Word: outspoken
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...board expressly denied in a statement. Similarly, Summers’ defenders characterized his ouster as a breach of academic freedom of speech, while his detractors often cited his adversarial leadership style and his increasingly contentious relations with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Critics of Nichol have been outspoken in their charges against his management of the William and Mary endowment and policies he championed while president of the public Virginia college. “He has a record no other president would envy,” said Robert G. Marshall of the Virginia House of Delegates...
...about the issues of the Union, preserving the Union, slavery, how he was able to handle his political opponents. I mean, one of his opponents actually referred to him as monkey, and put them in the Cabinet. His most prominent members of his Cabinet were his most outspoken political opponents. It's remarkable. Just how he was able to find that within himself. And also, when the Civil War started, the pressures on him to try and hold the country together. If you think we have problems now [Laughs]. I would really welcome that opportunity...
...real test of the gulf between McCain and conservatives - and his ability to bridge it - comes Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference in Washington. CPAC is the Lollapalooza of the Republican right, and its founder, David Keene, has been an outspoken critic of McCain's perceived anti-conservative transgressions on issues ranging from campaign finance reform (McCain's for it) to gun control (for it, in certain instances) to global warming (against it). As a result, McCain has routinely skipped the event; last year, he was booed in absentia. "He won't get a poor reception...
...falls in the capital - which, as a bastion for the King's army, had been safe during all of the years of the civil war - the usually teeming streets grow deserted. "The police have no motivation at all right now," complains Kanak Dixit, editor of Himal magazine and an outspoken advocate of democracy. "There is an alarming surge in crime...
...Burns was often outspoken and radical, as works such as "A Man's A Man For A' That" (A Man's a Man For All That) show...