Sentences with phrase «gadfly on»

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...

He has always rejected the many attempts to make theology address special interests, and as a result has been something of a gadfly on the current theological scene.

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.

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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.

To put the gadfly comment into perspective, consider this excerpt from Proxy Monitor's 2014 report on «frequent filers» of shareholder proposals:

• 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.»

We know what senior Conservatives think of them - from Michael Howard's «cranks and gadflies» and David Cameron's infamous «fruitcakes and closet racists» to Ken Clarke's disastrous «clowns» comment on the eve of the local elections.

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.

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.

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.

«Gadflies» latest attacks on New York's Common Core exams are the most ignorant yet.»

These witty watercolors by the artist, critic, and social gadfly Guy Pène du Bois depict the goings - on at the first incarnation of the Whitney, the Whitney Studio Club at 8 West 8th Street, where he had had a solo show a couple of years earlier.

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.

«So now, into the breach comes John Brockman, the literary agent and gadfly, whose online scientific salon, Edge.org, has become one of the most interesting stopping places on the Web.

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.