firebrand

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• Towering convective clouds rained down a hailstorm of ash, and firebrands even spanned the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
• The firebrand championing the indigenous Komi people was none other than Yury Spiridonov, an ethnically Russian oil miner and party worker, born in Omsk and educated in Sverdlovsk, who had once gotten into trouble for snapping at someone who tried to address him in Komi: “Speak in a way that can be understood.” The Return
• Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen
• In assembly elections last November, the erstwhile mainstream parties were beaten by the hard-liners -- Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, and the DUP, led by the loyalist, anti - "popery" firebrand Ian Paisley. MARCHING TOWARD CIVILITY
• There were activist firebrands getting into loud political conversations with people who just wanted to belt back drinks with parasols in them.
• If Franklin had lucked into a royal audience, might he have persuaded the King to ignore firebrands like Wilkes and do the right thing by America?
• Amongst our current crop of careerist politicians, we simply don't have enough firebrands with a passionate commitment to pursuing genuine social change.
• In any case, if the Karmapa were a planted agent, wouldn't the Chinese have encouraged him to camouflage himself as some firebrand activist? The Karmapa Conundrum
• Sources claim he encouraged his whole family to sign up for a ballot to help elect the left-wing firebrand. The Sun
• The firebrand French lawyer Saint-Just called it a new idea on the earth, and tried to get it into people's heads by guillotining as many of them as possible - until he lost his own.