Sentences with phrase «something of a maverick»

In the Senate, the Republican whose voting record was least likely to match up with Skelos was Sen. Greg Ball, a Putnam County lawmaker who is considered something of a maverick within the Legislature.

He has a reputation for being something of a maverick who is quite happy to defy the Tory whips in parliament.

In a statement Friday morning, Skelos acknowledged Ball's reputation for being something of a maverick in the chamber, adding he expects to retain the seat.

It also contradicts conclusions other researchers» have reached in the past, making him something of a maverick.

Over the course of his career he's starred alongside quite a few good men; you could say he's something of a Maverick, but the only thing that's certain is he's a Scientologist.

Kireger notes that Nielsen may be something of a maverick.

In a Hopps exhibition, considerations of art history and scholarship are often present, along with ideas about style and influence and social issues, but the primary emphasis is always on how the art looks on the wall, and this, surprisingly, makes Walter Hopps something of a maverick in his profession.

In the first part of his tenure, Justice Stevens was something of a maverick, taking his own often quite distinctive path to resolving numerous legal issues.

If anything, Justice Thomas is something of a maverick.

Schnarch is still something of a maverick in the field of sex therapy.

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For too long, he has been considered as something of a philosophical maverick or theological «sport» and has therefore been politely ignored.

Smith, the ninth overall pick in last month's NBA Draft, joins the Mavericks as a future face of the franchise, something made even more important due to Dirk Nowitzki's career drawing near an end.

It wasn't long afterwards that the PM moved Gove from the DfE (something he should have done a lot sooner if David Laws» account of the DfE being a maverick department «out of control» is accurate).

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However, this trailer suggests something much grander than just a new direction for the company, something supported by not only the cryptic nature of the trailer, but by the use of Yakuza director and known maverick Toshihiro Nagoshi as the narrator.

In the current show at Boone (where recent excursions into the art of Peter Saul, the late Ed Paschke and now Bernstein, have turned the gallery into something of a haven for the veteran mavericks of American painting), each canvas is lit by two pairs of alternating white and ultraviolet spotlights, so that you are looking at the colors the artist actually mixed, but heated to a discreetly hyper - pigmented buzz.

A maverick and a visionary in the»60s and»70s, Salvador Minuchin transformed the very idea of what a therapist was supposed to be, from the self - contained cipher sitting mostly silent behind the patient's head into something dazzlingly different — a brash interventionist willing to make people change regardless of what they were feeling or whether they even knew what they were feeling.