(n.) One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Briefly imprisoned for his firebrand politicking, he later joined a group of exiles in Libya, where Muamar Gadafy was eagerly spreading his crackpot revolutionary ideas among West African dissidents.
(2) Instead, Foot fell under the spell of the shipyard firebrands.
(3) He has no wish to go down in history as a Jew-baiting, race-hating firebrand, as many now think of him, who led a separatist movement to one great march.
(4) On Monday I posted a video interview with the Labour MP Jess Phillips , the latest in a series of relaxed conversations with political figures, recent examples being the colourful Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and the rightwing firebrand Peter Hitchens.
(5) Nonetheless, the incumbent has faced stiff competition, especially from firebrand opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who has been able to attract crowds of over 100,000 people.
(6) Cruz has long been known in Washington as a partisan firebrand, but he boasted about his bipartisan record on pro-Israel legislation.
(7) Yet it was Edmonds, the former public-sector boss, who was the private-sector firebrand.
(8) Since I arrived, few here doubted that the incumbent firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad would win.
(9) Masuku also rejected the firebrand leftist Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): "I read the EFF manifesto and I found some pretty good darned stuff there but they are so radical and so violent, they actually sound racist.
(10) It was the day of the funeral of Jimmy Reid – the firebrand union leader who had kept the docks open by occupying them in the 1970s – and Ed joined the dockworkers who lined the streets as the cortege passed.
(11) But one House Democrat at the Baltimore retreat questioned whether the firebrand from Massachusetts was the answer to the party’s problems.
(12) But an international landscape increasingly dominated by nationalist firebrands, conservative zealots and policy makers in thrall to austerity economics is always apt to waste opportunities.
(13) A firebrand youth leader seen as a threat to Jacob Zuma's hopes of re-election as South African president faces possible expulsion from the governing African National Congress (ANC).
(14) On camera, in This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi does not look like your obvious firebrand.
(15) Through the 1990s, he went to jail as part of a poll tax non-payment campaign and for civil disobedience at Faslane nuclear submarine base near Glasgow, leading from the front on picket lines, and relishing the title of "socialist firebrand".
(16) Its chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, is a firebrand political outsider and one of the most powerful women in India.
(17) The cover of Various Voices is a portrait of Pinter by Justin Mortimer, which is in the National Portrait Gallery (Pinter the political firebrand is also Pinter the establishment man, though he did turn down John Major's offer of a knighthood).
(18) The firebrand critic of the Communist party has been repeatedly detained by public security agents and has testified that he was tortured and threatened with death.
(19) Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU Rightwing detractors decry him as an anachronistic firebrand cast in the Scargill mould.
(20) (The former First Daughter was eight when she entered the White House, grew into a student firebrand and is now a stay-at-home mother in Atlanta: Rosalynn shows me a photo of Amy's elder son holding a baby and says, "I just love that photo.
Torch
Definition:
(n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
(n.) A flashlight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(2) Some of the TORCH tests are not accurate and should be avoided.
(3) This study compared soldering by a conventional torch procedure with an infrared soldering technique.
(4) In this review, the diagnostic problems encountered in the evaluation of a suspected perinatal infection have been discussed, as have the complexities of the evaluation process for the original four TORCH agents, as well as for three additional agents.
(5) What his death may mark, in fact, is the passing of the al-Qaida torch from one generation of militants to another.
(6) These skin lesions are not specific of leukemia and other diagnoses should be considered including histiocytosis, neuroblastoma, and skin erythropoiesis (in Torch syndrome, hemolytic disease of the newborn, hereditary spherocytosis, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome).
(7) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
(8) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(9) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
(10) The importance of seroprevalence of the TORCH group of agents and syphilis on perinatal morbidity and mortality in Jamaican women is discussed, and appropriate recommendations for prevention and control of congenital infections in Jamaica are suggested.
(11) The experiment must equally succeed as a torch showing the way forward not only for an enlarging European Community, but also to the ever increasing interest in global harmonization of drug regulation.
(12) She took part in the Olympic torch relay and though she never met Mao, "Chairman Hu" – as she calls the Chinese president – visited her recently.
(13) But later protesters pulled down security cameras, smashed bus stops and torched cars.
(14) A few even said that Sunday’s looting and torching of a QuikTrip gas station near the scene of Brown’s killing should be interpreted as an attack on all outsider-owned businesses, which would continue.
(15) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
(16) In this study about melting and torchs employed in solder in fixed prosthodontics, it's analysed the accurate melting, adequate quantity, as well as protection of adjacent tissues with an accurate anti-melting.
(17) In the evenings the men's bodies were covered in toxic mercury deposits, left by the process of mining and washing the gold; they burned them off with a blow torch.
(18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
(19) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
(20) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.