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"You can go with the gadfly--or at least make noises like you are--and attempt to shake up the board and get them to act, " he says.
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Mr Koizumi, 56, is the gadfly health and welfare minister.
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The imbroglio also raises the question of who runs the country: the prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, or Mr Kamei, the gadfly leader of a small coalition party, whose six parliamentarians give the DPJ its majority in the upper house of the Diet.
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Another colleague mentioned the role of gadfly electric car companies in pushing major automakers out of the innovation doldrums that typically accompany monopolies.
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Like the first Socrates, he saw himself as a gadfly of the tyrannical, lazy or self-satisfied.
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Passed by voters in 1986, Prop. 65 gives any gadfly the right to sue a business with more than ten employees for exposing even one California resident to a potentially harmful chemical without proper warning.
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Cold comfort to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), a BP gadfly since the blowout began.
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His departure was first reported on the site started by longtime Shell gadfly Alfred Donovan.
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That brought instant criticism from Boris Fedorov, a former finance minister turned fiduciary gadfly, who sits on the board.
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One of my heroes, Winston Churchill, saw the dangers of Hitler while his opponents characterized him as a warmongering gadfly.
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The decision represents an influential victory for Frank, who is often derided by class-action attorneys as a gadfly or only interested in raking off part of their fees for himself.
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Even in this determinedly optimistic and conformist country, there are some commentators, like gadfly politician JB Jeyaretnam, (one of only three opposition MPs) who point out that the government- approved brand of family unity might not last under the strains of late twentieth-century life.
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