He is a maverick in a country whose financial institutions have long operated around hak-yeon, ji-yeon and hyul-yun (school, hometown and kinship ties) and government diktat on who to lend to and how much.
Against this background, Mr Magueijo's attempt to portray himself as a brilliant maverick, a successor to Richard Feynman, or a rival theorist to the great Einstein, is simply laughable.
Lastly, I don't believe a single Dallas Maverick is a taxpayer in Ohio.
You might assume that an up-and-coming politician with a maverick streak, a descendant of social-outcast communities who used to dye his hair blond, would sympathise with such people.
He maverick, but a maverick other judges listen to.
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In the 2006 World Wines Competition alone, American vintages--a 2000 Maverick Malbec and a 2000 Carpe Diem Special Reserve--won the platinum awards for red and white wines, respectively.
But Mr Cohn-Bendit, though still a maverick, is not just a media-loving clown.
Always a maverick, he capped his career as a player by moving to California to start a sports consulting business.
Billionaire Randal Kirk is taking a stake in Ziopharm Oncology, a maverick company developing less toxic chemotherapy drugs, to push forward a novel DNA therapy that he thinks will be far bigger than cancer vaccines.
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Second, from August 18th, Brazil's television stations must carry 50 minutes a day of campaign advertising, which could allow less well-known candidates (such as Ciro Gomes, a maverick former finance minister) to grab enough votes to force a run-off.
Antanas Mockus, a maverick independent professor of philosophy, won election as mayor of Bogota, a job he did well in the mid-1990s.
McCain, who cultivates an image as a maverick, has been in the senate for four terms after two terms as a U.S. congressman.
Meanwhile, a maverick Socialist member of parliament, Arnaud Montebourg, is gathering his colleagues' signatures in a surely futile, but nonetheless headline-grabbing attempt to change the constitution so that a sitting president can be made to answer questions from the magistrates.
This leaves a vacuum to be filled by a few maverick Republicans with assorted motives, amplified by a media looking for August news or with an ideological agenda.
Bret Jacobson is the founder and president of Maverick Strategies, a communications firm.
The 5, 500 square-feet include master and guest suites fit for a king (or a Maverick).
Mr Orchard is a maverick, wanting Canada to opt out of the North American Free-Trade Agreement.
The 48-year-old travel-industry mogul is a maverick even among the more progressive, foreign-educated Japanese.
Gov. PALIN: I think McCain is known as a maverick, and that's why I love McCain.
As well as surfing between the two main parties, independents have increasingly exhibited a maverick streak.
Palin jazzed the base and set a pick for McCain to cast himself as a maverick reformer.
Mario Van Peebles enters the international-vigilante sweepstakes way too late as a maverick working with the D.
But it is also an illustration of what happens when a maverick scientific theory threatens conventional wisdom.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Well, I think him as many people do, you know, as kind of a maverick figure.
He was regarded as a maverick within the music industry and battled with drugs and alcohol throughout his life.
However much of a maverick he may have been, these dreams did not pop into his head ex nihilo.
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If you weren't a maverick or continuity member, then in the end, that's where your vote had to go.
In short, Miller is a maverick who follows his principles rather than what is fashionable with the Washington press corps.
But McCain, who cultivates an image as a maverick, must work to convince the GOP's conservative base to back him.
But in reality, he's been a maverick and appealing, you know, across the aisle and to the middle of the road.
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