Sentences with phrase «of gadflies»

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.

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.

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.

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

He's always been a bit of a gadfly.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Investors are not particularly skeptical of proposals by unions and public pensions, but appear to view proposals by individual «gadfly» shareholders as value - destroying.

• 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.»

I've often viewed this blog as a kind of «gadfly» - pricking some bubbles and occasionally stinging.

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Funk paints Jesus as a social radical, gadfly and deviant who serves up an alternate construal of reality by offering puzzling parables.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

He might be regarded as a gadfly and bon vivant, but he has a keen understanding of his party's working - class appeal.

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.

While that might sound like the opinion of an external gadfly, it's actually the assessment of outgoing CPI Chairman Michael Cherkasky.

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.

By Wednesday evening, political gadfly and former Bronxite Garth Marchant took to Facebook replying that his Queens Chapter of 100 Democrats, not the Bronx Chapter, had endorsed the City Council candidacy of George Alvarez.

Mr. Monsour, 51, has long been a gadfly within the agency, which runs or regulates thousands of group homes and institutions.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

They questioned the motives of researchers and cited gadfly «authorities» to give the impression of a disagreement among scientists.

His observations, which grew out of his opposition to the Vietnam War and, later, what he saw as the United States» resorting to violence and other forms of coercion and domination abroad, thrust him into the spotlight and have made him one of the top pundits and gadflies of the day.

The philosopher, dubbed «the gadfly of Athens», had made himself unpopular with his fellow citizens by questioning what he saw as their unthinking pursuit of power and pleasure.

Bell deftly parodies Vivian's vérité style of wobbly, gratuitous close - ups of hands and facial features but her characterization of Vivian as a nasty feminist gadfly seems a little reactionary.

Each was referring to a Monday night vote by our local board of education (of which I am a member — though my gadfly tendencies often lead me to butt heads with other board members, and to get shut out of things like budget - making processes).

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

(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.

However, said Brill, who is a noisy gadfly and prolific producer of multipage criticisms of Mass MoCA and suggestions of what it ought to do, «Over the years I've come to see that they have not been as good a neighbor to the surrounding community as they should be.»