Sentence examples for firebrand to from inspiring English sources

Will it be the President Bush who invites Representative Barney Frank, the liberal firebrand, to brunch?

Hare is a champion of the late John Osborne, and he has followed a similar trajectory from firebrand to boulevardier.

As a connoisseur of equivocation, nuance, and indeterminacy — early casualties in any war — he was transformed from firebrand to relic almost overnight.

His trajectory from youthful Islamic firebrand to loyal Mahathir deputy to liberal leader of the reformist opposition has been too seamless.

Venezuelans, along with their neighbours, have become accustomed to his habit of switching from firebrand to conciliator and back again, with barely a pause for breath.

He describes the problems he faced telling the story of "an African firebrand to a Broadway audience, when you realise the demographic is elderly whites from New Jersey.

(The Moors later adopted a similar strategy, except they tied firebrands to the animals' tails to initiate the stampede).

Samson was a giant who slayed Philistines with a jawbone and who attached firebrands to the tails of foxes in order to set whole cities on fire.

Although bringing firebrands to book is possible under incitement and conspiracy laws, it means proving a direct link with criminal acts, which is tricky.

Could it be that Trump's reckless spending and his feckless Republican enablers will doom Democratic firebrands to live in the real world?

In Ayatollah Hakim's absence, there is no obvious figure to bridge the space between the elderly, aloof clerics and the young firebrands, to channel Shiite aspirations away from violence.