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He has often been an outspoken critic on the town board.

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Hart was on the investigative Senate committee that looked into CIA abuses in the 1970s, and became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the spy establishment — just as Richard Nixon was secretly battling the CIA, the Pentagon, and corporate interests at the time that the Watergate scandal began to undo his presidency.

Yevgeny Kaspersky is an outspoken critic of cyberwarfare, and emphasizes that the health and credibility of his company depend on his ability to defend against all cyber threats without bias.

An outspoken critic of Europe's central banks recently, Falkengren has focused on building capital buffers in case of unexpected losses — and, for retail clients, limiting their exposure to risky loans.

Scott Hannah, another outspoken critic of advanced - fee debt settlement, believes some U.S. firms are counting on it.

Not too long after that, Cuban turned on the Republican candidate and spent the rest of the election cycle as one of his most outspoken critics.

For example, he himself has been an outspoken critic of people like Germaine Greer on the matter of transgenderism.

He cultivated friendships with the few conservatives on Berkeley's faculty, wrote outspoken editorials for an off - campus newspaper, and found his calling: «I now viewed politics as a knife fight, my critics as blood enemies.

Dr Vandana Shiva, an articulate and outspoken critic of the corporate - controlled food system, is calling a day of civil disobedience on 2 October to honor Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, at the start of the 2nd Global Seed Freedom Fortnight.

For an explanation as to why Cuomo would risk muddying the waters of his own campaign, you should look no further state former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, who has emerged as an outspoken champion of Rangel — and chief critic of Democrats like Rep. Mike Arcuri who have turned their backs on him.

This approach has a big weakness: critics will see in this outspoken attack on the Labour party a natural willingness of the Lib Dems to lean towards the credibility of their economic strategy over fairness.

She also appeared to hint that she believes Mr Bercow's time is up, in her response to a call for a Commons debate on the Speaker by his most outspoken backbench critic, Tory MP James Duddridge.

An early voice to raise the alarm about the emerging threat of Nazi Germany, she was an outspoken critic of appeasement, telling the House in 1933 that the NSDAP were «inflicting cruelties and crushing disabilities on large numbers of law - abiding peaceful German citizens, whose only offence is that they belong to a particular race or religion or profess certain political beliefs.»

Having been on the receiving end of some of Paladino's less - pleasant tirades, and given his history as an outspoken critic of a whole host of things and people that piss him off royaly, I don't think it's going too far out on a limb to say that this tour will be well worth the price of admission.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has been an outspoken critic of the the 328 - bed facility for the homeless and substance abuse patients, said in a letter to constituents that she and other City Council members were presenting a resolution to the City Council's Committee on General Welfare at a public hearing at 10:30 a.m Wednesday.

They include arch critics such as Jess Phillips, who has been outspoken in her criticism of his leadership and consequently received abuse from some Corbyn supporters on social media.

Melania Trump is defending her husband's campaign, particularly his outspoken rhetoric on immigration and what critics have perceived as a harsh tone directed toward women.

Since leaving the Cabinet, Morgan has been an outspoken critic of the Government on grammar schools and Brexit.

Mr. Lynch has been outspoken critic of Mr. de Blasio, particularly in the wake of the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died on Staten Island as a police officer tried to arrest him.

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who has been the most outspoken critic of the Medicaid redesign task force and abstained from voting on its 79 recommendations yesterday, just released a joint statement with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that walked back his previous statements (including what he told me on CapTon) considerably.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. had been an outspoken critic of de Blasio's proposals, describing them as «tremendously flawed,» but his office said they would withhold commenting on the Council's decision until they had examined the changes more closely.

Jeffries — who has been an outspoken critic of NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and aggressively pushed for a national ban on chokeholds following the death of Eric Garner — said he supports Kaepernick's right to protest the anthem.

Democrat Kathy Nolan of Shandaken, an outspoken critic of railroads and resorts and a staunch ally of County Executive Mike Hein on most things, could be considered the front - runner among this contentious ménage.

Her close relationship with the mayor was a break with the political tradition she grew up in ---- as head of both the Housing Justice Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, as a protégé of Duane, who was an outspoken critic of Giuliani while on the Council, and as a top deputy to former Speaker Gifford Miller, who often adopted a confrontational approach toward Bloomberg.

While the energy company — which is building the project on behalf of the Long Island Power Authority — promised residents they would see «minimal disruptions,» outspoken critics of the idea have surfaced at public meetings to denounce the project.

«I don't believe the evidence of a crater off Madagascar, and the impetus is on Abbott to prove it,» says Jay Melosh, an impact expert at the University of Arizona and an outspoken critic of the theory.

WASHINGTON — Outspoken vaccine critic Robert Kennedy Jr. has accepted a position within Donald Trump's administration as chair of a panel on vaccine safety and scientific integrity — the clearest sign yet of the president - elect's suspicions about vaccines.

Based on Roger's 2011 memoir and directed by Hoop Dreams» Steve James, the film traces the outspoken film critic's professional and personal journey from Pulitzer Prize - winning writer at the Chicago Sun - Times to his rise as a beloved TV movie reviewer alongside Gene Siskel and, ultimately, to his 11 - year battle with thyroid cancer, which ended in April when he died at age 70.

WHAT I LIKED While I am an outspoken critic against Catherine Hardwicke and not a fan of the «Twilight» series she first brought to life on the big screen, I applaud any chance to bring genre fiction to a wider audience.

Alfie Kohn on Rewards and Punishment Former teacher Alfie Kohn is an outspoken critic of the focus on grades and test scores.

New York public school principal Carol Burris, an outspoken standards critic and defender of leveled reading, recently published an anti-Common Core missive on the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog that was fairly typical of the form.

A spokesman for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a longtime Success supporter and an outspoken critic of Trump, said the congressman was not available to comment on Moskowitz.

They've found allies in outspoken critics like Diane Ravitch, who argues NCLB places too great an emphasis on test scores.

During an interview at a Chalkbeat breakfast event on Thursday, the CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools explained her evolution from what she described as an «FDR Democrat» who believed the traditional school system was flawed but could be improved to an outspoken critic trying to lead an educational revolution from the outside.

Phil Robertson has been an outspoken critic of political correctness during his time on A&E's hit show «Duck Dynasty».

The «black widow» in the title is Dr. Diana Jager, a successful surgeon and outspoken critic of sexism in medicine on her blog.

While supporters of the new digital format are intrigued by the visuals, archives of information that builds the back story, and the opportunity to revive older works of literature for a new audience, outspoken critics of the concept commented on the superfluous «bells and whistles» that interactive ebooks carry.

In his office at the University of Nevada, the psychologist Steven Hayes, an outspoken critic of counterproductive positive thinking, keeps a box of them on his desk; he uses them to illustrate his arguments.

Speakers include European Tour Operators Association Tom Jenkins, who has been an outspoken critic of the impact the Olympic Games has had on tourism for host cities arguing that tourists stay away in the build - up, during and aftermath of the event.

Speakers include European Tour Operators Association Tom Jenkins, who has been an outspoken critic of the impact the Olympic Games has had on tourism for host cities, arguing that tourists stay away in the build up, during, and aftermath of the event.

Recently Raph Koster, a well known academic and games thinker, who literally wrote the book on fun, posted an openletter response to a Tweet from Leigh Alexander, another well respected and outspoken critic and games journalist.

While abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning had long been outspoken in their view of a painting as an arena within which to come to terms with the act of creation, earlier critics sympathetic to their cause, like Clement Greenberg, focused on their works» «objectness.»

Saltz, a judge on the Bravo television program Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, is married to New York Times senior art critic Roberta Smith, and has a reputation for being — as behooves a critic — outspoken, irreverent and pranksterish.

Barber is an outspoken critic of the current food production system and a strong believer in the power of cooking to counteract rampant food waste; but he also insists on the need for people to think about their overall diets in terms of waste, primarily by reducing meat consumption and prioritizing vegetables and grains.

For a 2003 story on the politicization of climate science, for example, I interviewed Patrick J. Michaels, a University of Virginia climatologist and outspoken critic of the mainstream view that human - caused warming is dangerous.

North — not to be confused with Richard D. North, another right - wing British journalist and climate - change skeptic — worked as a research director at the European Parliament and then emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of EU bureaucracy and the effects of EU integration on British businesses.

Waxman, an outspoken Democrat and frequent critic of the Bush administration's stance on global warming, is the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Government Reform.

Since leaving Tyndall — and as we found out in a telephone interview — he has come out of the climate change closet as an outspoken critic of such sacred cows as the UN's IPCC, the «consensus», the over-emphasis on scientific evidence in political debates about climate change, and to defend the rights of so - called «deniers» to contribute to those debates...

He is a prominent advocate of adherence to due process in such proceedings and is an outspoken critic of the Bar Standards Board, the Bar's regulator, especially on issues of non-disclosure of evidence.

Dizaei, a former leader of the National Black Police Association, was an outspoken critic of the police on race and a key figure in a racism row that erupted at the top of Scotland Yard in 2008.