His departure was first reported on the site started by longtime Shell gadfly Alfred Donovan.
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Cold comfort to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), a BP gadfly since the blowout began.
There was a time when lawsuits from gadfly state attorneys wouldn't even be worth worrying about.
Because he was a notorious gadfly, nobody paid it much attention, least of all Leger.
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Like the first Socrates, he saw himself as a gadfly of the tyrannical, lazy or self-satisfied.
This analysis by Theodor Nelson, industry gadfly and inventor of hypertext, was written in 1974 about IBM.
Ron Paul had a Kucinich issue (gadfly everyone ignores), and now has a newsletter, media and crazy problem.
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There matters might have rested had it not been for David Dodge, a constitutional gadfly based in Miami.
That brought instant criticism from Boris Fedorov, a former finance minister turned fiduciary gadfly, who sits on the board.
One of my heroes, Winston Churchill, saw the dangers of Hitler while his opponents characterized him as a warmongering gadfly.
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Another colleague mentioned the role of gadfly electric car companies in pushing major automakers out of the innovation doldrums that typically accompany monopolies.
"You can go with the gadfly--or at least make noises like you are--and attempt to shake up the board and get them to act, " he says.
These events, and an unwillingness to stand for any elected office that he might actually win, have, says Mr Page, reinforced Mr Jackson's image as a political gadfly.
He's not as unlikely a gadfly as he might seem.
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The decision represents an influential victory for Frank, who is often derided by class-action attorneys as a gadfly or only interested in raking off part of their fees for himself.
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Passed by voters in 1986, Prop. 65 gives any gadfly the right to sue a business with more than ten employees for exposing even one California resident to a potentially harmful chemical without proper warning.
The imbroglio also raises the question of who runs the country: the prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, or Mr Kamei, the gadfly leader of a small coalition party, whose six parliamentarians give the DPJ its majority in the upper house of the Diet.
Even in this determinedly optimistic and conformist country, there are some commentators, like gadfly politician JB Jeyaretnam, (one of only three opposition MPs) who point out that the government- approved brand of family unity might not last under the strains of late twentieth-century life.
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