Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor GADFLIES
1. Chafee (R–R.I.) came close to a DOA pronouncement when he said that "the president‘s budget proposal is only that: a proposal." With regular Republicans acting as gadflies, the usual gadflies had to improve their game.
2. Rather, like Trutko, they are stubborn gadflies who are involved in long–running feuds with local authorities.
3. "We are big enough and ugly enough to put up with being called fruitcakes or loonies or gadflies.
4. "We are hoping to promote the Rocky Mountain west." Washington gadflies, however, see more calculation than that.
5. Some gadflies that backed past efforts at reform by Obama and McCain are unhappy about the new committees.