(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.
Troublemaker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
(2) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
(3) Some kids we thought were complete troublemakers were just angry and upset because they’d had no food since the day before.
(4) But, while I can't stress enough that I don't wish to be a troublemaker, there is a slight problem with the maths.
(5) He has earned a reputation as something of a troublemaker in government, often having to be hauled back into line by the president or party officials after speaking out on controversial issues.
(6) I have seen the organisational response to the full spectrum of sexual harassment and violence, including rape … and I would say now that if I was raped during a country visit I would not report it to my organisation.” Speaking out meant being labelled a feminist troublemaker, the source said.
(7) Crow's public image as a troublemaker and bully boy was misplaced.
(8) One demonstrator trapped behind police lines told Guardian Unlimited: "It's ridiculous, there are no obvious troublemakers here, it's just a mix of ordinary people and tourists, and we want to go home."
(9) Political activists are now often cast as troublemakers or foreign agents and hundreds of the young activists who sparked the revolt four years ago are either in prison on charges of breaking a new protest law or have left the country.
(10) When Blair Peach was struck on the head during the demonstration against the National Front, he was a victim not only of the police but of a barely suppressed public attitude – encouraged by a large portion of the media – that people who went on such protests were troublemakers who deserved all that they got – and if police officers cracked a few heads, then they had probably been grievously provoked by the troublemakers.
(11) With an iron will, she kept him away from troublemakers and kept him busy.
(12) They should not mix with the radicals and troublemakers and be incited or used by others to commit any illegal acts.” Several reporters at the scene described being shoved and manhandled by hostile police.
(13) One elderly neighbour described him as a troublemaker since his teens but said he became more prominent after 2011 through his links with Islamist militia commanders in the city.
(14) Has it become an unwitting accomplice in silencing and removing "troublemakers"?
(15) If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave.
(16) Photograph: Helen Maybanks However, had Homegrown been pulled as a result of threats from some fringe Islamist organisation, we’d now be celebrated as this generation’s Salman Rushdies – courageous defenders of free speech fighting off conservative forces from within our imagined communities, rather than as troublemakers.
(17) She said that when she complained to her first sergeant, she was told she was a troublemaker.
(18) As one panellist marvelled: "She's a real troublemaker.
(19) Nimeiri started transferring the troublemakers to small towns,” said El Sheikh, who worked as the railway’s accountant for 30 years.
(20) The surge in support for Corbyn has prompted warnings that “troublemakers” on the left and the right are abusing Labour’s new leadership rules by signing up as supporters so they can vote for Corbyn.