody not to be blinded by dollar signs, but to do a little research into the potential fallout from fracking.

Not exact matches

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.

Former Maple Leafs general manager (and current Calgary Flames president of hockey operations) Brian Burke is so firmly against entrusting sports decisions to computers that he's become the Sloan Conference's gadfly, travelling there to denounce it in flamboyant speeches.

Since 2006 (the first year in the ProxyMonitor.org database), the three most frequent sponsors of shareholder proposals at Fortune 250 companies have been corporate gadflies: John Chevedden (including, in earlier years, his family trust and now - deceased father, Ray); William Steiner (and son, Kenneth); and Evelyn Davis.

This change will eliminate a lot of the gadflies and limit the use of proposals to investors with serious long - term skin in the game.

• The SEC should address «the practice of «proposal by proxy,» where the proponent of a resolution — typically one of the corporate gadflies — has no skin in the game, but rather receives permission to act «on behalf» of a shareholder that meets the threshold.»

The «gadfly» groups could advance favored agendas that denominational officials thought it impolitic to promote in their official capacities, and if the groups got too outrageous the officials could always cut their informal ties, declaring that the groups had «gone too far.»

A «gadfly» California pastor tried a novel way to free an Idaho pastor imprisoned in Iran this week.

He said that he was of course only a minor person in the great city of Athens, no more than a gadfly, stinging a large beast in order to make it take notice of the way it was stumbling along, heedless of its direction.

Given his litigiousness, it's no surprise that Antonious has earned the enmity of some executives in the golf industry who see him not as a creative genius but as a gadfly who likes to sprinkle the landscape with legal land mines.

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.

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.

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

A Suffolk Democratic civic gadfly has filed objections to derail Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy in New York because he was born in Canada.

Cahill added that he was happy that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman addressed allegations made by political gadfly and comedian Randy Credico to Fred Dicker that the incumbent Democrat used cocaine as a state senator in the mid-2000s.

Green Party gubernatorial contender Howie Hawkins and Randy Credico — the gadfly perennial candidate who recently placed third in the Democratic primary behind Gov. Andrew Cuomo — hit the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan today in an effort to make inroads in the usually loyally blue enclave.

But reporters in search of Cuomo's skeletons also come across political gadflies and adversaries of the governor who breezily pass out misinformation.

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.

Capitalizing on a boost to a historically anemic budget, Public Advocate Letitia James has emphasized the use of litigation in her capacity as the city's elected gadfly, often suing the city that funds her.

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.

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?»

The gadfly's efforts were sparked by recent trial testimony, in which the star prosecution witness told Newark federal jurors that Christie knew about the politically - vindictive lane closings and did nothing to stop them.

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.

They're planning to help Paladino, who has been strongly identified with the conservative - activist Tea Party movement, to launch a New York Tea Party, much as billionaire Rochester political gadfly Tom Golisano's gubernatorial campaign launched the Independence Party in 1994.

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.

A gadfly who won only 5 percent of the vote in a State Senate race last year, Mr. Philpotts stunned the Democratic establishment on March 1 when the county committee in the Crown Heights - based Assembly district selected him over several better - known candidates to run as a Democrat.

The estrous cycle or oestrus cycle (derived from Latin oestrus «frenzy», originally from Greek οἶστρος oîstros «gadfly») is the recurring physiological changes that are induced by reproductive hormones in most mammalian therian females.

Moore, as narrator, brings humor and sarcasm to his comments, and occasionally appears onscreen in a gadfly role.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Have the Bruces gone in no time from gadflies to insiders — or taken both ideas to new levels?

(By gallery maven and gadfly scold Jerry Saltz's reckoning, the proportion of works by women in MOMA»S display of art from 1879 to 1969 is even now only 5 percent.)

More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand.

This three - week performance biennial, invented by impresario - scholar - gadfly RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, is back, bigger than ever, and intends to «write the next chapter of performance art.»

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.»

In fact, Mr. Gore's global travel to maintain his swashbuckling status as a politician turned international gadfly really does produce quite a carbon footprint.

(Of course, I also identified several unattributed passages from Wegman et al in a text book by physicist turned climate change gadfly Donald Rapp, who has provided endless entertainment ever since.

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.