Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

More recently Alfie Kohn has been an outspoken critic of the No Child Left Behind Act and a passionate defender of the progressive tradition.

He was an outspoken and early critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

, his public denial of the health risks of passive smoking, and as an outspoken critic of the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming.

He was also an outspoken critic of Wilson's League of Nations.

While racial mysticism played a key role in his own worldview, Spengler had always been an outspoken critic of the pseudo-scientific racial theories professed by the Nazis and many others in his time, and was not inclined to change his views upon Hitler's rise to power.

The most outspoken critic of the church in France was François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, a representative figure of the enlightenment.

He was an outspoken critic of the idea of molecular assemblers, as advocated by K. Eric Drexler and introduced scientific objections to them.

Arnold was an outspoken critic of the trend towards high levels of abstraction in mathematics during the middle of the last century.

A vocal critic of conservative government policy, his outspoken rhetoric in parliament earned him the nickname " Schmidt-Schnauze ".

Bentham was an outspoken critic of the revolutionary discourse of natural rights and of the violence that arose after the Jacobins took power ( 1792 ).

" ( Benigni is an outspoken critic of media tycoon and then former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A longtime critic of the Huntingtonian paradigm, and an outspoken proponent of Arab issues, Edward Said ( 2004 ) also claimed that not only is the Clash of Civilisations thesis a " reductive and vulgar notion " ( p. 226 ), but it is also an illustration “ of the purest invidious racism, a sort of parody of Hitlerian science directed today against Arabs and Muslims ” ( p. 293 ).

He was an outspoken critic of the Madison administration and its wartime policies, denouncing its efforts at financing the war through paper money and ( in "

In June 1998, Tianjin professor He Zuoxiu, an outspoken critic of qigong, appeared on a talk show on Beijing Television and openly disparaged qigong groups, making particular mention of Falun Gong.

He became an outspoken critic of the Nixon-Kissinger over-reliance on détente, a situation preferred by the Soviet Union, favoring the Helsinki process instead, which focused on human rights, international law and peaceful engagement in Eastern Europe.

He defended the book The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy and was an outspoken critic of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

It has a tradition of providing quality arts coverage, and is noted for its visual art critic, Brian Sewell, more recently also a television personality, who is renowned for his outspoken dismissal of Britart and the Turner Prize.

Hugo Reid, an outspoken critic of the mission system and its effects on the native populations, at Rancho Santa Anita circa 1850.

Yale literature professor Harold Bloom has been an outspoken critic of the Cultural Studies model of literary studies.

In 2002, he became an outspoken critic of trusted computing proposals, in particular Microsoft ’ s Palladium operating system vision.

The misery endured by Haiti's poor made a deep impression on Aristide, and he became an outspoken critic of Duvalierism.

In Wales Lady Llanover, motivated by Calvinistic Methodists teachings, closed all the public houses on her estate and was an outspoken critic of the evils of drink.

" An ardent supporter of state rights, Henry was an outspoken critic of the United States Constitution.

Huntington was an outspoken critic of the Coercive Acts of the British Parliament.

When Rockefeller Center was put up for sale in 1995, Meyer and Lazard teamed with another young investor, William Ackman, the outspoken founder of Gotham Partners ( and now the highly-successful activist investor with Pershing Square Capital Partners ), to compete against industry giants Goldman Sachs and Tishman Speyer Properties for ownership.

Jack Ryder is a former Gotham City television talk show host fired due to his outspoken nature.

The government ( foreign policy conduct was the responsibility of Józef Beck ) undertook opportunistic hostile actions against Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, while it failed to control the increasingly fractured situation at home, where fringe groups and extreme nationalist circles were getting more outspoken ( one Camp of National Unity was connected to the new strongman, Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły ).

From 1787 to 1789 Webster was an outspoken supporter of the new Constitution.

The selection of Jefferson Davis as the new nation's chief executive not only dashed Toombs's highest hopes but also turned him into one of the most outspoken critics of the Confederate government and its policies.

As Leader of the Opposition Manley became an outspoken critic of the new conservative administration.

One of the most outspoken of the new breed of playwrights was Sha Yexin.

Known for his intense, demonstrative personality, the outspoken Barry was no stranger to controversy in the new league.

He was outspoken in his criticism of the new film, now little more than a comedic Will Smith showcase with virtually no relationship to the action-adventure series.

From Vanuabalavu, he remained outspoken in condemning the military takeover, comparing the new regime to those of Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, and Idi Amin, in an interview quoted in the Fiji Times and Fiji Village on 13 and 14 December 2006.

Some of the more outspoken New Formalists have declared that the return to rhyme and more fixed meters to be the new avant-garde.

An uncharacteristically outspoken Howard fumed in an interview that he would not have signed the new contract had he known Van der Sar was on his way to United ( Van der Sar replaced Howard as first choice goalkeeper ).

He is an outspoken figure within the Christian countercult movement where he has established a reputation for his criticisms of non-Christian religions, new religious movements or cults and heresies within conservative Christianity.

Borges was an outspoken critic of the renovation work done on the street in 1970 ; he was blind, and the new arrangement of trash cans, planters, flower pots, and magazine stands was a serious accessibility risk for him.

A large and outspoken group of current members of tribe have repeatedly expressed that the new design, layout, and overall feel of the new website go against many of their original reasons for joining the site.

He was an outspoken but articulate proponent for more minority enrollment at the law school, at a time when civil-rights consciousness was helping usher in a new era in America.

The problems would be symbolic of Durocher's difficulty in managing the new breed of wealthier, more outspoken players who had come up during his long career.

Weekly regulars on the panel included outspoken freelance writer David Menzies, liberal Muslim Tarek Fatah, journalist and broadcaster Marianne Meed Ward, new media personality Andrew Lawton, CUPE leader Sid Ryan, legal agent and socialist Harry Kopyto and high profile guests including prominent politicians.

In 1953, he earned new respect and public admiration when he turned against the other Democratic leaders in New York City and used the power of Tammany Hall to help lead the defeat of highly unpopular incumbent mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri in the Democratic Party primary by Robert F. Wagner, Jr., a highly outspoken pro-reform Democrat, and then helped assure Wagner's victory in the general election.

Political criticisms were often subtle in his writing, although he was outspoken against colonialism, racism and corruption of the Indonesian new Government.

Hesmondhalgh has become an outspoken activist for trans rights, including becoming the first Friend of campaign group Trans Media Watch and as Hayley, she has heralded a new level of acceptance among people across the country.

In 2009, after the discomfort that Losantos's outspoken and uncompromising editorial line was creating in the COPE ( deeply critical of the former Spanish premier Zapatero, but, somewhat surprisingly for Spain's partisan politics, equally critical of the conservative opposition, which he chastises as being bland and lacking a real alternative project ), he did not accept the new role he was offered by this radio station and announced he was moving, among others, to create his own radio station, esRadio, to be launched in September of that same year.

Employed at a local cultural center after 1977, he soon won recognition as an outspoken new literary talent.

During the 2008 offseason, it was reported that new Dolphins Vice President Bill Parcells did not like Feely's outspoken nature and that he would not be assured a roster spot despite his 2007 success.

At the September 22, 2008, hearing, ” Hinzman ’ s lawyer Alyssa Manning told Justice Richard Mosley that new evidence suggests outspoken critics of the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq face harsher treatment than other deserters.

The work of the League in publishing new poets made few reputations, and Wright was outspoken against free verse.