Sentence examples for potent critics from inspiring English sources

De Sousa resigned from the CIA in 2009 and has in recent years become one of the agency's most potent critics.

Instead he became its most potent critic.

He emerged as the Russian government's most potent critic — the one the czar didn't dare imprison.

Appointed in 2010 to the Vatican commission that was investigating American nuns (and using the word "feminist" as a term of opprobrium), Tobin became a potent critic from within, and that led to his being fired from the commission.

Mr. Khodorkovsky was openly defying Vladimir V. Putin, then the president and now the prime minister, when he was arrested on tax charges in 2003; while in prison he fashioned himself into a potent critic of the government.

Last month, Diane Ravitch, an education scholar who has emerged as the most potent critic of the reform movement, wrote an Op-Ed for this newspaper arguing that raising high-poverty schools to consistently high levels of proficiency is much more difficult and less common than reformers make it out to be.

Denham has evolved into a potent critic of the project, as the Republican Party gained control of the House and then the Senate.

Clearly, as in the war in the Persian Gulf, air power has proved more potent than its critics expected.

Those who remained behind bars turned into potent symbols to Cuba's critics of the government's heavy-handed approach to dissent.

An even more potent voice joined the chorus of critics in 1966: that of Mayor John V. Lindsay, who had just been elected with a promise to stand up for the little guy against the city's back-room "power brokers".

In the rate manipulation cases, critics have clamored for more potent penalties, seeking convictions against parent companies.