In 2011, the paper fired its outspoken columnist Larry Derfner for a controversial post in his personal blog in which he wrote that Palestinians have a right to kill Israelis to oppose the occupation.

There was some opposition to the appointment, in particular from columnist Des Houghton, who argued that she would bring a " fair bit of baggage " to the role ( in reference to the controversies surrounding her time as the Governor of Queensland ), and that she had failed to live up to her promise to be outspoken during her time at Government House.

Since then he has become a leading and outspoken conservationist, and a prolific broadcaster, columnist and photographer.

Murat Belge ( born 1943 in Ankara, Turkey ) is an outspoken left-liberal Turkish intellectual, academic, translator, literary critic, columnist, civil rights activist, and occasional tour guide.

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

Augustin Theiner, the librarian at the Vatican, then in disgrace with the pope for his outspoken Liberalism, kept his German friends well informed of the course of the discussions.

One of the most outspoken of the small-town broadcasters, Ed Craney of KGIR in Butte, Montana, went so far as to apply to move his station, then on the 1370 kHz regional channel, to a class I-A signal on 660 kHz, asking the FCC to downgrade the NBC New York flagship, WEAF, to make way for the Butte station.

In 1998 Lesh underwent a liver transplant as a result of chronic hepatitis C infection ; since then, he has become an outspoken advocate for organ donor programs and when performing regularly encourages members of the audience to become organ donors ( tracks identified as the " donor rap " on the live recordings of his various performances ).

However, this argument fails since, in 1826, Carleton wrote a letter to then Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel urging him against Catholic Emancipation ( Peel was already an outspoken opponent ), and offering to provide proof of the involvement of Daniel O ' Connell in agrarian crimes, while also vilifying the Catholic clergy and Roman Catholic schoolteachers.

Moran apologized for the remarks, saying that " I should not have singled out the Jewish community and regret giving any impression that its members are somehow responsible for the course of action being pursued by the administration, or are somehow behind an impending war ... What I was trying to say is that if more organizations in this country, including religious groups, were more outspoken against war, then I do not think we would be pursuing war as an option.

Jackson was one of the most outspoken supporters of the takeover bid and, when asked of the ramifications of the bid failing, she famously stated, " If anyone thinks this will happen without affecting the ( share ) price then they have a mental problem with how the market works.

One of Gaidar's most outspoken critics was the liberal economist and MP Grigory Yavlinsky, who had proposed since 1990 a 500 Days programme for the transition of the whole USSR to market economic, which was first backed and then dismissed by the government of Nikolai Ryzhkov.

In particular, Cuevas was an early and very outspoken critic of the muralist movement of the then dominant artists of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

In the 1979 general election, he lost his seat, possibly because of his outspoken support for neighbouring MP Jeremy Thorpe, who was then standing trial at the Old Bailey for conspiracy and incitement to murder.

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.

The narrative then alternates among the four daughters, with a slight preference for the voice of the most outspoken one, Leah.

She ran for Congress in 1964 and 1965, and was then seated as a member of Mississippi's legitimate delegation to the Democratic National Convention of 1968, where she was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War.

Next he published an outspoken criticism of Austria, published first in German, then adapted in English ( Austria as it is, or, sketches of continental courts, by an eye-witness, 1828 ) which was published anonymously in London ; this book offended the Austrian authorities, making him a wanted man in that country, but its author's identity remained unknown.

Sympathizing with the Hitlerite movement, he forced 1933 Ferdinand Tönnies, an outspoken enemy of it, and then president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, out of office.

From then on, Hound was an outspoken critic of Jetfire's headstrong tactics against Galvatron.

More recently it has acquired a reputation for electing outspoken MPs, first with the victory of Conservative Anthony Beaumont-Dark in 1979 and then with his defeat by Labour's Lynne Jones in 1992.

He was then criticized by the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) for his outspoken leftist political views.

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

Beaugrand-Champagne believes that the authorities, under pressure by an enraged population looking for a scapegoat for their troubles, took the easy way out and condemned Angélique more on the basis of her independent and outspoken character than on any genuine evidence.

* Lady Elaine Fairchilde ( voiced by Fred Rogers ) — The outspoken, cranky schemer who took over the Museum-Go-Round after the Froggs moved ; often known to say " Okay, toots.

* In a 2011 televized speech, Nasrallah voiced support for the popular uprisings which took place in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain ; he was more outspoken towards the Bahraini issue, expressing strong support for the popular movements, a feat which fueled tensions between Lebanon and Bahrain.

In this regard he took an extremely outspoken line on the crisis in Darfur, calling on the international community to ' wake up to the reality of rape, murder and destruction in the region.

Khakamada, the daughter of a Japanese Communist who took Soviet citizenship in the 1950s, emerged as Putin's most outspoken critic.

For instance, the GOA was outspoken in its opposition to John McCain's 2008 presidential bid, describing his gun-rights voting record as " abysmal, wretched, and pathetic " The GOA took issue with the NRA over the 2007 NICS Improvement Act.

Spiegel was an outspoken critic of lawyers who took what he felt were overly large fees to represent Jews who had been slave laborers during World War II, saying " Earning money should not come before moralistic intentions.

Despite the incipient persecution of leftist and opposition politicians and the presence of the SA, he made an outspoken speech opposing the Enabling Act, which formally took the power of legislation away from the Reichstag and handed it over to the Reich cabinet for a period of four years.

Severance also took up the role of student leadership and was outspoken against US-Soviet occupation.

Since the military coup that deposed Thaksin in 2006, the Post has been more outspoken in its criticism of the old power clique that took over and urged a swift return to democracy.

Roman women had little political freedom in society, but substantial freedom outside of politics, and some were outspoken and took an interest in the politics of their day.

Adolf Hitler took an early liking to outspoken and handsome young Hanke, and in April 1932, Hanke became a NSDAP delegate to Prussian State Parliament ( Landtag ).

In terms of issues, he was heavily motivated by anti-communism throughout his career, was an outspoken opponent of the 1960s counterculture, and took a special interest in what he considered pervasive liberal bias in the news media.

In fact, Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube, a respected human rights activist and outspoken critic of the government, publicly called for a peaceful uprising before the elections took place, claiming that the elections had already been fixed.

The outspoken Vobe went on to achieve the largest number of votes polled by any candidate in Warrington, and took his seat at the Town Hall on 14th May 2012.

Being an outspoken opponent to President Gnassingbe Eyadema dictatorial regime, Amorin was shot in the streets of Lomé by two unidentified men believed to be security force agents on July 23 1992.

In 1995, Vertigo released a number of one shot issues under the collective title " Vertigo Voices ," written by Vertigo's " most outspoken writers.

A caretaker for the center was shot and killed as the gunmen fled, and Bradford, an outspoken critic of the IRA, died after being shot six times.

Then during summer 2009, more than thirteen years after the film's release, outspoken Bosniak actor, nationalist politician, and current Sarajevo Canton Minister of Culture Emir Hadžihafizbegović gave an interview at the 2009 Pula Film Festival in which he went after Dragojević and his crew by calling them " morbid and blasphemous " over the fact that some of the scenes in Pretty Village, Pretty Flame were shot on location in Višegrad, Republika Srpska while the war was still going on in some parts of Bosnia.