(1) After a period as a youthful firebrand in the Radical Party, he joined the Greens.(2) As Vermont governor, the liberal firebrand was a fiscal conservative with close ties to business(3) As is befitting of a 46-year-old, he looks more like a greying chartered accountant than a radical firebrand .(4) His followers see in him a populist hero, but more than anything else he resembles a postmodern version of William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic firebrand whose demagoguery derailed the People's Party in 1896.(5) a political firebrand(6) a political firebrand(7) But if everything goes to plan, it will be fourth time lucky for the former union firebrand who has pulled off a remarkable political and personal transformation.(8) It's a feature of modern politics for some firebrand to declare that they're going to go into elected office and u2018clean things upu2019.(9) Apart from anything else, it showed how superior they were to other nations, in being both generous and also resilient enough to be able to tolerate these firebrands among them.(10) Armoured figures started to head for the bridge, swords and firebrands ready.(11) Shadows flicked and he could hear the soft crackle of firebrands set into the walls around him, their soft light illuminating the brickwork and tapestries of the room.(12) That's what thrust him and his classmates into the intersection of law and education with all of the zeal of firebrands .(13) Again, that is the sort of suggestion that I think some of the firebrands are putting out in public.(14) Though by no means revolutionary firebrands , all rebel against the older generation.(15) When it comes to reducing vegetative fuel hazards, flame lengths and firebrands are the greatest concern.(16) His late grandfather, George, and his late father, Andreas, were both populist Socialist firebrands who became prime ministers.
