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How To Use firebrand In A Sentence

• Iran appeared to have scored a big victory on Friday when the Iran-based firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr did an about-face and told lawmakers in his movement to endorse Mr. Maliki, giving the incumbent prime minister a big leg up in trying to form a new government. Baghdad Wrangling Rattles Iran Ties
• Short, bandy-legged and remarkably intense, Daniel plays Hatuey, the leader of the resistance against Columbus and the first Indian to be burned on a cross, as well as the firebrand leader of the Bolivian resistance against the water privateers. 'Unknown': Unmoored, Overcooked
• Again, that is the sort of suggestion that I think some of the firebrands are putting out in public.
• That's what thrust him and his classmates into the intersection of law and education with all of the zeal of firebrands.
• If found guilty the firebrand cleric could face as much as life imprisonment. The Sun
• This weekend, Daphne Merkin pondered on the opening page of The New York Times Sunday Magazine what men really want: ‘ Are men any more comfortable with female firebrands than they were before, say, Betty Friedan? The Little Princess | PopPolitics.com
• Though by no means revolutionary firebrands, all rebel against the older generation.
• Those who predicted that he would prove a left-wing firebrand have been surprised by his pragmatism. Times, Sunday Times
• His late grandfather, George, and his late father, Andreas, were both populist Socialist firebrands who became prime ministers.
• Come back tomorrow for how the firebrands of those revolutionary times saw the young Comrade Bob and how they strove to place him in the pantheon with Lenin and Lennon.