US presence became lightning rod But instead of improving relations with Cuba, the Interests Section often served as a lightning rod for confrontation.
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From role model to lightning rod The more Rahmani became a role model, the more she became a lightning rod of criticism that has drawn reaction from top Afghan military officials.
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Musk has been a lightning rod for controversy this year.
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The eccentric billionaire has been a lightning rod for controversies.
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The Kardashians have always been a lightning rod for controversy.
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But it's notable that Sanders became a lightning rod here.
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"He's always been the lightning rod," Manager Joe Girardi said.
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Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" is a lightning rod for linguistic pedantry.
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Weinstein, moreover, took quickly to the part of lightning rod.
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"Ivy is a bit of a lightning rod," Mr. Haiman said.
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Musk, the eccentric billionaire, has been a lightning rod for controversies.
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"Bernie Sanders, I think, is a lightning rod," Mr. Ryan said.
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Gender is not an "ideology", but it is a lightning rod.
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But Thiel, known for co-founding PayPal, is a lightning rod.
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The Attorney General is already a lightning rod for progressive protests.
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Naturally, the show is a lightning rod no matter the times.
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On the campaign trail, healthcare remain a lightning rod for debate.
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Why was Kessel such a lightning rod for media in Toronto?
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Unfortunately, the CFPB has become a partisan lightning rod in Washington.
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Pruitt became a lightning rod from the moment Trump nominated him.
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"We are the lightning rod," the franchisee said, according to CNBC.
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The commission has proved to be a lightning rod for controversy.
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"When you're in my business, you're a lightning rod," he said.
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"What makes me such a lightning rod for fury?" she wrote.
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Pruitt is a lightning rod pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
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A career public servant, Vazquez has been a lightning rod for controversy.
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And this just shuts down the lightning rod for a few days.
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Amid unrest, civic leader Camacho became a lightning rod for the opposition.
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Clinton has been a lightning rod for their base for two decades.
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Mr. Koons is a lightning rod, and has been for some time.
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When did leggings make the leap from garment to cultural lightning rod?
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Franklin's famous kite experiment led to the invention of the lightning rod.
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While an icon on TV, he sometimes became a lightning rod online.
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He had become too controversial and too much of a lightning rod.
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But Mr. Neumann has been a lightning rod for criticism as well.
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He is an unlikely lightning rod: opinionated, perhaps, but far from confrontational.
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Even the lightning-rod moment on the presidential debate stage, when Sen.
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Through it all, though, education has been a lightning rod for criticism.
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If Morrissey was just an outspoken lightning rod, that would be one thing.
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But if it&aposs Judge Barrett, she&aposs a lightning rod on abortion.
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Who knew joking around with guns would be such a lightning rod issue?
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He is sure to be a lightning rod on any abortion-related provisions.
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Perhaps, since Ronnie was so popular, they needed her as a lightning rod.
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Their movement has also become a lightning rod for criticism on the left.
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Moore has been a lightning rod of controversy for more than a decade.
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More than 20 years after its passage, NAFTA remains a political lightning rod.
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Hillary Clinton is a lightning rod that unifies the party's different conservative factions.
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Lightning-rod free-speech cases have often involved figures who are inconveniently unwholesome.
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Ms. Omar's hijab was a lightning rod; so was Ms. Tlaib's Palestinian heritage.
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Sure, Trump makes ill-advised comments and is a lightning rod for controversy.
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Who will play the role of lightning rod, though, is not in question.
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For all his success, Neymar has also proved to be a lightning rod.
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I became a lightning rod for others' fears of disability, dependence and fragility.
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The issue became a lightning rod for views about press freedom and feminism.
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And credit to those who stood up for saving an architectural lightning rod.
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As a lightning rod, he was able to keep pressure on Mr. Kabila.
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But Ms. Patel has been a lightning rod for criticism throughout her career.
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But she has also become a lightning rod, drawing attacks from conservative commentators.
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To say NAFTA has been a political lightning rod would be an understatement.
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The IMF has long been a lightning rod for conflict in Latin America.
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The summit was a political lightning rod long before Trump arrived in Helsinki.
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He knew he had become a lightning rod and he made that decision.
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By the time he left, he was once again a lightning rod for controversy.
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The Alabama bill has been a lightning rod for national controversy from day one.
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The post had become an unlikely lightning rod for public discontent about the stockmarket.
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The Clinton Foundation has become a lightning rod for criticism in the presidential race.
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Schutz's painting is a lightning rod for race relations in our tragically riven time.
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The heartbeat laws promise to become a lightning rod in the upcoming presidential election.
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Ben Shapiro is set to speak -- a conservative lightning rod -- in a powder keg.
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As long as Stumpf remained, he would have been a lightning rod for criticism.
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The issue has becoming a political lightning rod among the base in both parties.
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Republicans made Obamacare the lightning rod for everything that's wrong with the United States.
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If you're going to be a lightning rod, some sparks are probably the price.
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At times he has been a lightning rod for criticism about rising property prices.
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She has been something of a lightning rod in her own party as well.
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The sculptor Jeff Koons has long been a lightning rod in the art world.
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Amazon HQ2 has become a lightning rod on both sides of the political divide.
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Night Trap had become a lightning rod over its depictions of sex and violence.
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But he became a lightning rod during his 15 months as Trump's CIA director.
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The deal has been a political lightning rod since it was hatched in October 2016.
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But this one event became such a lightning rod because it's so public in nature.
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"Baby, It's Cold Outside" continues to be a lightning rod for controversy this holiday season.
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Real-world impact The hunting issue is now a political lightning rod in the country.
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Uber's preexisting status as a lightning rod made it an easy target for a backlash.
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Last year, the lightning rod that is 13 Reasons Why took us all by surprise.
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Leung may have been a lightning rod, but his replacement will draw the same fire.
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CNN, of all outlets, should understand why Conway is such a lightning rod for criticism.
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Johansson was already a lightning rod for those who campaign for greater diversity in Hollywood.
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When Minnesota traded for Sam Bradford before the season, it was a lightning-rod deal.
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National Park Service The national parks became a lightning rod in the 2013 government shutdown.
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Meanwhile, Trump's acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, continues to be a lightning rod for controversy.
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The play's stars, Jennifer Kidwell and Scott Sheppard, developed the piece with Lightning Rod Special.
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Lewandowski had been a lightning rod of controversy both from inside and outside the campaign.
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But unlike her older sister, she has chosen a lightning rod to associate herself with.
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Well, what I'm focused on today, Joe, is being a lightning rod for the USMCA.
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He obviously is a lightning rod for people in the world and certainly to journalists.
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Everyone seems willing to let her be a lightning rod — including, notably, Ocasio-Cortez herself.
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Making himself a lightning rod with controversial views has always been central to his career.
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Because if you're a columnist at the New York Times, you're really a lightning rod.
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In these days of renewed culture war, that's enough to make her a lightning rod.
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As a senator, she has softened her positions on both of these lightning rod issues.
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Today, Bannon is best known as a right-wing lightning rod who can attract press.
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In domestic Malaysian politics, Forest City has also become something of a political lightning rod.
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Mattel's Barbie was an icon and a lightning rod as soon as she was released.
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"Crooked would add partisan lightning rod dynamic Bloomberg *currently* avoids in the general," Miller wrote.
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Khashoggi's disappearance has become such a "lightning rod" that it prevented finding common ground, he said.
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"SETI, at least by that name, has always been a political lightning rod," write the authors.
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Since then, he has made a name for himself as a lightning rod around social issues.
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Drug pricing has become a lightning rod for criticism with several drugmakers coming under federal investigations.
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The protests have become a lightning rod for opposition to President Paul Biya's 35-year rule.
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The use of temporary troops and contractors has also been a lightning rod for political controversy.
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He has also become a lightning rod for controversy and a target of voting rights activists.
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The star has become a pop culture lightning rod for Trump's presidency, and is often defaced.
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The view is very different among Democrats, where Pruitt is a lightning rod for criticism. Sen.
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Washington (CNN)Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been a lightning rod since taking office in February.
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My Gospel was produced by Beau Bedford and is out October 14 on Lightning Rod Records.
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How one mysterious church became a lightning rod for South Koreans' anger over the coronavirus outbreak.
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And he scaled back civil liberties in ways that made him a lightning rod for opponents.
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Given its size, experts say, Carnival regularly becomes a lightning rod for problems afflicting the industry.
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The pipeline was opposed by many environmentalists and became a political lightning rod during its construction.
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Moore is seen as the anti-establishment candidate and has been a lightning rod for controversy.
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But she has also become a lightning rod, drawing attacks by television and social media commentators.
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Now as we're in 2019, heading towards the 2020 election, immigration is a lightning rod topic.
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West is a lightning rod — a producer, a rapper, a problematic fave and a Jesus freak.
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And Hillary Clinton's pretty much the lightning rod for all of them, it feels like it.
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Since it's announcement last year, it has also become a lightning rod for abuse on social media.
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Needless to say, it's exceptionally difficult to capture the precise moment when lightning strikes a lightning rod.
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It boils down to trust: Data governance has been a lightning rod because its new and scary.
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Her case has emerged as a lightning rod for people on both sides of the abortion debate.
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In primaries (as opposed to special elections), President Trump's endorsement has proven to be a lightning rod.
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It seems like the Warped Tour, since its earliest days, has been a lightning rod for controversy.
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Voters cast 311,422 ballots in the close contest between the embattled governor and a conservative lightning rod.
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C. Wonder's colorful, monogram-filled stores were a lightning rod for controversy during its four-year lifespan.
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It's not hard to understand why Harvey, a media lightning rod with a bloated 6.02 ERA, bailed.
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Whatever U.S. leaders say publicly — under any administration — tends to be a lightning rod in South Africa.
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The CFPB has been a political lightning rod since the 28503 Dodd-Frank Act established the agency.
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This amendment is a political lightning rod, and as such, should not be rammed through the legislature.
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But the organization's proposal to build a cemetery there became a lightning rod in this small town.
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She's been a lightning rod for conservative critics, as well as irritating some in her own party.
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It also transformed Colin Kaepernick into a lightning rod and a powerful symbol of activism and resistance.
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Stone's own words have turned him into a lightning rod when it comes to the Russia investigation.
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The fight for Kavanaugh's documents has emerged a lightning rod in the months-long Supreme Court battle.
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But it is also a story about soccer as a unique cultural lightning rod for those forces.
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Lightning-rod recipes — especially those that experiment with regional, ethnic or traditional cuisines — can provoke fierce reactions.
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For over 40 years, Ms. MacKinnon, 71, has been a pioneer and lightning rod for sex equality.
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But she was nonetheless a lightning rod for a preservationist movement that remains controversial to this day.
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But by time the show aired, things had changed, and the show had become a lightning rod.
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From the moment he was appointed a year ago, Attorney General Raúl Cervantes was a lightning rod.
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"For Democrats here, Kobach is seen as an even bigger lightning rod than Brownback," Mr. Davis said.
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But shortly after the last boys were extracted, the tube became a lightning rod for renewed criticism.
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Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware is his team's top tackler and a lightning rod for criticism on Twitter.
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Palin has been a political lightning rod in the past, but is now largely off the stage.
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Huawei has become a lightning rod in the broader trade war between the United States and China.
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What this has done I think is act as a bit of a lightning rod for investors.
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The Mexican peso, which has become a lightning rod for market anxiety, slipped 217 percent against the dollar.
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They are, for a moment, a lightning rod of all possible emotions, hopes, and dreams about a game.
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While he hasn't succeeded, Planned Parenthood and its services continues to be a lightning rod for the right.
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For decades, the billionaire who runs an expansive conservative donor network has been a lightning rod for controversy.
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The House Select Committee on Benghazi became a political lightning rod and polarized Congress on heavily partisan lines.
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Trump content was like a lightning rod: people were sharing and talking about him a whole lot more.
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The investigation into Russia's influence on the 23 campaign has been a political lightning rod since its inception.
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Calling him a "political lightning rod," Bergeron explained his "preference" was for Spicer to not have been cast.
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Discount retailer Dollar Tree's core business model is a lightning rod for tariff impact, according to Credit Suisse.
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Mr. Murdoch resigned as chairman in early 2012, he said, to avoid becoming a "lightning rod" for Sky.
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The White House has been rather noncommittal on the border tax provision, which has been a lightning rod.
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Snyder, a Republican, has become a lightning rod for criticism because the crisis unfolded under the state's watch.
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The Republican governor has become a lightning rod for criticism because the crisis unfolded under the state's watch.
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But in its effort to protect travelers, the agency also has become a lightning rod for criticism. Rep.
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The plan has become a lightning rod for the party's progressive base, with several 85033 candidates including Sens.
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"When the tail fin momentarily sagged, a lightning rod cable wrapped around the fin, tearing it," he said.
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The murder has become a lightning rod, dividing the White House and a usually supportive Republican-led Senate.
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In the role of faculty dean at Harvard, a lightning rod like Sullivan is wrong for the job.
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He has become a lightning rod for his outspokenness and a target of fake news and conspiracy theories.
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But instead of appreciation, the speech sparked ill will and made Rousseff a lightning rod for the protests.
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What you will definitely not feel after this remarkable phantasmagoria from the Lightning Rod Special troupe is clearheaded.
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Lightning Rod is a new role for Mr. Pence, who has so far perfected his good-cop appearance.
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Mr. Soros's activism has made him a lightning rod for criticism among some conservatives and right-wing activists.
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The monument has emerged as a lightning rod in the fight over control of land in the West.
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Then on Thursday night, that old lightning rod, Alex Rodriguez, showed up — his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, in tow.
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But with its sizable budget and power in the housing market, it has been a political lightning rod.
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Bishop Richard J. Malone "had become the lightning rod for all that was wrong," a lay leader said.
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Quicken Loans' growing role in parts of the mortgage market may make it a lightning rod for critics.
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Ms. Chung has become a lightning rod for public anger as lurid accusations have emerged about her lifestyle.
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It is likely that the Green New Deal will remain a lightning rod throughout the 2020 presidential campaign.
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Drug pricing has become a lightning rod for criticism with several drugmakers coming under federal investigation for price gouging.
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So by your estimation, why has Three Billboards managed to be both popular and a lightning rod for controversy?
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Her name has become a lightning rod for partisan rhetoric, martyred by the left and demonized by the right.
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Xi has vowed to eradicate official corruption, long a lightning rod for the Chinese public's discontent with the government.
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"The fact that DeVos is such a lightning rod has highlighted issues of educational inequality and inequity," Melvoin said.
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It's not exactly a rare event—the construction of the building makes it a lightning rod for the area.
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Gimelstob, 38, is a lightning rod for anybody railing against the conflicts of interest that are rife in tennis.
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LePage is a lightning rod for controversy, but as a term-limited governor, he's now on his way out.
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Farishta's death has become a lightning rod in a country where there is widespread violence against children and women.
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Videos of the multi-racial group have become a lightning rod for fan anger, with thousands posting their disapproval.
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But says he was not prepared to become the political lightning rod that his new position has made him.
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Duke lightning rod Grayson Allen is ending 2016 much like he began it: tripping people on the basketball court.
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Background: The bird, which has a unique mating dance, became a lightning rod in the debate over endangered species.
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For months, Mr. Lewandowski had been a lightning rod for controversy, making headlines about himself that overshadowed his boss.
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Papal vestments, Gibson pointed out, are a lightning rod for questions about the church's response to modernity more generally.
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The defense and health appropriations bills, in particular, are a lightning rod for controversial, partisan amendments from both sides.
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During her time at Planned Parenthood, Richards became an unfortunate lightning rod, absorbing much of the far-right's vitriol.
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The tactic has become a political lightning rod — highly dangerous, yet extraordinarily effective, but it's not a new phenomenon.
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"The Night Of" follows Naz through Rikers Island, then through his trial, which becomes a news media lightning rod.
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The debate on pipeline permitting has been a lightning rod in national energy policy for much of a decade.
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Thomas Jefferson has long been a lightning rod, but the past year has been tougher on him than usual.
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Beyond its recent disclosure of private information, the commission has proven a political lightning rod in its own right.
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He again became a lightning rod for the left, which regarded him as a sinister influence on Soviet policy.
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Small wonder that McNamara became the lightning rod for critics, his name plastered all over placards in antiwar marches.
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Instead, she's throwing up a lightning rod issue to distract from the larger point of accountability of the president.
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On the right she has become a lightning rod for those who fear and loathe a rising progressive energy.
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The French burkini brouhaha has become a lightning rod for debates about whether modernity and Islamic values can coexist.
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We also have tips for securely mounting your flat-screen TV. Lately, leggings have become a cultural lightning rod.
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Separately, our chief fashion critic asks a question: When did leggings become such a cultural and political lightning rod?
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Their latest work marked a departure by focusing instead on a political lightning rod: the notion of national identity.
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Walsh, on the other hand, made his name for being a controversial lightning rod -- in and out of office.
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"She's a lightning rod," said Dianne Enriquez, a director at the Center for Popular Democracy, a liberal advocacy group.
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"She's a lightning rod," said Dianne Enriquez, a director at the Center for Popular Democracy, a liberal advocacy group.
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In fact, he became a lightning rod for criticism, including from members of Congress who called for his resignation.
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This production from the innovative Lightning Rod Special begins as a middle school history lesson about the underground railroad.
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Repeatedly subjected to tough questioning by Democrats at congressional hearings, Nielsen became a lightning rod for criticism of Trump's policies.
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And with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker up for reelection today, the project has become a bit of a lightning rod.
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For This Is Us fandom, that kitchen appliance and the fire it caused became a lightning rod for tense speculation.
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"We are the biggest lightning-rod non profit ever," he told BuzzFeed News in a series of Twitter private messages.
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That being said, what Singletary -- and his lightning rod of a head coach -- is getting done is worthy of notice.
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But whether or not you're a fan of the college football star turned lightning rod for snarky jokes, get ready.
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In an attempt to protect it from the bolt, the second Phantom 3 was outfitted with a makeshift lightning rod.
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Breitbart's long history of racist and sexist content has made it a lightning rod for people of all political persuasions.
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Like Trump's campaign, Le Pen's has been a lightning rod for political controversy during her leadership of the National Front.
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Location, too, has become a lightning rod for privacy advocates, in light of a series of ongoing location-sharing scandals.
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It's a far cry from the destruction Trump's star received earlier this year ... becoming a lightning rod for street fights.
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Winners this week answered correctly that Franklin invented a lightning rod, bifocals and swim fins, but not the light bulb.
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The most compelling reason is that Comey had become a lightning rod: hated by Clinton supporters, distrusted by Bush alumni.
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While Mr. da Silva was a symbol of a nation's hopes, Ms. Rousseff became a lightning rod for its frustrations.
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As Donald Trump prepares to meet China's president Xi Jinping, a lightning rod of 2017 is on his agenda: trade.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos DeVos was a lightning rod for controversy several times this year, starting with her contentious nomination.
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My body, my choice The broader topic of gender equality has become a lightning rod in Pakistan in recent months.
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The program quickly was billed as a bailout, making it deeply unpopular and Mr. Paulson a lightning rod for criticism.
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There seemed to be little they could do with a lightning-rod professional football player who was not playing football.
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And we also have guidance on securely mount your flat-screen TV. Lately, leggings have become a cultural lightning rod.
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He has also become a lightning rod for criticism, including from Ehud Barak, the former prime minister and army chief.
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Puig, the Dodgers' lightning-rod outfielder, smashed a three-run homer against Pill and admired it standing at home plate.
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But the impending layoffs have become a lightning rod issue because of Neumann's golden parachute included with the SoftBank bailout.
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In all cases, fashion became a proxy for the lightning rod that is the Trump name — and possibly its casualty.
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Because if they did, and they understood what was true then, I wouldn't be the lightning rod that I am.
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It's a winning strategy in the UK, where the Bake Off is a runaway success and a cultural lightning rod.
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We broke the story ... despite Trump's star being a lightning rod for violence and vandalism, it's not going away anytime soon.
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I mean, you are becoming such a lightning rod, I don&apost know why, but people have visceral reactions to you.
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To tide you over, you can listen to Have Mercy below ahead of its June 22 release on Lightning Rod Records.
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The proposal also does not address family separations at the border, which have become a lightning rod issue for the administration.
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I think the real takeaway is Peter Strzok was a lightning rod, you know, because he was so arrogant and defiant.
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"We were concerned about whether the attachment with the Obamas would be like a lightning rod," Reichert, 73, told VICE News.
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More recently, the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have become a lightning rod for controversies between China and international corporations.
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"I have become the 'Poster Boy' of bank default and a lightning rod of public anger," Mallya said in his statement.
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The saga has become a lightning rod for debate about the role of money in the legal system and civic affairs.
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Kelly, the Fox News anchor and lightning rod for Donald Trump's hate, came into Thursday night's debate under plenty of pressure.
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Yes, but: At the same time, Barclays points out that it's an area that's such a lightning rod for environmental controversy.
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" On Twitter Thursday, she reflected on the visibility of her cover story, which declared her "the phenom" and "America's lightning rod.
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At the time, he was a well-respected intelligence source and had not become the political lightning rod he is today.
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The pipeline has been a lightning rod in national energy policy for much of a decade since its proposal by TransCanada.
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Dicamba, the weed killer at the center of the dispute between Wallace and Jones, has become a lightning rod for controversy.
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Patriotism and Protest in Art Art has often served as a lightning rod for dialogue about the meaning of national symbols.
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The cow, sacred to Hindus, has become a lightning rod for the Hindu right under Mr. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party government.
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Elon Musk has long established himself as a both a visionary CEO and a lightning rod for attention, good and bad.
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The FBI had come under intense pressure from Trump and some Republicans in Congress to fire Strzok, a political lightning rod.
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The video of Jim's death was a lightning rod, especially for those who knew he had been missing for two years.
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The nuclear project became a lightning rod for criticism, with local politicians arguing over who should pay for the aborted project.
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This one may well be something different: once again a lightning rod for debate, and possibly censure, given the current conversation.
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It also demonstrates that the monumental structure has long been a political lightning rod used by emperors, sultans, and now presidents.
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If 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story' were a little more interesting, maybe it would be that lightning rod.
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We also have guidance on how to securely mount your flat-screen TV. Lately, leggings have become a cultural lightning rod.
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If "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story" were a little more interesting, maybe it would be that lightning rod.
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Ovechkin, the most productive goal-scorer of his era, has been a lightning rod for adulation and excoriation in his career.
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ESPN, increasingly criticized by conservatives for what they see as liberal editorializing, was suddenly a lightning rod in a political clash.
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AI has become a lightning rod for economic and political tension between the US and China over the past few years.
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The case became a lightning rod for criticism of the IDF, the military court system, and its treatment of Palestinian youth.
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And even if it does, the highly political nature of many board decisions will make it a lightning rod for controversy.
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After she delivered a pointed speech at the United Nations in September, the young activist became a lightning rod for criticism.
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The annual bill normally gets bipartisan support, but its status as must-pass legislation also makes it a policy lightning rod.
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By the time he retired in 2014, he had become a lightning rod for controversy over his views on climate change.
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Those figures have made Abbott a lightning rod in the debate over public preschool in general and teacher credentials in particular.
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No. The single fluid theory of electricity is an awesome discovery, and so too is the invention of the lightning rod.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders has become a lightning rod for Trump's politics, and we're wondering who could snag your vote in 2020.
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It's not difficult to see how a lightning-rod figure like Kanye West would start to come apart at the seams.
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The TPP was a giant lightning rod for criticism, but it's not the only major free trade deal in Trump's hands.
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People everywhere are already eager for lightning-rod trumped-up reasons to hate the Valley and the tech industry as a whole.
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The so-called "Wolf Pack" trial has acted as a lightning rod for Spain's attitudes towards sexual violence and sexual violence survivors.
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McCain joined "The View" in 2017, replacing Jedediah Bila as the conservative voice on the program and quickly becoming a lightning rod.
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Barr's comments that seemed to vindicate the President sparked an immediate backlash in Washington and turned Barr into a political lightning rod.
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They were submitted for consideration before the show was axed and no one — including its lightning-rod star — asked to be withdrawn.
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Xi has vowed to eradicate official corruption, which has long been a lightning rod for the Chinese public's discontent with the government.
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Johnson tells PEOPLE he definitely had a shortlist of women to pursue after his volatile hookup with Bachelor lightning rod Lace Morris.
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Illegal immigration has been a lightning rod issue for Trump, who has repeatedly said illegal immigrants were responsible for many violent crimes.
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But the internet and social media have a way of crystallizing this story and turning Gregg into a lightning rod for hate.
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The annual defense bill normally gets bipartisan support, but its status as must-pass legislation also makes it a policy lightning rod.
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Dash has used the platform to become a lightning rod for controversy, "bringing Republican trollism into the mainstream," as BET put it.
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The efforts would also eventually benefit a high-speed rail project in the state, which has been a lightning rod among Republicans.
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Her advocacy has made her appointment a lightning rod for Democrats, while Republicans who opposed Trump's candidacy, such as former Florida Gov.
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The New York Democrat has become a lightning rod for conservative criticism since her stunning primary defeat of 10-term incumbent Rep.
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Avoiding 'poison pills': The defense and health appropriations bills, in particular, are a lightning rod for controversial, partisan amendments from both sides.
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The plan has become a lightning rod among the progressive base and 2020 Democrats, with several of the front-runners, including Sens.
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That's also why Colton Underwood, Bachelorette reject and Bachelor In Paradise lightning rod, was tapped this week to be the 2019 Bachelor.
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Giuliani has become a lightning rod during his tenure on Trump's team, drawing the president's ire for a series of scattershot interviews.
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Neumann has been a lightning rod, given his financial entanglements with the company he ran, as well as his unconventional leadership style.
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Last week, it was Odell Beckham Jr., the Giants' popular lightning rod of a wide receiver who exited the arena in pain.
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A lightning rod for conservative critics, he is now squarely in the middle of the social and political debates convulsing the country.
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CNN remains a lightning rod for President Trump, the target of "fake news" chants at rallies and the president's own vicious tweets.
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The show was a lightning rod for its audience, attracting both a loyal fan base and a steadfast community of ruthless critics.
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She became a lightning rod for anger over social injustice for revelations that she got preferential treatment because of her mother's ties.
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The Florida congresswoman, a lightning rod for criticism during her tenure, announced that she would step down immediately after the convention ended.
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The lira has long been a pinball of geopolitics and lightning rod for relations between Ankara and its Western allies, specifically Washington.
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The federal student aid office has been a lightning rod for criticism over the effectiveness and expense of its debt collection programs.
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The Wii launch was a lightning rod for getting a mainstream audience interested in video game consoles, but the storm passed quickly.
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Bernie Sanders is a lightning rod thanks to "Bernie Bros" and his role in 2016, but I still find this pretty funny.
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Though politics have always been non-ideal topics of intergenerational conversation, Trump&aposs proven to be a lightning rod unlike any other.
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And Mr. Trump may be a lightning rod, but he is not the only president to face a protest from an athlete.
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What she's saying: Go deeper: Tulsi Gabbard is the 2020 field's lightning rod Tulsi Gabbard on the issues, in under 500 words
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Go deeper: Tulsi Gabbard on impeachment vote: "I did not take the easy vote" Tulsi Gabbard is the 2020 field's lightning rod
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It was less than three months after 220/220, and Lindh, who grew up in California, became a lightning rod for American anger.
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It was less than three months after 9/11, and Lindh, who grew up in California, became a lightning rod for American anger.
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But as the nation's politics become more polarized and Kaepernick remains jobless, the league's biggest game has become a lightning rod for controversy.
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Mexico found itself replacing China as the lightning rod for trade tensions with Washington, only for the focus to shift back to Beijing.
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Tech companies have provided a lightning rod for angry Bay Area locals who have seen tech money dramatically change neighborhoods and rent prices.
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Conway wanted to highlight the competence of Trump's appointee — Flynn knew he had become a "lightning rod," so he chose to step down.
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It was released publicly Thursday afternoon — and is guaranteed to become a lightning rod in President Trump's clashes with his own Justice Department.
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Unfortunately, without a structural change, it will continue to lack institutional integrity and remain a political lightning rod with every change in Administration.
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He sparked a debate last week when he was asked why he thinks he's become more of a lightning rod than other athletes.
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Resistance could come from Congo's Catholic church, which has slowly transformed from a mediator for peace to lightning rod for dissatisfaction with Kabila.
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At the same time, he became a lightning rod for critics, including President Trump, who said he was unpatriotic and disrespecting the flag.
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In the nine months since the book's release, Vance has been something of a lightning rod for both the left and the right.
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The case has become a lightning rod among 2020 Democrats after several presidential candidates were quick to denounce the January incident, with Sen.
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Ultimately, Tully may be so controversial specifically because motherhood is such a lightning rod in terms of race, class, and, well, everything else.
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So-called sanctuary cities, local governments that limit cooperation with the feds on immigration, have become a lightning rod in the immigration debate.
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The issue has become a lightning rod in the hotly contested race for the US Senate in Missouri, with Hawley challenging Democratic Sen.
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New York (CNN Business)Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell is a lightning rod for criticism on Wall Street and in the White House.
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Cunha is a lightning rod of ire for those who opposed Rousseff's impeachment, carried out on the grounds that she broke budgetary rules.
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Senators will work this week to navigate a package of spending bills that are normally a political lightning rod across the Senate floor.
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The campaign served as a lightning rod of controversy, with some praising and some criticizing the brand for apparently featuring a lesbian couple.
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When you first did Kids, did you have any idea of the lightning rod it would become and the publicity it would get?
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He will not allow the court to become a political lightning rod, and he will ensure that it charts a moderate conservative course.
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Mark Cuban looks to be cozying up to Donald Trump again, or at least the President-elect's lightning rod of a chief strategist.
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By the spring of 2008, Obama's candidacy, just as Johnson predicted, had become a lightning rod for white supremacists and other hate groups.
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Of course, becoming a lightning rod for conservative criticism wasn't necessarily a bad thing in the eyes of her boss, President Bill Clinton.
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That's one of the things you need to know about "The Appointment," the new musical satire from the Philadelphia company Lightning Rod Special.
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The result, as it must be for 2019, is a more ambivalent, feminist reading of Argentina's first lady, lay saint and lightning rod.
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As Leonard is rarely heard, and George — who also is now injured — can be prickly, Rivers takes the role of the lightning rod.
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I didn't know then that my mischievous cousin would one day become a lightning rod for an entire nation's attention — and its prejudices.
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Shkreli, the company's former lightning rod CEO, has since stepped down after facing federal fraud charges separate from his work at the company.
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He will campaign with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose get-tough approach to illegal immigration has made him a national lightning rod.
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As a result, Soros has become a lightning rod for conservative and right-wing groups who object to his funding of liberal causes.
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For being interracial siblings, Parker and Zema are both a lightning rod for the country's racism and a last vestige of its music.
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Now that facial recognition has become a new lightning rod for critics, Microsoft is taking the lead in calling for some regulatory restraint.
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The party has been wary of breaking with Trump on border security, which has emerged as a lightning rod among the party's base.
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And he's a lightning rod and deserves a lot of the enmity that he's created versus you guys are a hot shit startup.
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Monsanto, the largest - though not the only - maker of genetically modified seeds, has been a lightning rod for environmentalists' opposition to the technology.
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It entails linking vulnerable House Republicans to the lightning rod candidate in the hopes that bipartisan distaste for Trump will sink them both.
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Mexico's peso, a lightning rod for trade sentiment across emerging markets, extended Thursday's tumble to weaken 23 percent - its weakest level in 18 months.
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He has an antique lightning rod from a shirt company in Hell's Kitchen, oil cans found when the old Pennsylvania Station was being dismantled.
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For once the ladies of The Bold Type do not, and cannot, agree on a common liberal, feminist, millennial lightning rod of a topic.
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Giuliani has become a lightning rod during his tenure on Trump&aposs team, drawing the president&aposs ire for a series of scattershot interviews.
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In a country where intimate ties between money, power and politics have toppled governments and sparked violent attacks, impunity can be a lightning rod.
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In France, which has some of the strictest rules on visible religious symbols in Europe, the issue has been a lightning rod for years.
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The tech company's dispute with the U.S. government has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States.
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" At home: "In the U.S., where Mr. Soros is a major contributor to liberal and Democratic causes, he is a lightning rod for conservatives.
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Access to paperwork from Brett Kavanaugh's years as a White House lawyer and staff secretary has become a lightning rod in the nomination fight.
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Clarke, long a critic of Black Lives Matter and progressives who critique police practices, became a lightning rod for pro law-and-order conservatives.
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And I just think that it's also something that can be used as a partisan lightning rod that we need to try to avoid.
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But some of his initiatives, inspired by the Second Vatican Council reforms, made him a lightning rod for criticism by conservatives within the church.
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Though both sides say they support additional humanitarian aid, Trump's immigration policies have emerged as a lightning rod among the base in both parties.
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One of Warren's central campaign promises — and a policy lightning rod on Wall Street — is to introduce a wealth tax on America's largest fortunes.
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The project became a lightning rod for American environmentalists who argued that the oil sands in Alberta were a particularly dirty source of energy.
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"Steve was -- I always liked Steve, but Steve became very ineffective because he was such a lightning rod," Trump said, according the The Journal.
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"This is probably the first time I've ever not been upset about the turnaround," said Odell Beckham Jr., the team's lightning-rod wide receiver.
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I don't mean to pick on Harvard but it has been a lightning rod in this national debate and it is important to me.
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"Gemini," the appealingly modest solo LP whose songs Macklemore will perform tonight, has occasioned less passion; it's just an album, not a lightning rod.
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But, ultimately, each narrative fails to appreciate the "cocktail of factors" that made Salem a lightning rod for hysteria in the late 17th century.
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Even though fining people is theoretically less divisive than jailing them, it would still be a lightning rod for controversy in the Trump era.
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A lightning rod for controversy, Mr. Stern proposed a new crime, "arborcide," with jail time for tree-killers and a tree victim's compensation fund.
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It also helps that Walmart's status as a lightning rod may be diminishing as working conditions at Amazon make it the target du jour.
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"When he had to talk down the number, that became a lightning rod for criticism," said Deane Dray, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
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It's hard to remember (in internet years) that before 20193, Swift was just a teen pop star and not yet a cultural lightning rod.
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That the conversation around a bot research project could so quickly spin out of control illustrates what a lightning rod artificial intelligence has become.
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The annual bill's status as must-pass legislation makes it a lightning rod for lawmakers hoping to change an administration's defense and foreign policy.
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The lightning rod Breitbart executive and now former White House chief strategist is headed back where he came from rejoining the conservative news organization.
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She has become a lightning rod, taking criticism from all corners of the internet, periodically finding herself at the bottom of a pile-on.
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From the time he entered public life in the 1960s, Mr. Lester was periodically a lightning rod for controversies centering on race and religion.
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Beyoncé has been a political lightning rod all year thanks to her defiant songs championing the right to protest and criticize abuses of power.
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Schools Superintendent Austin Beutner, an investment banker and former Los Angeles deputy mayor without experience in education, has become a lightning rod in negotiations.
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The answer could be newly engineered tiny golden "nanoneedles," which function like a lightning rod to catalyze a reaction that splits CO2 molecules apart.
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But given Barr's own political views and Roseanne's reigning spot in today's pop culture zeitgeist, it became a lightning rod of controversy almost immediately.
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Which is exactly why I call it the perfect Silicon Valley story: everyone is looking for lightning-rod reasons to hate the Valley right now.
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The proposed line, which would run about 1,180 miles (1,899 km) from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska, has been a lightning rod of controversy.
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Even so, his unique role as a cultural lightning rod—and especially his status as a pharmaceutical price-gouger—could cause him some extra trouble.
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Pruitt, who has long viewed the EPA skeptically and has sued the agency repeatedly as Oklahoma attorney general, is a lightning rod of a pick.
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Its only power is to act as the lightning rod of emotion, expressing feeling and experience in language unfettered by the rules of other forms.
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But a mantle as defender of cosmopolitan globalism would make her even more of a "lightning rod and provocation" for the populists, says one insider.
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But the mantle of defender of cosmopolitan globalism would make Mrs Merkel even more of a "lightning rod and provocation" for populists, says one insider.
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She was criticized for performing in a hijab; the very tool she used to build a rabid fan base became a lightning rod for hate.
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Before Hamilton was a Broadway smash and a lightning rod for controversy in Trump's America, it was just a searing collection of beats and rhymes.
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"Bonfire of the Vanities" (1987) captured the spirit of Manhattan in the 1980s—and became a commercial success and cultural lightning rod as a result.
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But, the best little-heard moment arrived when Dodd attempted to figure out what was wrong with co-star and human lightning rod Vicki Gunvalson.
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He says Cambridge Analytica was a "lightning rod" for a confluence of feelings about President Trump's election, Facebook, Brexit, and the rising use of data.
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The watchdog has been a lightning rod for Republican outrage ever since Elizabeth Warren first proposed the idea as a professor at Harvard Law School.
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Eminem has been a lightning rod for controversy due to comments -- in his music and not -- that have been described as misogynistic and anti-gay.
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In addition to border wall funding, a DHS bill would also act as a lightning rod for a larger fight over Trump's other immigration policies.
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The dispute acted as a lightning rod for frustrations against Buhari, who fought in the civil war on the government side as a young soldier.
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Mr. Trump also offered multiple contradictory views on the lightning-rod issue of abortion, including a suggestion that women be punished for ending their pregnancies.
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But rather than quell tensions, the swift police action has had the opposite effect, transforming the case into a lightning rod for radical sectarian anger.
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But it also set the stage for the monument, known as "Comfort Women: Pillar of Strength," to become a lightning rod between the two cities.
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The charismatic voice of such sentiment in the United States is the Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the lightning rod of a new American politics.
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It will also place Mr. Soros, a lightning rod for conservative critics, squarely in the middle of the social and political debates convulsing the country.
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Some have been inspired by #MeToo, the March for Our Lives and protests against President Trump and his lightning-rod secretary of education, Betsy DeVos.
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And it captured CNN's lightning-rod position in the debate over the role of the media in Mr. Trump's rise and, now, his looming presidency.
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The project was a lightning rod and a symbol of the fight between increased use of oil from allies and decreased use of fossil fuels.
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And for that reason, too, it has become a lightning rod in the ongoing debate over the politics of transgender roles in television and film.
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The Keystone XL has become a lightning rod in a movement to discourage oil production by blocking pipelines, the primary way of transporting it to market.
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A $1,000 winter coat has become an unlikely lightning rod for the Chinese public's anger over last weekend's arrest of a senior technology executive in Canada.
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Over the California native's tenure as both House minority leader and Speaker, many have come to see her as a divisive lightning rod within the party.
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It has been a lightning rod of contention between energy companies that want to develop it and conservationists that want to protect it since the 1970s.
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Mr Stoltenberg, a Norwegian whose job is to act as a kind of lightning-rod for storms raging inside NATO, tried hard to accentuate the positive.
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And, yet, the Roseanne trailer, airing ahead of the comedy's March 27 return, immediately proved itself to be a lightning rod of a one-minute video.
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After she revealed that she was gay in 1997, her '90s sitcom Ellen was canceled a year later and said she became a national lightning rod.
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Since Freeport won the right in 1988 to mine Grasberg, it has been a lightning rod for grievances over impacts on the environment and revenue sharing.
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The announcement comes as senators are struggling to reach an agreement to prevent a heated debate on immigration, a political lightning rod for both parties' bases.
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The bank became a lightning rod for opposition fury because one of its board members was the father of a close Renzi ally and cabinet minister.
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And while his poll numbers might have stayed the same, the Russia investigation might not have become the lightning rod that's energized Democrats and demoralized Republicans.
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The NDAA has been signed into law for nearly 60 consecutive years, making it a lightning rod for a wide array of related and unrelated measures.
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Those messages, which were critical of Trump and other political figures during the 2016 presidential campaign, have been a lightning rod among figures on the right.
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Franklin's story of launching a successful printing business, inventing bifocal glasses and creating the lightning rod inspires Must to create new products and launch new businesses.
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The NDAA has been signed into law for nearly 2628 consecutive years, making it a lightning rod for a wide array of related and unrelated measures.
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It also marks the next chapter for a policy that has become a lightning rod in the debate over the government's role in slowing climate change.
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The aircraft has been a lightning rod for opponents to the heavy U.S. military presence on Okinawa, which lies south of the main Japanese island group.
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The Khashoggi killing has made deals with the Saudis a lightning-rod issue, particularly for companies looking to cultivate a more socially responsible image for themselves.
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Despite his not having a job right now, Kaepernick has become such a lightning rod in in the NFL that this became news at the time.
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His comments echo a shift that the entire NRA has been making in the Trump era: taking their unapologetic approach to other lightning rod political issues.
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He has been here for three years now and is a little bit of a lightning rod because of what he does on the football field.
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He has become a lightning rod on the left over his animated defense of President Trump in the investigation into Russian meddling during the 2600 election.
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Her sharing of thousands of confidential military and diplomatic documents in 2010 with WikiLeaks, along with her gender transition, have made her a cultural lightning rod.
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Mr. Johnson's chief aide, Dominic Cummings, who appeared to revel in the feud with Parliament, has become a lightning rod for criticism of the government's strategy.
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While his district is much more conservative, King has become a lightning rod for associating himself with white supremacists across the country and around the world.
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Koch Industries, overseen by the famous Koch Brothers, has long been a lightning rod for boycotts due to the right-wing proclivities of its dominant owners.
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In April, Laurence Rossignol, the French minister for women's rights, fired the first salvo at what became the fashion lightning rod of the summer: the Burkini.
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"Elizabeth Warren being a political lightning rod meant that there was a sort of mistrust about the intent of the agency," one former CFPB official said.
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The accusations have roiled politics in Taiwan, as well as in Australia, where reports about Chinese influence in the government have become a political lightning rod.
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She's not quite a cipher so much as a lightning rod, attracting vehement perspectives that strike her every now and then before the electricity wears off.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam Newton suggested for the first time Wednesday that race might be a factor in why he had become a lightning rod for public criticism.
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As all hell is breaking loose in the season finale, it's noted that her violin bow is being used as a lightning rod to conduct her power.
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Even some Democrats who haven't been viewed as top-tier challengers (or as facing lightning-rod opponents who help them print money) have posted some huge totals.
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While it ruffled feathers on the Judiciary Committee and Schiff is a lightning rod for GOP criticism, he is the most gifted public prosecutor the Democrats have.
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She's now a lightning rod because of her support for Donald Trump, her appeal to the MAGA crowd, and her love on Twitter of fringe conspiracy theories.
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Those price increases combined with Mr. Shkreli's jeering response to his critics has made him a lightning rod for public outrage and fodder for the presidential campaign.
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"I see them as a lightning rod," said an official with another gun control group, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of concerns about alienating supporters.
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Some don't agree with it, some do agree with it, but I think, no matter what, they kind of see it as a really good lightning rod.
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The case has garnered international attention and has been a lightning rod for debates about how and when law enforcement should be able to access online data.
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For Americans of a certain age, Chappaquiddick is a lightning rod of controversy, with people's opinions about who was at fault often falling along largely political lines.
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The timetable for California's project is fuzzy at best at this point, which does little to dissuade opponents of one of the state's biggest lightning-rod issues.
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That's because a controversial question is increasingly becoming a political lightning rod: Can local governments limit their cooperation with the feds when it comes to immigration enforcement?
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She should be the musical's lightning rod, the wide-eyed ingénue whose blossoming sexuality as viewed through the Transylvanians' eyes defines the trajectory of half the show.
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Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is becoming a lightning rod for criticism as much for an inability to control his emotions as his wondrous pass-catching abilities.
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Her case was a lightning rod for the anxiety Bangladeshis feel about yaba use among young people, with many commentators blaming the drug for warping Rahman's mind.
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The attack on Rice, a lightning rod on the right who was a trusted confidante for the former president, is just the latest flashpoint between the administrations.
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Kobach, who helped on the Trump transition team, is a lightning rod for critics who have accused him of extreme racism and having ties to white nationalists.
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Wal-Mart, the big-box behemoth where nearly every American shops, is both the U.S.'s largest private sector employer and a consistent lightning rod for controversy.
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Elections have consequences Under President Obama and former Chairman Tom Wheeler, the FCC became a lightning rod for Congress, which tightened its legislative oversight of the agency.
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George Soros has become a lightning rod for the far right and for anti-Semites across the world -- and serves as dog-whistle shorthand for such groups.
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Goodell has his defenders, including team owners, but even they express dismay that his disciplinary decisions have become a lightning rod and sometimes distracted from the game.
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Franklin, in his famous kite experiment, was one of the first people to prove that lightning is electricity, which led to the invention of the lightning rod.
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Whereas Iran had long been a source of bipartisan agreement, the negotiations instantly made relations with the country into a lightning-rod issue between Republicans and Democrats.
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She says that what happens to her isn't really about her, but about the rest of us -- even though she's the lightning rod, the epicenter, the focus.
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Dems also don't want the policy, most closely associated with lightning-rod Ocasio-Cortez, to hurt the electoral chances of conservative Democrats elected in suburban, swing districts.
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It was 1997, the 'ABU' ('Anyone But United') trend was at its height, and Sheringham became a lightning rod for everything people disliked about Alex Ferguson's side.
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Mo Brooks, a Tea Party darling, and former Judge Roy Moore, a favorite of evangelicals and a lightning rod for controversy — are mounting credible campaigns against Strange.
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The so-called millionaire's tax has become a political lightning rod for the governor as his nascent administration navigates entrenched political power bases in the state Legislature.
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Despite being a political lightning rod for candidates from both parties, Facebook and the company's other services, like Instagram and Messenger, remain the favored platform for campaigns.
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Almost no one in America can use 5G — a faster wireless network that's slowly being built around the US — yet but it's already a political lightning rod.
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And Yale, suddenly a lightning rod for conservative and progressive critics alike, has repeatedly found itself forced to reaffirm its commitment to both ideological and racial diversity.
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A case like this can become a lightning rod for those who want to keep the states from using their authority to get involved in corporate disclosure.
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That payout has been a lightning rod for OneWest critics, even though the bank and its successors absorbed $30 billion in losses that the FDIC didn't cover.
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Since then, as he has become an increasing threat to the popular Bolt, Gatlin has been a lightning rod for public frustration with doping, particularly in Britain.
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" Or as Steve Duprey, a longtime fixture of the state G.O.P., put it, "Corey is the original lightning rod — some people love him, some people detest him.
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Hukou registrations can be hard to change and the system has been a lightning rod for controversy in a free-wheeling economy powered by mass internal migration.
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In the process, he's become a lightning rod for the left, with Democrats pointing to the EPA's agenda as proof of Trump's disdain for crucial government protections.
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The paper has been a lightning rod of criticism for some conservatives, particularly President Donald Trump, who frequently calls it the 'Bezos Washington Post' on social media.
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The liberal director said Democrats would not fall into despair after the shocking defeat Tuesday, but instead that Trump would prove a lightning rod for the left.
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A recent Wired profile of Facebook detailed how the platform's Trending Topics team became a lightning rod of criticism over the perception that it suppressed conservative views.
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Its lightning-rod recommendation is around beef and lamb, the two forms of livestock that require enormous amounts of land and water and produce heaps of methane.
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He's been a lightning rod ever since he entered the league, one who'd get almost as much attention for his goal celebrations as for the goals themselves.
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Flynn's son becomes a lightning rod for criticism The younger Flynn insisted afterward on Twitter that rumors about the pedophilia ring were true until they could be disproved.
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Kris Kobach, the current secretary of state of Kansas, is a lightning rod for critics who have accused him of extreme racism and having ties to white nationalists.
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That's a key question at the heart of a controversial case that's become the latest lightning rod in the debate over the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Even some Democrats who haven't been viewed as top-tier challengers (or as facing lightning-rod opponents who help them print money) have posted some huge totals. Rep.
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Kanye West, the rapper, fashion designer, and self-proclaimed genius, has in recent years become a lightning rod for controversy as he increasingly embraces a new role: disruptor.
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Between the lines: The numbers also indicate that 2020 Democrats lack a lightning rod media sensation who can drive the conversation like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (4.8 million interactions).
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His iPhone became a lightning rod for the ongoing debate over encryption when the FBI demanded that Apple assist the government in accessing data stored on the device.
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"One of the reasons I like using the FTC is they're hard-nosed regulators that know what they're doing and have not become a political lightning rod," Sen.
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" Why it matters: Per the Washington Post: Pence's planned appearance at the religiously affiliated school "has become a lightning rod in the intensifying debate over faith and politics.
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In an interview with Refinery29, McCrea and Boudinot spoke about their experience protesting outside a venue that has become a lightning rod for controversy in the comedy scene.
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The near-death experience makes Lorraine and Ed realize that Annabelle is really bad news, because she is basically a lightning rod for spirits both good and bad.
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Carter Page, brought on as a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign on March 2016, almost immediately became a lightning rod due to his close ties to Russia.
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The case has been a lightning rod for popular protest in Myanmar, be it over the many nurseries that lack licences or the hasty way police handled investigations.
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The proposal became a lightning rod, a symbol of the debate between whether the U.S. should use more oil from allies or reduce its use of fossil fuels.
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A pause in capital value growth was widely expected in 2016, with the referendum partly acting as a 'lightning rod' for the effects of wider global economic uncertainty.
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It was the latest step in his unusual journey to becoming a prominent critic of politics, the media and technology, as well as a lightning rod for criticism.
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This autumn Monument Lab undertook its fullest realization yet with a new urgency, as the topic of monuments became a lightning rod for controversy and scrutiny post-Charlottesville.
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And of course at the plate was Alex Bregman, the Astros lightning-rod star with the thunderous bat, hoping to win the game with one well-placed swing.
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Both teams were aided by players who scored two goals: for France, the 19-year-old lightning rod Kylian Mbappé; for Uruguay, the 31-year-old Edinson Cavani.
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Outside after the filming, Steffie Mizrahi, a dancer who leads one of Paris's ball houses, said Mr. Hache was the lightning-rod the scene had been waiting for.
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A worldwide sensation and instant lightning rod, the film was lauded by some for pushing the boundaries of sexual representation, and denounced by others as misogynistic or pornographic.
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But Mr. Sloan became a lightning rod, as employees complained about a toxic workplace culture and lawmakers and regulators fumed over a lack of reform at the bank.
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While the program is relatively small, accounting for about 85,000 visas per year, it has become a lightning rod in the debate about large companies outsourcing American jobs.
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Washington (CNN)A photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a Winnipeg-based doughnut shop has proved to be a lightning rod among pastry-enthusiastic onlookers online.
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"If anything, me being out here, taking this extreme action, I hope it acts as a lightning rod, telling people 'This is something you should watch,'" says Young.
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Around the same time, Valeant began to draw scrutiny for its unusual accounting practices, and it quickly became a political lightning rod for its aggressive drug pricing policy.
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In the US, where politics is now highly partisan, China has become an unlikely lightning rod that has united Republicans and Democrats -- an amazing feat in Trump's Washington.
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The deficit and debt became a lightning rod in the race in which O'Rourke, who had just left the El Paso city council, unseated eight-term incumbent Rep.
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"That doesn't mean the bank should keep its CEO," Seiberg wrote to clients, "as he will be a lightning rod for criticism if the Democrats retake the House."
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When we met in March, she had already become a lightning rod in the community, a rural town along the Redwood Highway wrestling with a severe addiction crisis.
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Comprised of members from popular acts Choir Boy and Sculpture Club, the smooth electronic pop of Human Leather is likely to stand as a lightning rod for discussion.
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Her journey in the movie, being thrust into the position of helping steal the plans for the Death Star, pales in comparison to her real-world role: lightning rod.
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Stir those phenomena together—dogs, a lightning rod, and receipts—and you've got the perfect recipe for a social-media debacle the likes of which are all too rare.
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One aspect of the GOP plan includes a border tax, a political lightning rod, which has been roundly criticized by companies that rely heavily on imports, such as retailers.
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National security adviser Michael Flynn abruptly resigned late Monday after acknowledging "he had become a lightning rod" over his dealings with Russia, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday.
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After having watched these meetings across the country, a few trends have popped up: the election never ended, President Donald Trump is a lightning rod for Republicans and more.
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In the city of nearly 100,000 some 70 miles northwest of Detroit, Earley became a lightning rod for residents who feared health problems because of lead-laden tap water.
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And the academy's first woman president, geophysicist Marcia McNutt, has become a lightning rod for dissent for those who believe the 155-year-old institution is moving too slowly.
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The lacerating image spread virally, and became a lightning rod in the charged U.S. political discussion of President Donald Trump's hard-line policies against asylum seekers and other migrants.
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From Coinage: The 5 Most Expensive Movies of All Time The livestream itself has been a lightning rod of controversy for the actor, who originally launched it on Jan.
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Britain's future trading and customs arrangements after Brexit have become a lightning rod for divisions that have not only plagued May's Conservative Party but also in the Labour Party.
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Slack's logo launch was a lightning rod for all of it: Twitter's outrage cycle, symbols of white supremacy, and, generally, people's inability to say nice things on the internet.
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At home in Georgia, though, he was a lightning rod for debate, steering a pro-Western course that culminated in a disastrous war with Russia and an electoral defeat.
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Judges hand out overly harsh sentences to send out a tough message, while the media acts as a lightning rod for the scapegoating of people who are already traumatized.
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So going out there on a limb in Wisconsin and saying, "We are going to help these people," it's kind of a lightning rod that gets conservatives pissed off.
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"Porn is a lightning rod for our curiosities as a culture and our anxieties around sexuality," says Shira Tarrant, gender and sexuality studies expert, author, and noted porn researcher.
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Pakistan's blasphemy law is a lightning rod for Islamists, especially since 2011 when the liberal governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was murdered by a bodyguard for questioning it.
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Ever since, Dash has been a lightning rod on Twitter, where users took joy in the fact that Dash will no longer have a prominent platform on cable news.
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This brief reprieve would set the stage for Nash's resurgence in the UK art scene as both an emblem of British sensibility and a lightning rod for international modernism.
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Last week, the President appeared to hint that he may pardon Arpaio -- an early Trump supporter and a lightning rod for more than a decade in the immigration battle.
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But the bulk of the measure's funding -- and one of the areas that has been a lightning rod in the debate -- goes toward SNAP, also known as food stamps.
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Although Washington is no longer eager to sign new trade deals — a lightning rod in the 2016 presidential race — it would be foolish not to seize on these possibilities.
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The Keystone XL pipeline project has been a lightning rod of controversy for a decade, hotly contested by environmentalists even though Canadian oil producers say it is desperately needed.
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The President did try to stir up a new, more profitable outcry on Wednesday night, returning to a theme that has been a reliable lightning rod in the past.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' personal ownership of The Washington Post makes him a "lightning rod" for attacks by President Donald Trump, internet analyst Michael Graham told CNBC on Thursday.
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The proposed 1,179-mile (1,897-km) pipeline linking Canada's oil sands to U.S. refineries has been a lightning rod of controversy since it was proposed nearly a decade ago.
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Pruitt has become a lightning rod for his history of climate change skepticism and his cozy relationship with the energy, agricultural and chemical companies he is responsible for regulating.
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But the bulk of the measure's funding — and one of the areas that has been a lightning rod in the debate — goes toward SNAP, also known as food stamps.
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"The billboard seems to be a lightning rod for the frustration of people with the Trump administration, and what it is doing to our country," Landman told the Sentinel.
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Beaverton, Oregon-based Nike imports nearly all its shoes, and fought for the Trans Pacific Partnership, a trade deal that became a lightning rod in the recent presidential campaign.
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Instead, for many voters the Pacific agreement was simply a lightning rod for their broader discontent with stagnant wages and job losses blamed on globalization and past trade agreements.
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Even if the two sides work out those issues, they will have to deal with the status of Northern Ireland, which could be a lightning rod on Capitol Hill.
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The project plays an exceedingly necessary role in Salem, since, Stevick says, the trials have become a lightning rod for different, often ahistorical, interpretations of what happened in 1693.
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"She raised the standard appreciably and restored a ray of hope among us, but understandably, she also became a lightning rod attracting the ire" of some teachers, he wrote.
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But Mr. Schiff has also become a lightning rod among Republicans who seethed at what they saw as his self-righteousness and accused him repeatedly of mischaracterizing the evidence.
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In Representative Adam B. Schiff, Speaker Pelosi has chosen a lead impeachment manager who knows the case against President Trump but has become a lightning rod for Republican critics.
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But stay, and you risk being the lightning rod for criticism about the speed of reconstruction, about water or electricity being connected -- being dragged into the local political mire.
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The violence this weekend was one of the bloodiest fights over the campaigns across the South to remove Confederate monuments, and the statue remains a lightning rod in Charlottesville.
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Pruitt has become a lightning rod due to his close relationship with fossil fuel interests, his record of downplaying humans' role in climate change and his controversial management style.
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Abortion and gay rights are not lightning rod political issues for conservatives as they are in the United States, so they tend not to be ideological tinder in Europe.
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Mr. Whitaker had proven to be a lightning rod for scrutiny since he took over the Justice Department when former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fired late last year.
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She came on "TMZ Live" to talk about the beating she took -- even a few liberals have sympathy for the conservative lightning rod in the aftermath of the show.
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Katie Fallow, a senior lawyer at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said many Americans often disagree with court rulings on "lightning rod" issues like flag burning.
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DeVos, who has been a lightning rod since the day of her confirmation hearing in January 2017, has been criticized by Democrats for a lack of experience in public education.
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And it's a damn shame that Depp's involvement continues to be a lightning rod for this series, especially since there's so much here for fans to be genuinely excited about.
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But it's hard to imagine Comey wanted to end up here—not just fired after making the most controversial call of his career, but turned into a political lightning rod.
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The policy became a political lightning rod in mid-June with disclosures that thousands of children were separated from their parents who were accused of crossing illegally into the country.
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But the company also became a lightning rod for critics of her father's policies, with one anti-Trump group last year urging shoppers to boycott stores selling Trump-branded goods.
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As the calm eye of the storm passed over, Perillat snapped a photo of the telescope's "line feed"—a 96-foot-long radio receiver that looks like a lightning rod.
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Golf has come under particular scrutiny as Xi continues his massive campaign against political corruption, long a lightning rod for public discontent amid a slowing economy and widening income gap.
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In the city of nearly 100,000 some 70 miles northwest of Detroit, Earley has become a lightning rod for residents who fear health problems because of lead-laden tap water.
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This time it's in Arizona, which just happens to be the home of two of the President's biggest GOP critics, as well as immigration lightning rod ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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Besides being a toy, Barbie has become a cultural lightning rod for depictions of women, and a derisive synonym for "fake," something that has pained Mattel's marketing department for years.
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Moulton said his call for fresh leadership "is nothing personal against Nancy Pelosi," arguing that Pelosi has become too much of a lightning rod for Republicans to unify their opposition.
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I figured that it would have somehow turned into a lightning rod for the culture wars by now; somehow they've sustained the joke and make it stranger at every turn.
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Tom Price were controversial, DeVos suddenly became a lightning rod for the base's rage after her stumbling confirmation hearing where she appeared to not know facts about federal education policy.
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From Benjamin Franklin and his lightning rod to Thomas Jefferson and his better moldboard plow, these were men who had been enamored with new technology as solutions to contemporary problems.
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We, too, could give the power to an elected official and keep a different person around to handle the hosting/ribbon cutting/Rose Garden tour-leading/gossip lightning-rod stuff.
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Obama's signature issue, a rallying cry for her supporters and a lightning rod for conservative critics who saw it as epitomizing the liberal "nanny state" of the Obama era. Mrs.
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The development could bring an abrupt end to the high-stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States.
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B.A.'s multibillion-dollar relationship with China became another lightning rod for conflict when an executive at the Houston Rockets tweeted his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
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Sebastian Gorka, an outspoken adviser to President Trump and lightning rod for controversy, has been forced out of his position at the White House, two administration officials said on Friday.
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The restaurant's owner, James Alefantis, is a former romantic partner of pro-Clinton political activist David Brock, a longtime lightning rod for the right, according to The New York Times.
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That makes the agency a lightning rod of criticism for both Republicans and Democrats when it says bills are going to be more costly to taxpayers than politicians had indicated.
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Uber has been a lightning rod because of its aggressive chief executive, Travis Kalanick, who has flouted rules and regulations to turn the company into a nearly $70 billion behemoth.
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Many Republicans are wary of moving forward with a bill that the president hasn't specifically said he will support, with immigration considered a political lightning rod with the party's base.
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At the same time, all this unfolds against the backdrop of a presidential campaign, as Kelly's tough questioning of then-candidate Donald Trump makes her a lightning rod of controversy.
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Immigration is a political lightning rod with the Republican base, and many GOP lawmakers are wary of opening themselves up to criticism by backing a bill that Trump doesn't support.
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"We all have to recognize that the Confederate monument is a flashpoint for demonstrations and interruptions on campus and we believe it will continue to be a lightning rod," Folt said.
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In another universe — or a decade ago — in which starring in a Woody Allen movie wasn't a lightning rod for controversy, Gomez's performance would probably been hailed as a turning point.
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Trump has long been a racial lightning rod, from his tepid response to the violence of white nationalists to his stark anti-immigrant rhetoric throughout his time in office and campaigning.
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They were a year and a half into the project when Peterson posted a viral YouTube video railing against political correctness, which quickly transformed him into a lightning rod for controversy.
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Clinton was already a political lightning rod before becoming secretary of state, but the strong possibility that she would become a candidate for president supercharged the Benghazi killings as politically explosive.
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Yet Mr. Adams, who swapped his West Belfast political stronghold to win a seat south of the border in County Louth in the last election, has again been a lightning rod.
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This highlights how the Kentucky race is set to become a lightning rod in 2020 — as the idea of "dealing with" McConnell was a question in the first 2020 presidential debate.
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Those numbers haven't changed much in the past two decades, and the Supreme Court's abortion-rights ruling in Roe v Wade, 45 years on, continues to serve as a lightning rod.
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Ocasio-Cortez, a lightning rod for criticism both from Republicans and moderate members of her own party, said on Twitter that the president's comments displayed the "hallmark language of white supremacists."
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The movie's become something of a cultural lightning rod for Marvel, thanks to its diverse casting, stellar writing, and willingness to engage with themes that aren't common among crowd-pleasing blockbusters.
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" The NY Post first published details from Fairstein's letter, in which she said she was leaving Safe Horizon's board to avoid becoming a "lightning rod to inflict damage on this organization.
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Use of the funds is restricted by federal law, and the account itself is a lightning rod for criticism, with both conservatives and liberals calling it an example of government overreach.
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Kobach is a conservative lightning rod who alienates even some fellow Republicans, but he is perhaps President Donald Trump&aposs closest political ally in Kansas and had Trump&aposs tweeted endorsement.
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The last of these issues has been a lightning rod of controversy for Trump, whose husband is perhaps one of the most public, and prolific, offenders of name-calling on Twitter.
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The trial of the men has proved to be a lightning rod in a part of India simmering with religious tensions, inflaming long held grievances within both Hindu and Muslim communities.
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Kaplan became a lightning rod for controversy inside and outside the company last month when he attended the Senate confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, his friend and former Bush administration colleague.
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But the Common Core quickly became a lightning rod, with opponents saying, among other things, that it stripped localities of some of their autonomy and its expectations were not age appropriate.
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The pound, which has been the lightning rod for opinion on the EU referendum throughout the six-month campaign, was up 21.14 percent at $20.8, hitting its highest level since December.
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Drug pricing has become a political lightning rod, drawing the attention of Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice, which on Wednesday filed price-fixing charges against two former pharmaceutical executives.
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The fact that mining industry groups are too often linked with coal also hurts the industry as a whole, given the polluting fuel acts as a lightning rod for green activists.
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As the years passed, it became clear that Serena had her father's capacity for being a news-making lightning rod while Venus was more like her mother, a stealth tennis parent.
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is finding itself in an unfamiliar position: as a lightning rod for the fierce debate over the Obama administration's role in the Syrian civil war.
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On Instagram, Gabbana's lightning rod platform of choice, the designer has sparred with Cyrus and called out haters from the commentariat, but has remained uncharacteristically silent on Raury's act of dissent.
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Kislyak had become such a lightning rod for criticism — Newsweek termed him "the most radioactive man in Washington" — that it became hard for him to work effectively with the Trump administration.
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Khatami has long been a lightning rod of criticism for hardliners who accuse him of fomenting unrest in the protests that followed the disputed election of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.
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"Weiner is such a tragicomic figure, and such a lightning rod for news coverage, that he could insulate Clinton from some of the fallout she might have suffered otherwise," Silver wrote.
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He is still singled out, consistently, for criticism whenever United fails to live up to expectations, a lightning rod for the many and varied complaints of many and varied former players.
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Mr. Bolton is a lightning rod in Pyongyang because of his proposal that North Korea disarm voluntarily as Libya did in 2003 — a concession that ended badly, when Libya's leader, Col.
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Or is it an attempt to break up a deal that has become a lightning rod for concerns about a rapidly consolidating media industry, perhaps rooted in the administration's populist tendencies?
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There were even accusations that George Soros, the liberal billionaire and activist who has become a lightning rod for conservatives around the world, was funding attempts to interfere in the elections.
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Ambassador Harry Harris&apos mustache has become a lightning rod for tensions between the US and South Korea as they debate the cost of hosting US troops on the Korean Peninsula.
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The Confederate statues of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the lightning rod for the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, were shrouded until a judge ordered the tarps removed earlier this year.
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A strong Trump supporter with a reputation for sometimes being abrasive, Grenell has been a lightning rod for controversy during his post in Germany due to his unorthodox style of diplomacy.
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Omar, however, has become a lightning rod within the Democratic caucus, and a number of her colleagues were privately concerned about her taking on a high-profile role on the resolution.
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Wells Fargo became a lightning rod for criticism when in September 2016 it admitted that workers opened millions of fake bank and credit card accounts to meet wildly unrealistic sales goals.
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The case, which had received extensive coverage from the local news media and Fox News, has become a lightning rod in the debate over undocumented immigrants and so-called sanctuary cities.
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The football player has become a lightning rod for controversy after kneeling, instead of standing, for the National Anthem during the 2016 season to protest police brutality against people of color.
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A case could be made that over-coverage of Ocasio-Cortez has disrupted her fledgling legislative career, making her a focal point and lightning rod too soon for her own good.
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I would hope the governor would find 'common ground' with the president and stop grandstanding as a lightning-rod liberal in order to position himself for his run at the presidency.
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Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady on CNBC stood by the GOP's border tax on imports, which has been a lightning rod in the debate over how to reform U.S. corporate taxes.
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" But during periods of intense stress—think rapid social change or famines—they can act as a lightning rod for rage, leading to what Allen and some other experts call " witch-cleansings.
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McLaughlin is a particular lightning rod within the #MeToo movement in science because she has become its public face amid concerns that her combative approach may sometimes do more harm than good.
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With a peak speed of 73 miles per hour, Lightning Rod — a 1950s Hot Rod-inspired ride at Dolly Parton's amusement park in the Smoky Mountains — is the world's fastest wooden coaster.
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"In terms of it becoming a bit of a pariah, and this thing that is kind of a lightning rod for rage, I'm disappointed that's the way it has gone," Jenkins says.
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By allowing Zoey to explore such a lightning rod of a term, fans get the same insights without any of the plausibly anxiety-inducing conversations that could happen in the real-world.
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But the combination of anonymous peer-to-peer currency creation joined with a lightning rod like Facebook created an unholy union that just about everyone could find a reason not to like.
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Despite their reputation as the happiest places on earth, Disney theme parks have recently become a lightning rod for profoundly unhappy people airing their opinions on what millennials can and cannot do.
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" When asked if lightning-rod Housewife Kelly Dodd's presence on RHOC would ever deter her from staying on the show, Beador replied emphatically, "Let's make it clear — I'm not afraid of anybody.
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The project has been a lightning rod of controversy since it was proposed a decade ago, with environmentalists making it a symbol of their broader fight against fossil fuels and global warming.
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So far, doesn't seem like this will be the lightning rod it was when it shut down 10 days ago -- people are much more laid back, even while protesting, in New Mexico.
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The RFS has long been a lightning rod of conflict between the corn lobby, which supports the policy as an engine for demand, and refiners who say it costs them a fortune.
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Green is seen as one of the most important bulwarks to Google's advertising dominance — but as Lauren reported, The Trade Desk's growing size is making it a lightning rod for criticism itself.
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So far, bills introduced in the Senate have broken down along party lines, underscoring the difficulty of getting 60 votes on the lightning rod political issue months before the November midterm election.
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Last year, the British medical journal, The Lancet, criticized Canada's Medicare for its long wait times, which it said could become a "lightning rod issue" that could undermine support for the program.
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Compared in his lifetime to Conrad, Dickens and Tolstoy, he was also a lightning rod for criticism, particularly by those who read his portrayals of third-world disarray as apologies for colonialism.
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Yet at home in Sierra Leone, where Johansen has been a lightning rod for controversy since even before she became federation president, her life in soccer has been an entirely different experience.
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In just 11 weeks in office, Mr. Barr has become a lightning rod for criticism for minimizing the findings of Mr. Mueller's report and publicly embracing the president's explanations of his actions.
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The matter has also become a lightning rod issue in the election campaign to replace U.S. President Barack Obama, who wants Congress to ratify TPP before he leaves office on Jan. 20.
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Cameron is someone who appreciates and enjoys being a lightning rod or a divining rod for brilliance, and Joe is someone who is always looking for that kind of inspiration in himself.
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He's going to be a lightning rod for the sexist and misogynistic voter, whether they're driven by implicit biases or explicit beliefs that a woman can't be sufficiently competent to be president.
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Verma, a close ally of Vice President Mike Pence, has become a lightning rod for pushing work requirements in Medicaid and spearheading the Trump administration's efforts to unilaterally unwind pieces of Obamacare.
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The case has become a lightning rod in South Korea, where some are arguing that the government is doing little for the thousands who have fled the repressive regime in North Korea.
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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — Across Western Europe and the United States, immigrants from poorer countries, whether plumbers from Poland or farmhands from Mexico, have become a lightning rod for economic anxieties over cheap labor.
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The professional football player has become a lightning rod for controversy after kneeling, instead of standing, for the national anthem during the 2016 season to protest police brutality against people of color.
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The consumer agency, conceived and set up by Elizabeth Warren, now a Democratic senator and 2020 presidential contender, immediately became a lightning rod for attacks by Republicans, who considered it anti-business.
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But a separate Democratic plan to request Trump's tax returns from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin under federal law in coming months is fast becoming a political lightning rod for Democrats and Republicans.
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"Tommy Robinson … has acted as a lightning rod for an international coterie of far-right, anti-Muslim activists and extremists," said Nick Ryan, spokesman for British anti-racism group Hope not Hate.
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The former NFL quarterback and eternal culture war lightning rod went 0-3 with three groundouts and a nearly nice catch in his Arizona Fall League debut with the Scottsdale Scorpions on Tuesday.
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They&aposre going to rigged it against her because the establishment can&apost afford to have some sort of lightning rod that&aposs going to divide the party and go against Wall Street.
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Vin Ryan, founder of the venture-capital firm Schooner Capital and a supporter of Ms. Warren, said he viewed Mr. Sanders as "a lightning rod" whom Republicans would attack nonstop as a socialist.
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In other words, both Gard's and Evans's cases are a lightning rod for existing UK anxieties about the National Health Service and the efficacy of socialized medicine, and of state intervention more generally.
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A sure lightning rod for anyone who's ever felt pushed around by those who should have lifted you up, Pinky is a deliciously conflicted look at the difficult task of becoming an adult.
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All in all, this makes for more a lightning rod than male director Gary Marshall (Beaches, The Princess Diaries) probably originally expected of a movie that spends so much time on Rodeo Drive.
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This year's Oscars feel like a lightning rod in terms of what winners are going to say in regards to how the industry is going to change in the face of the reckoning.
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The experimental architect Zaha Hadid's stadium design for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics has been a lightning rod nearly from the moment the city was awarded the Games more than two years ago.
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But as a lightning rod for attention, the ROG Phone has also reignited the conversation around the Android gaming market and what it will take for a hardware manufacturer to capitalize on it.
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Cessario's views on the ordeal proved no less controversial in 2018, as his piece on the Mortara case became a lightning rod for wider Catholic questions about the church's relationship to modern liberalism.
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Uber is not the only company to organize ride-booking services in France, but it has become one of the most popular and has become a lightning rod for opposition to such services.
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Nunes, currently chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, became a political lightning rod after authoring the once-secret memo alleging government surveillance abuses by the FBI and Justice Department during the 2016 election.
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Dealing with a deluge of crises and in the midst of what's been deemed a "summer of hell," the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has been a lightning rod of public ire of late.
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From the trailer for season 3, it's clear there's going to be some tension and that you might be even more of a lightning rod than ever before — which is saying a lot!
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The moves bring back the long-term lightning rod for environmentalists and the oil industry, two months after President Obama blocked it, arguing that it would threaten the United States' international climate stance.
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The rebuff from the National Archives comes as the fight over work from Kavanaugh's time in the George W. Bush White House has emerged as a lightning rod in the Supreme Court fight.
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Facebook, a lightning rod on Capitol Hill for its advertising policies and data management practices, is up 47% this year despite the regulator scrutiny, well above the S&P 500's 22% gain.
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President Trump's promise to tear up NAFTA during the last presidential campaign was just the latest use of NAFTA as a lightning rod for disaffection with the economic circumstances faced by many Americans.
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Stewart has been a lightning rod for controversy during his political career — defending Confederate statutes as part of state history, even though he is a Minnesota native, and viciously attacking his political foes.
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Those endorsements could beget other endorsements as lawmakers lobby on Trump's behalf to their colleagues or feel safe to announce their support for a candidate who has been a lightning rod for controversy.
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But he has also become a lightning rod over failed investments like those in the retailer J. C. Penney and his long fight, thus far unsuccessful, to bring down the supplements maker Herbalife.
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Republican invitees from the Galen Institute and the Mercatus Institute, which authored a lightning-rod analysis of Medicare-for-all last year, were also on the line-up as it was first announced.
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As many of them have been traced back to the mysterious Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the organization has become a lightning rod for the public's wrath and a ready outlet for longstanding prejudice.
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But I also don't think it's fair that Chelsea should suddenly become a lightning rod for this sentiment, when no one bats an eyelid at say, Joe Kennedy III holding office in [Massachusetts].
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Mr. King became a lightning rod — particularly for the teachers union — while serving as New York State's education commissioner, but he has never wavered in his commitment to higher standards for all children.
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Nortin, the substitute teacher, showed up wearing an t-shirt emblazoned with AOC, the acronym for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive lightning rod who has challenged the party's Old Guard and supports Sanders.
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It isn't easy to be a lightning rod, I thought on the way out, as publicists with faces frozen in rictus grins did their best to usher showgoers past another anti-fur demonstration.
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One included the quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who became a lightning rod for conservative criticism when he protested police violence against black Americans by kneeling during the national anthem before National Football League games.
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Why it matters: For a decade, net neutrality rules, which aim to prevent owners of internet networks from favoring some content and traffic, have been a lightning rod for conflict over internet governance.
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"Trade is becoming the lightning rod for every problem that every country has on earth", but we must stop viewing it in isolation, the executive director of the International Trade Center has urged.
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Steele was a longtime FBI informant whose Democratic-funded research into Trump ties to Russia was compiled into a dossier that has become a partisan lightning rod since its publication in January 2017.
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The diocese hired a private detective agency that developed a detailed account of an encounter that was captured on video and quickly became a lightning rod for political and racial tensions in America.
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The McCarrick case in particular — which, in a departure from many other abuse cases, predominanty involved allegations of sexual harassment of adults — has been a particular lightning rod for this kind of discourse.
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The company has become a lightning rod for its in-your-face advertising and marketing critical of commercial food operations and for its decision to end the use of ingredients from genetically engineered sources.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy has become a lightning rod for criticism in parts of the Republican Party and the fossil fuels industry unhappy about the Obama administration's energy and climate policies.
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That turned out to be a good investment, but Thiel turned into a lightning rod later, especially when he helped fund Donald Trump's presidential campaign and became a quiet advisor to the Trump administration.
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Moving from town to town, the impoverished and bedraggled travelers became a lightning rod for U.S.-Mexico relations after Trump launched a succession of tweets in early April, telling Mexican authorities to stop them.
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The founder and publisher of Wikileaks is a controversial figure, and a series of leaked private chats published by The Intercept demonstrate that his lightning-rod persona is not just for the public's benefit.
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Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's gold medal-winning performance for New Zealand in women's events at the Pacific Games in Samoa last month became a lightning rod for criticism of transgender policy in the region.
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It seems unnecessary for the producers to play the role of social provocateur, putting nonblack women in blackface or using their one trans contestant as a lightning rod for other women to be transphobic.
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His decision to vote for an independence party to protest Spain's crackdown on the region, and not because he agreed with the results of the Catalan referendum, became a lightning rod on social media.
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Washington (CNN)Even Donald Trump was able to predict more than a decade ago that he'd be a lightning rod for controversy were he to ever run for president, according to newly resurfaced video.
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He also says Trump has become such a lightning rod, it costs a fortune to maintain the star because dogs have crapped on it, humans have peed on it and others have defaced it.
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Hillary Clinton may have been a special kind of lightning rod, but the elements that brought her down are still bristling in our atmosphere, ready to strike again, and we need to face them.
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The proposed extension to the existing Keystone pipeline has been a lightning rod in a growing movement among environmentalists to mitigate the effects of global warming by preventing new energy infrastructure from being built.
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That Clinton remains the tallest lightning rod of right-wing politics sends many on the left into fits, but the Democrats could use it to their advantage—if Clinton is willing to play along.
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But Mr. Wilson has emerged as a lightning rod partly because he is one of a cadre of superintendents who have been trained in an academy financed by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
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Often at the fore of this battle, Ice-T served as a proverbial lightning rod for hip-hop, emerging as one of its most candid figures well before explicit content became a rap norm.
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As the N.F.L. and social media have grown, the league has become a lightning rod for a host of social issues, including bullying and domestic violence, that stretch its capacity to control the narrative.
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The King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), which was opened in 2012, has long been a lightning rod in Austria for criticism of Saudi Arabia's human rights record.
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But he became a lightning rod for deep anger, expressed by influential Muslim clerics and at mass protests, over massacres in the Mopti region, a mixed ethnic area in the center of the country.
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The Association of Zoos and Aquariums said it voted to phase out the bullhook, a type of baton used to control elephants in captivity and a lightning rod for criticism from animal rights advocates.
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In a year when the House Democratic leader, Representative Nancy Pelosi, remains a lightning rod and some moderate Democratic candidates are running away from her, Mr. Mulvaney gamed out the potential benefits for Republicans.
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The bills are being used as an election year "scare tactic, lightning rod issue" to bring conservatives and swing voters out, said Taylor Brown, an attorney with Lambda Legal, an LGBT civil rights group.
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Ohio has become a lightning rod in the 2020 presidential election after GM announced in November 2018 its plan to close a car manufacturing plant in Lordstown, drawing condemnation from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Though this is a very complex, "lightning rod" issue, I believe there are four broad categories of people that help explain how we all, including my CEO peers, think about the president's first year.
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Hours later, Trump named Mulvaney acting director of the consumer bureau, an agency that has become a lightning rod for criticism from Republicans and business executives, who consider it too aggressive in its enforcement.
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Since she joined The Times in 2015, Maggie Haberman has been a driving force behind much of its award-winning political coverage and a lightning rod for grievances from both sides of the aisle.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's director can be fired by the president only for cause, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday, restoring security to a job that has become a political lightning rod.
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" 26-year-old Swift took a deep breath and replied, "You're gonna date just like a normal 20-something should be allowed to, but you're going to be a national lightning rod for slut shaming.
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Kamala Harris and Joe Biden aren't done sorting out the fallout from her lightning rod moment at last week's Democratic debate, when the senator criticized the former vice president for his record on school busing.
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Each summer from 1977 through 1986, in an ongoing event titled Thunder, The Play used logs to build a large pyramid structure topped with a copper lightning rod, and then waited for lightning to strike.
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Since her return she has become a lightning rod for the way behind-the-scenes production antics and on-camera performances increasingly feed into one another, as real-life drama and the show's drama intersect.
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Not as a pop star or Katy Perry's nemesis (happy album release day, Katy!) or a lightning rod for controversy — but as Taylor Swift the economist, the moralist, and the vague symbol for artists' rights.
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The pound, which has been the lightning rod for opinion on the EU referendum throughout the six-month campaign, was up 20.5 percent at $21.135 as traders cut their bets on volatility after the vote.
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But so do crucifixes and Christian figurines—and it is Mr Cornelis's religion, more than anything else, that has made him the latest lightning rod for the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), an Islamist vigilante group.
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While Colin Kaepernick has become a lightning rod this season for his kneeling protests of the national anthem before NFL games, West has long been making a similar — albeit much subtler statement — before NBA games.
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The memo has become a lightning rod in a partisan fight over investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion by Trump's campaign, which Russia and Trump have both denied.
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This one colorful drink was a lightning rod for emotions, but now that we're two weeks out from it being taken off the Starbucks menu, most people have managed to move past all of that.
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Sunday's "60 Minutes" piece described Gillibrand as a "lightning rod" for criticizing Clinton over his White House sex scandal and for leading the charge to push Franken out of Congress following multiple sexual harassment allegations.
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Immigration has emerged as a political lightning rod in recent years, but senators argued that if members as politically divergent as Cruz and Feinstein could strike a deal, that would likely guarantee it could pass.
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With Hubbard free to compete at next year's Tokyo Olympics, the 41-year-old has become a lightning rod for criticism of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s guidelines for the inclusion of transgender athletes.
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Still, it was a remarkable reversal for Mr. Clinton, who occupies a singular role in his wife's campaign as a spouse and a popular former president who can sometimes make himself into a lightning rod.
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Whatever the truth, Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui (pronounced CHOW-kee) has emerged as the central protagonist in what is being billed here as the "Vatileaks 2" trial, and become a lightning rod of intrigue and criticism.
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"The history of health reform is that it works very well on the level of a bumper sticker but as soon as you start filling in the details, it becomes a lightning rod," Levitt said.
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The statue has been a lightning rod for protests by white nationalists, who consider Confederate leaders as heroes, and opponents, who consider the leaders racists for fighting to maintain slavery and want the statues removed.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Protesters blocked a portion of Peru's main coastal highway on Monday in the start of a new challenge to a billion-dollar copper mining project that has been a lightning rod for conflict.
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The case became a lightning rod for Trump and others in the push to halt illegal immigration and penalize so-called sanctuary cities, such as San Francisco, which limit their assistance to federal immigration authorities.
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The litigation in the United States has only muddied the waters further, with evidence emerging that Monsanto ghostwrote both journalism and academic work, eroding trust in a company that had long been a lightning rod.
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The lightning rod of a player, who has had plenty of success in Boston over the course of his career, tied the game with a single to left off Chris Sale that brought in Turner.
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This is especially true when you are forced to rely upon government assistance programs that are a lightning rod of controversy, attracting lots of heated opinions, along with plenty of judgment, shaming and personal attacks.
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The soft-spoken New Hampshire judge never became a lightning rod except to those on the right who, while thrilling to Justice Thomas's hard-edge originalism, were sorely vexed by Justice Souter's modestly progressive jurisprudence.
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Watch: Our South Asia bureau chief visited one of India's holiest temples to see how the country's controversial Supreme Court ruling over the right of women to enter that temple became a political lightning rod.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old democratic socialist from New York who scored a shocking primary victory over Representative Joseph Crowley in June, has since become a lightning rod for attacks from conservative circles.
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During the last election cycle, Team Trump members just may have been chowing down on corn tortillas when they decided that NAFTA should become the lightning rod for job loss and economic malaise in America.
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Sondland, a wealthy hotel magnate who became Trump's envoy to Europe after donating $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee, has become a lightning rod for controversy due to his central role in the Ukraine affair.
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In December, Google announced a major expansion that could double its New York work force to 14,000 over the next decade, without the rich government incentives that proved a lightning rod for the Amazon deal.
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It also demonstrated, yet again, Mr. Trump's penchant for barging into the most sensitive political debates of other countries — often turning himself into a lightning rod, which poses challenges for his allies and adversaries alike.
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They don't really have a coherent critique of her leadership or a different direction in mind; they just don't want her to be a national lightning rod when a more effective messenger could represent them.
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But Donald Trump, whose aggressively divisive and racist rhetoric has been a lightning rod since he kicked his campaign off by saying Mexico was purposely sending rapists across the border, is not a generic Republican.
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The March itself has been a lightning rod for various critiques from all sides, with some calling out the lack of police interventions at the marches as a symbol of privilege reserved for white women.
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Blankenship is the lightning rod of the race: Washington Republicans are trying to stop him, worried his nomination would put a gettable seat out of reach, while Washington Democrats seem to be propping him up.
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Then there was the lightning rod announcement of former Breitbart chief executive Steve Bannon as a top White House adviser -- which sent shockwaves through activist groups who view the Breitbart site as racist and anti-Semitic.
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Kanye West drops new album, says he's $53 million in debt Since then the rapper, designer and human lightning rod has been in the headlines often, sometimes for his Twitter rants and sometimes for his art.
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It's a conversation about who owns women's bodies, and how survivors of assault should not be afraid to come forward and be heard — including Taylor Swift, who is a lightning rod for negative comments and judgment.
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IWAKUNI, Japan (Reuters) - The U.S. military's MV-22 Osprey aircraft has been a lightning rod for opposition to U.S. bases in Japan since 0003 of them were deployed on the southern island of Okinawa in 2014.
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The symposium, held on Tuesday, assembled some big names: San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, gun violence and public health expert Stephen Teret, and Silicon Valley angel investor/lightning rod Ron Conway were all in attendance.
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The sale of Kidman, which runs cattle and pastoral activities on tracts of land the size of South Korea, has been a lightning rod for concerns about the sale of Australian agriculture assets to foreign investors.
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FBI official Peter Strzok, who played a lead role in both the Russian meddling and Hillary Clinton email probes but became a political lightning rod after the revelation of anti-Trump text messages, has been fired.
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"We believe this event will become a lightning rod ... (and) transformational for the sport as kids who are now 8-, 10-, 12-years-old can all dream of potentially playing for a national team," Cordeiro said.
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That makes it awfully difficult for the show to become anything other than a Donald Trump-shaped lightning rod, which is probably what he intended by grafting himself onto the biggest entertainment story of the week.
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It's not a surprise that the CBO analysis of the lightning-rod AHCA has caused a storm of controversy, and its widely publicized predictions on changes to the number of uninsured are not above fair critique.
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Tax avoidance has become a lightning rod as the presidential campaign has taken on a strong populist cast, and leading Republicans and Democrats in Congress have demanded that companies be forced to pay their fair share.
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More specifically, this lacerating comedy from the Lightning Rod Special troupe in Philadelphia is about finding ways to speak to one another about an unspeakable American institution a century and a half after its official end.
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The mine has become a lightning rod for voters ahead of next month's general election, dividing the country as well as Australia's major political parties - the conservative Liberal-National coalition government and the opposition Labor Party.
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The DJ had long served as a lightning rod for his outspoken political views and veganism, even suffering a mock beating in Eminem's 2002 video for "Without Me" after he spoke out against the rapper's homophobia.
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Often cast as the European counterpart to Benjamin Franklin because the two men simultaneously and independently invented the lightning rod, Diviš became fascinated with electricity while working as a theologian in a Moravian parish of Přímětice.
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Mr. Khashoggi's killing inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has become a lightning rod for Western criticism of Saudi Arabia, its human rights record and the leadership of Prince Mohammed, the kingdom's day-to-day ruler.
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Medvedev, head of the government since 2012, has been a lightning rod for Russians' frustrations overseeing an economy buffeted by a 2014-16 downturn, Western sanctions and swings in the price of oil, Russia's life blood.
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Chung Yoo-ra became a lightning rod for anger over social injustice after revelations that her mother, Choi Soon-sil, used her influence with Ms. Park to promote Ms. Chung's career and support her luxurious lifestyle.
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Although the opinion was decided more than 40 years ago, it remains a lightning rod in modern confirmation hearings as senators on each side of the issue have tried to press nominees to tip their hands.
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Mr. Puzder, chief executive of the company that franchises Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast-food restaurants, has been a lightning rod as an outspoken foe of the Obama administration's overtime regulation and the Affordable Care Act.
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The effort became a political lightning rod, with the left opposing a new generation of standardized tests tied to the Core, and the right seeing the effort as an unwelcome intrusion into local control of schools.
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She has been heavily involved in social protests since her youth and has been a lightning rod for criticism for just as long — especially for her activities during the Vietnam War, for which she later apologized.
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Eva Moskowitz, the founder of the Success Academy charter school network in New York City, and herself a lightning rod for using confrontational political tactics, is one nonprofit charter leader who has vocally supported Ms. DeVos.
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"She wasn't accustomed to this, and she wasn't used to the criticism, and she became a lightning rod early on in the presidential race," said David Axelrod, one of Mr. Obama's closest advisers at the time.
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But in the Trump administration, the deadlines have become a lightning rod for questions about Trump's stance on a deal he once called "the worst deal ever negotiated," as well as on his larger Iran strategy.
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The year prior, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association saluted Gina Rodriguez — now a pop cultural lightning rod, then an up-and-coming television darling — for her heart-swelling work in the criminally underrated Jane the Virgin.
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RT's connection to the Russian government (the network was formerly known as Russia Today and is still financed by the Kremlin) has made it a lightning rod in the debate over disinformation campaigns and Donald Trump's election.
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The move comes after the event, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars, last year became a lightning rod for questions about Taiwanese independence, sparking a debate between Taiwanese and mainland stars as well as netizens.
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Andrea Bargnani seemed to be a lightning rod for criticism during his tenure in Toronto but, frankly, was a productive player, just maybe not to the level of expectations that come with being a first overall pick.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the U.S. Senate would vote in coming weeks on the "Green New Deal," an ambitious Democratic environmental proposal that has become a lightning rod for Republican criticism.
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When deciding where to place a lightning rod atop a building, engineers typically use models and theories based on lab observations of long electrical discharges, or from observations of lightning rods on top of very tall structures.
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LIMA, July 15 (Reuters) - Protesters blocked a portion of Peru's main coastal highway on Monday in the start of a new challenge to a billion-dollar copper mining project that has been a lightning rod for conflict.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, a lightning rod for outrage over soaring U.S. prescription drug prices, pleaded not guilty on Monday to an additional criminal charge that federal prosecutors filed against him last week.
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But they became a lightning rod for criticism following rumors that private supermarkets would no longer receive staple goods because these were to be distributed via CLAPs, leading to a protest near the presidential palace in Caracas.
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But while Kelly said his long experience in the Pentagon helped him understand how Washington works in general, he says he was not prepared to become the political lightning rod that his new position has made him.
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In the super-featherweight matchup between American "Lightning" Rod Salka and Mexican boxer Francisco "El Bandido" Vargas, Salka decided to show up wearing some pret-ty Trumpian "America 1st" trunks with a brick wall pattern on them.
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Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the Idaho sexual assault should be fully investigated but added the case had become a lightning rod for anti-Muslim, and anti-refugee sentiments.
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Current PBSC member China's fearsome anti-corruption czar is long considered one of Xi's most trusted lieutenants, responsible for cracking down on graft in the party -- an issue that has become a lightning rod for public discontent.
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Prosecutors Consider More Charges Against Shkreli | Martin Shkreli, the former chief of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who became a lightning rod for outrage over soaring prescription drug prices, may face additional charges of securities fraud, a federal prosecutor said.REUTERS
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Mr. Kaine was one of 13 Senate Democrats to vote in support of giving President Obama "fast track" authority on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 12-nation pact that has become a lightning rod this election year.
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The three women have gone on to build Black Lives Matter into one of the most prominent activist organizations in the world, a group that has both inspired millions and become a lightning rod for Trumpian rage.
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The party has served as a lightning rod for public anger over a government move last year to hike the retirement age, a deeply unpopular reform that compounded growing dismay over five years of falling real incomes.
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He has been such a lightning rod that he couldn't get confirmed as United Nations ambassador in 2005, so President George W. Bush gave him a recess appointment, and he stayed in the job about a year.
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When you saw "The Hunt" become a political lightning rod, and being characterized in ways that didn't fit with what you thought was its message, did you want to tell people that they were prejudging it unfairly?
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Lightning Rod Special is the Philadelphia-based company that gave us "Underground Railroad Game," a show that used a middle-school classroom format to dive deep, really deep, into the emotional and sexual dynamics of interracial relationships.
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His case became a lightning rod in Chile for fury directed at police over allegations of human rights abuses during months of demonstrations over social inequality that have left at least 31 people dead and 30,000 injured.
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And there's plenty more in store: If the Senate calls up a bill to repeal Obamacare, controversy over Planned Parenthood funding will come to the fore — ensuring the 2018 campaign won't lack for that perennial lightning rod.
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According to Variety, the change is a conscious effort to distance the brands from Murdoch&aposs legacy, which is also tied up with the Fox News network, often a lightning rod for controversy, and unpopular in Hollywood.
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Those who have remained in the office of roughly 1,500 people continue to do their work, Dr. Kavlock said, but are not going out of their way to promote findings on lightning-rod topics like climate change.
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The Catholic church, an institution that enjoys broad credibility in Congo, has emerged as a lightning rod for opposition to Kabila's efforts to stay in power with no mandate, while his political opposition remains weak and fragmented.
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The aircraft has become a lightning rod for opposition to the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, with local groups seeking the closure of American bases saying it is prone to crash and poses a danger to residents.
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Date: January 8, 2012What made the moment: Tim Tebow was a lightning rod during his short-lived tenure in the NFL, with experts doubting the Heisman-winning man of faith could cut it as a professional quarterback.
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The move comes after the annual event, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars, last year became a lightning rod for questions about Taiwanese independence, sparking a debate between Taiwanese and mainland stars as well as netizens.
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The review means changes are likely to the program, which has become a lightning rod of controversy between the rival oil and corn industries since the Environmental Protection Agency vastly increased the number of waivers for last year.
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Each question, each conversation stacks into a kind of janky lightning rod — one that could collapse at any moment, but is managing to protect that little girl who watched a storm rage in her kitchen from direct strikes.
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In his last tweet, he lashed out at the NFL for its treatment of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has become a lightning rod after protesting police brutality by sitting during the national anthem before games.
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He finished third with less than 8 percent of the vote, and his party — which some observers allege has been used by the Kremlin as a lightning rod for anti-Putin feelings — has failed to make an impression.
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The blaze in a social housing block close to one of Britain's richest neighborhoods has become a lightning rod for anger at May's government with opponents blaming public spending cuts for the fire having such a devastating effect.
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This put me inside, on a sweltering summer day, avoiding daily lightning storms, a not insignificant risk for National Park rangers when you work outside on the dock, adjacent to the largest copper lightning rod in the world.
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Joaquin Castro of Texas became a lightning rod for Republican criticism this week after he tweeted out a list of the names and employers of 44 top donors from the San Antonio area to President Donald Trump's campaign.
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" That brief moment has become a lightning rod for controversy after the White House announced last night it was suspending Jim Acosta's press pass for "placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job.
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For a community perpetually disenchanted by the political "Establishment"—a group for which Hillary Clinton is seen as the poster girl—Sanders's surprisingly successful presidential run has become a sort of lightning rod for its hopes and aspirations.
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Neither has set off a media feeding frenzy like previous nominees such as Geraldine A. Ferraro, the first woman on a major party ticket, in 1984 or Sarah Palin, who became a lightning rod for critics in 2008.
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If that approach works, it would probably embolden other moderate Democrats to go their own way in deep-red areas, and perhaps encourage candidates across the board to distance themselves from Ms. Pelosi as a partisan lightning rod.
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CNBC offers unprecedented access inside Juul Labs, a company whose innovative product design and marketing have made it the industry leader as well as a lightning rod for criticism that vaping companies are luring teenagers into nicotine addiction.
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It isn't easy to be a lightning rod, I reflected on the way out, as publicists with their faces frozen in rictus grins did their best to usher showgoers past one of the several aggressive anti-fur demonstrations.
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Now, as companies begin to market these services more aggressively for uses like policing and vetting job candidates, they have emerged as a lightning rod in the debate about whether and how Congress should regulate powerful emerging technologies.
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Companies and activists have been closely watching Tia Maria as a sign of President Martin Vizcarra's approach to Peru's mining sector, a key driver of economic growth but also a lightning rod for conflict in far-flung provinces.
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Starr became a lightning rod of sorts during his tenure as independent counsel, but settled into a much quieter academic life for several years as dean of Pepperdine University's law school and later as president of Baylor University.
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The $4.7 trillion budget proposal is dead on arrival in Congress, but it will stand as a statement of the President's priorities -- for cutting and spending alike -- and has already quickly become a lightning rod for Democratic criticism.
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, announced in 2011, was designed to generate more than 6,000 megawatts in a region that struggles to produce enough energy, but has proved a lightning rod for tensions in both Ethiopia and Egypt.
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In a spasm of marketing genius, he created the MAGA cap, knowing full well that it would be a political lightning rod, just like his tweets, and be widely ridiculed and attacked by the political and cultural elite.
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But the prime minister, analysts said, is in a coalition government with right-wing partners whom he cannot afford to antagonize on the status of Jerusalem, an issue that has long been a lightning rod in Israeli politics.
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The Senate narrowly confirmed Kathy Kraninger for a five-year term as the head of the CFPB, putting her in charge of an Obama-era agency that became a lightning rod for Republican attacks over its aggressive enforcement.
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"The Appointment," a musical satire from the Philadelphia company Lightning Rod Special, juxtaposed an ensemble of puckishly adorable singing fetuses with the calm realism of scenes at a clinic, where patients seeking abortions are given legally mandated misinformation.
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This time around the lightning rod is Kim Kardashian West's latest venture, announced on Tuesday: a line of "solutionwear," itself a creative take on the more typical "shapewear," which used to be called girdles, and before that corsets.
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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway attempted to portray the move as deliberative and consensual, telling NBC's Matt Lauer that Flynn had decided to resign on Monday evening because he "knew he'd become a lightning rod" for the administration.
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America's military strategy in Yemen has become a political lightning rod issue after the late January raid against AQAP, authorized by President Donald Trump, resulted in the death of one of the commandos, U.S. Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens.
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Moser, who espouses a Bernie Sanders-esque view of politics, became a national lightning rod when the House Democratic campaign arm posted opposition research on her shortly before the primary, showing how Republicans could attack her in the general.
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And you can definitely see Democrats already speaking about that, Republicans already sort of cheering about what's going to be possible, so it will be fraught and I think you're right to identify that topic as the lightning rod.
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On the other hand, Epic is suing a 14-year-old over a YouTube dispute, a territory that's already a lightning rod for controversy in the game community because of how corporations have misused DMCA takedowns in the past.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) told "'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Wednesday night women of color are held to a double standard, as she opened up about becoming a "lightning rod" for many on the right and left.
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Given the extent to which her own personal journey has become a lightning rod for so many concerns in MMA, to dismiss her outright is to dismiss any productive discussion about what the sport is and where it's headed.
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The acquisition, announced at the height of China's $3 billion European soccer splurge, has become something of a lightning rod for Beijing's crackdown on overseas vanity deals as it tries to check capital outflows amid a weaker yuan currency.
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The attacks, which led to the first death of a US diplomat since 1979, became a political lightning rod in the preceding years, with Republicans criticizing the Obama administration and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for their response.
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Donald Trump's Walk of Fame star has been a lightning rod for violence, but it's going to weather the storm and stay put because cops and the group that manages the Walk of Fame don't want it 86'd.
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If the speaker (or Senate majority leader) is from the same party as the president, then the job is a demoted to an unpleasant mix of lightning rod for intra-party criticism and water-carrier for the chief executive.
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TAIPEI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars, the Golden Horse Awards, has created a sharp political divide between film stars and directors as the annual event becomes a lightning rod for questions about Taiwanese independence.
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Jones has been a lightning rod for years before the casino altercation too -- whether he's getting into airport scuffles, weighing in on the NFL kneeling discussion, going on hotel tirades, crashing cars or getting kicked out of other casinos.
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The announcement comes as Amazon has faced increased criticism over its pay and treatment of warehouse workers, and as CEO Jeff Bezos's place as the world's wealthiest businessman has made his company a lightning rod for politicians like Sen.
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He wrote on Twitter during the debate that "cages for kids were built by the Obama Administration" and arguing "he had the policy of child separation," an issue that has been a lightning rod for the current president's administration.
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Lester Holt, Martha Raddatz, Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace were selected Friday to moderate this year's presidential debates, providing a diverse and noncontroversial group of anchors for a role that has often been a lightning rod for partisan criticism.
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If Barr wins confirmation, he'll be thrust into the lightning rod role of overseeing the finale of the gravest probe in decades into a sitting President who has a long record of chafing against legal norms and constitutional restraints.
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Accused by critics of misusing public funds and failing to tackle rampant impunity, outgoing Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte was such a lightning rod for public anger that PRI candidate Hector Yunes was "embarrassed" to be in the same party.
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The arrests of the men, who investigators allege plotted the girl's abduction as a means of scaring the predominately-Muslim nomads into vacating the region, has proved a lightning rod in a part of India simmering with religious tension.
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As he was continuing to identify as a Mormon, it made the then 30-year-old an instant lightning rod within the national debate about the Church of Latter-day Saints and its long-standing opposition to LGBTQ sexualities.
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For South Koreans, the case has become a lightning rod for a nation grappling with widespread sexual abuse and accusations of pervasive misogyny, after a series of scandals involving the secret or forced taping of women in recent years.
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But with Trump in the White House, it has become a political lightning rod that has actually united Democrats — especially after a month-long government shutdown in January when Congress declined to give Trump his desired border wall money.
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The nomination of Mr. Kobach, a lightning rod in Kansas who has authored a series of immigration crackdowns, is sure to repel some of the state's moderate voters and offer Democrats a chance to compete for the governorship there.
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As one of the only openly gay celebrities in the Arab world, he has become a de facto mouthpiece and lightning rod, becoming embroiled in international human-rights issues when all he really wants to do is play music.
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"Joe would be a huge ally to the Trump administration and making America great," said Ms. Mendoza, an Arizona resident who said Mr. Arpaio, a lightning rod in the immigration debate, reached out to her after her son's death.
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"But I also know that I was this lightning rod, and I was somebody who people were quick to judge, often having nothing to do with me, but with the times and with the attitudes about women," she said.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a lightning rod for criticism since it was first proposed as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, and changes to how the bureau operates and its authority to conduct investigations seem inevitable.
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The investigation, which concluded in March with Mueller finding insufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Russia, has dogged Trump's presidency and continues to be a political lightning rod that has deeply divided Republicans and Democrats.
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It's the latest move by a state to take immigration matters into its own hands, particularly around a controversial question that's become a political lightning rod: Can local governments limit their cooperation with the feds when it comes to immigration enforcement?
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The 18-episode fifth season of Empire, which is the second most watched show on Fox, is likely to be a viewership lightning rod and will offer a continuation of the compelling, emotional storyline the world has come to love.
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The initial arrests of the men, who prosecutors said plotted the girl's abduction as a means of scaring the predominately-Muslim nomads into vacating the region, proved to be a lightning rod in a part of India simmering with religious tensions.
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Charles, a hugely successful vlogger who can't even drink legally yet, wished to be the lightning rod for "influencer representation in the media" — or, in other words, to be more famous, in the traditional platforms of fame, than he already is.
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His company has become a lightning rod for criticism of Silicon Valley culture, but Uber CEO Travis Kalanick still has the full confidence of the board of directors, media executive and Uber board member Arianna Huffington told CNBC earlier on Friday.
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He has been a lightning rod for scandal before; in 2017, for example, when he tweeted a racist joke about catching Ebola from Africans while on a flight to Africa, which was met with rightful backlash: I am extremely sorry.
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The announcement comes as Amazon has faced increased criticism over its pay and treatment of warehouse workers, and as CEO Jeff Bezos's place as the world's wealthiest businessman has made his company a lightning rod for politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Over the last few weeks, the subject of Black women in comedy has become a lightning rod of a topic after both Wanda Sykes and Mo'Nique dragged burgeoning stand-up giant Netflix for undervaluing them as Black women and comedians.
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Retrophin – founded in 2008 by Martin Shkreli, who last year became a lightning rod for criticism of soaring drug prices – plans to discuss an expedited path for sparsentan with U.S. health regulators in the coming months, Chief Executive Stephen Aselage said.
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Although the black comedy proved to be a pop cultural lightning rod before it even debuted — as some reviews also labeled the southern-fried saga homophobic and racially insensitive — it's possible Insatiable is still fulfilling the goals of its creator.
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The proposed pipeline has been a lightning rod of controversy for nearly a decade, pitting environmentalists worried about spills and global warming against business advocates who say the project will lower fuel prices, shore up national security and bring jobs.
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Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Republican Anthony Pappas to be become at 29 the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress, has since become one of the highest-profile left-wing Democrats in Washington and a lightning-rod for criticism from conservatives.
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The dam project became a lightning rod for what critics saw as China's growth-at-all-costs economic model, coming in billions of dollars over budget, and was later linked to embezzlement and nepotism scandals, according to the national audit office.
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Rachel Brand, a well-respected Republican lawyer who became a partisan lightning rod in the Senate earlier this year, would be the lead official at the Department of Justice overseeing the Russia probe if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recuses himself.
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Given America's focus on police ambushes following the large, high-profile attacks on officers in Dallas, Texas, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this July, one might have expected this point-blank assault and rampage to serve as a national lightning rod.
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Arpaio pardon The administration's new plan, which could lead to the further "militarization" of police, was announced three days after Trump pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- a vehement supporter and lightning rod for claims of police brutality and racial discrimination.
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The bill is the latest lightning rod for many worried about Beijing overreach in the former British colony that was promised a high degree of autonomy under a "one country, two systems" formula when it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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The lightning rod for complaints is the Pope's 2016 document, Amoris Laetitia -- which has opened the possibility for some divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion -- and the differing interpretations of the document, which conservatives say have sown confusion among Catholics.
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A commission to design a stadium in Qatar — a sensuous plan that more than a few observers likened to female anatomy — became, in truth unfairly, a lightning rod for critics who decry the treatment of foreign laborers by the government there.
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There is discussion of replacing Pelosi, but that appears to be more focused on Pelosi's role as a lightning rod for Republican attacks and a concern from Democratic candidates that Pelosi could cost votes and potentially seats in battleground districts.
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Moore was long seen as the Alabama Democratic base as enemy #1 -- due not only to his controversial statements on race, gender and homosexuality, but also because of his long record in the state as a lightning rod for conservative causes.
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The stay-at-home mom — much like the "high-class hooker" — is a lightning rod for class resentments, never mind the fact that I was as economically coerced into surrendering my career as I was situationally compelled into selling sex.
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The arrests of the men, who investigators allege plotted the girl's abduction as a means of scaring the predominately-Muslim nomads into vacating the region, has proved to be a lightning rod in a part of India simmering with religious tensions.
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They believe he is the kind of moderate Democrat who can unseat the Republican congresswoman, Claudia Tenney, an unabashed supporter of President Trump whose fiery rhetoric has become both a lightning rod locally and a late-night television punch line nationally.
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In conservative media, Snipes became a lightning rod for criticism, with prominent publications calling her an "arrogant bungler" who should be removed posthaste while Republicans worried that a Florida recount could ultimately limit their net Senate victories to just one.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nick Kyrgios was a lightning rod for controversy at the U.S. Open this week but the fiery Australian was subdued after a third-round loss on Saturday and walked away quietly from the year's final Grand Slam.
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So the nominations did not offer much guidance on the Oscar fortunes of "Roma," Alfonso Cuarón's blissfully reviewed epic that has become a lightning rod in Hollywood because it comes from Netflix, which is challenging the traditional model for releasing films.
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The slowdown in buybacks, which have become a lightning rod for criticism among some in Washington and even on Wall Street, underlines the impact the tax law had last year as companies steered a sizable chunk of their windfall to investors.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean student who became a lightning rod for broad social unrest after police shot him in the face during a demonstration has said President Sebastian Pinera will never regain the trust of citizens and should step down.
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DeVos wasn't initially expected to be one of Trump's more controversial picks, but her nomination has been a lightning rod for criticism from both sides of the aisle as well as public school advocates, teachers unions and disability rights groups.
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Woodward, a former banker who joined Manchester United after helping its unpopular owners, the Glazer family, acquire the team in 2005, has become a lightning rod for United fans angered by the precipitous decline in the club's on-field fortunes.
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While he has become a lightning rod for the left, which accuses him of using his position to run interference for the president on the Russia investigation, Mr. Nunes is also considered a very safe bet to win the seat again.
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That incident became a lightning rod for frustrations about poor safety standards in China and the uncaring attitudes of the authorities, just as it appears Li's death will be a conduit for anger over a host of issues beyond the virus.
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A top aide to Ms. Pelosi dismissed the idea that her lightning-rod status might have hurt the Democratic effort in Georgia, and pointed out that in some polls the Republican speaker, Paul D. Ryan, is viewed even more dismally.
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He has become a local lightning rod, criticized by many for advocating independence but also seen as a symbol of free speech after Chinese and Hong Kong officials called for a public address of his this week to be canceled.
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The report is expected to be a political lightning rod for Trump critics and his supporters alike, because it criticizes the FBI's process, but supports the agency's legal basis for launching the investigation, according to sources familiar with the findings.
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Pruitt, who is charged with protecting the nation's air and environment, has become a lightning rod for his record of climate change skepticism, his aggressive rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations and his close relationship with the companies the EPA regulates.
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Tomi is known as a lightning rod of controversy, having commented on hot button issues recently like gun control (or a lack thereof), Trump and Stormy, alleged animal abuse ... and even racist lawyer Aaron Schlossberg (whom she denounced, for the record).
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"The FTC is liked for this job, he said, because he admires the agency's functionality and its ability to remain nonpartisan; that and because it's run by "hard-nosed regulators who know what they're doing and have not become a political lightning rod.
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The lightning rod for such divergent opinions is front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the once-fiery leftist who has moderated his rhetoric and sought alliances across the political spectrum after two unsuccessful presidential runs and having led massive protests alleging electoral fraud.
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The 1,180-mile (1,899 km) Keystone XL pipeline project has been a lightning rod of controversy for a decade, hotly contested by environmentalists but desperately needed by Canadian oil producers who face steeper-than-normal crude price discounts due to transportation bottlenecks.
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The post-midterm election battle in the state — notoriously riddled with disputed recounts — has become a lightning rod for conservatives and President Donald Trump who claim Democrats are trying to "steal" the election from Republicans who currently hold narrow leads in two races.
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According to a a report today from Reuters, regulators are now asking AT&T to put some of its assets up for sale or to offer comparable "structural remedies" that would make the unprecedented media consolidation less of an antitrust lightning rod.
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The Aliso Canyon gas leak was a major environmental disaster, but it was also symbolic lightning rod for scientists and environmentalists, who are concerned that the oil and gas industries are racking up a much bigger methane bill than they're letting on.
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Buttigieg's comments about race and policing, as well as his record on race as mayor, could prove to be another lightning rod as voters seek out more information on Buttigieg, the only candidate polling above 1 percent without ever holding federal office.
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Pakistan's blasphemy law has become a lightning rod for Islamists, especially since 2011 when the liberal governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was murdered by a bodyguard for questioning the law that mandates the death penalty for insulting Islam or the Prophet Mohammad.
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But Aleah Chapin paints the kind of nudes that, despite being straight-forward and respectful, still manage to be a lightning rod for controversy because they honestly depict the kind of bodies that our society has decided it would rather not see.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Hindu group on Saturday in a centuries-old dispute with minority Muslims over a place of worship in northern India that has been a lightning rod for tension between the two communities.
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Johnson, seen as the biggest threat to Prime Minister Theresa May's struggling leadership, has become a lightning rod for discontent within the party after a newspaper column in which he said Muslim women who wear burqas look like letter boxes or bank robbers.
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NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday scheduled a trial for June 2017 in the U.S. government's securities fraud case against former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, who became a lightning rod last year for outrage over soaring prescription drug prices.
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The letter comes a day after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that no Democrats were invited to the meeting, scheduled for Thursday, about a confidential FBI source who has emerged as a lightning rod for controversy in the Russia probe.
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Accused by critics of misusing public funds and failing to tackle rampant impunity, outgoing Veracruz Governor Javier Duarte had become such a lightning rod for public anger that PRI candidate Hector Yunes said he was "embarrassed" to be in the same party.
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And yet, on Tuesday, Facebook announced that it had uncovered a "coordinated political influence campaign" that used "inauthentic accounts and pages" over the past year to stir the pot on a number of lightning rod issues on both the left and right.
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Watching Clark morph from a woman with a job to a lightning rod of public scrutiny is one of the most heartbreaking aspects of this episode, second only to the fact that she seems to know she can't really do anything about it.
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But Alderson turned from standup act to straight man on Thursday when the Mets announced that, lo and behold, they had signed Tebow — a former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, an N.F.L. washout and a cross-cultural lightning rod — to a minor league contract.
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The government has faced mass protests for its attempts to roll back the anticorruption drive, but Ms. Kovesi has been a lightning rod for those who say that the efforts have gone too far, including in the use of court-approved wiretaps.
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Beyond Kemp's home run, the Dodgers' offense was powered by Manny Machado, the lightning rod shortstop, who regularly endured choruses of boos from the crowd at Fenway but managed to drive in three runs on a single, a groundout and a sacrifice fly.
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The lightning rod of the moment is David Koresh, the religious cult leader who died in 1993 along with many of his Branch Davidian followers after a prolonged confrontation with the F.B.I. Those events are being dramatized on Paramount's "Waco," starring Taylor Kitsch.
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Initially, it seemed that Becky and her good hair would be one of those amorphous ghosts — a placeholder for the wrath of Beyoncé's fans' ire, a cipher whose sole purpose is to be a lightning rod of anger, a universal punching bag.
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While he remains a lightning rod in the Arabic community in Germany, he stands as a model migrant to most Germans — an educated outsider who by sharing the country's liberal values has carved out a role for himself in the broader culture.
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The new law allowing women to drive removes a lightning rod for critics and allies who have long derided the Saudis, a bastion of conservative Islamic orthodoxy, for following a repressive practice embraced by groups like the Taliban and the Islamic State.
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The shooting of Trayvon remains a lightning rod, as Zimmerman has maintained he was attacked by Martin and was defending himself ... but police, prosecutors and much of the general public viewed it as an unjustified killing of a kid in a hoodie.
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The fact that some of these state laws are so broadly worded as to apply to people like Amawi has turned them into a lightning rod, making enemies out of national Democrats who might otherwise be willing to vote for the Rubio bill.
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Like Hannibal's Will Graham or The Leftovers ' Kevin Garvey, Painter is an unreliable, contradictory protagonist par excellence: a lightning rod for waking nightmares that threaten to swallow his whole reality—but he's also the person closest to understanding the series's central mystery.
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The H-1B visa program — which enables U.S. companies to hire high-skilled foreign workers — has become a political lightning rod but remains essential for American companies to hire the technical talent they need to compete on a global scale, said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving.
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And that has made the site a lightning rod of controversy for critics, from both the left and right, who not only dispute but also find funny the notion that Clinton and her campaign are the single centripetal force around which American politics still revolves.
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"I think if we spent less time and energy attacking this individual owner — who I get it, is a lightning rod — and more energy talking about how we could help dogs," he says, "we would have made a big difference in the past week."
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Celebrity attorney Alan DershowitzAlan Morton DershowitzTrump couldn't get Ukraine to smear Joe Biden, so Senate Republicans did it for him Trump's acquittal may have profound impact on presidential power Why the Senate must convict MORE has become the lightning rod of the Senate impeachment trial.
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His trip proved to be a lightning rod for controversy, as local officials sparred over the actor's criticism of the nation's palm-oil industry – and its impact on animal habitats – amid claims that DiCaprio could eventually be blacklisted from the country for his comments.
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The agency, set up in 2011 in the wake of the financial crisis, is a political lightning rod — the party platform Republicans adopted last week calls it a "rogue agency" that should be abolished — and howls of protest usually accompany any new rules it proposes.
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The texts between the two former FBI employees have served as a lightning rod for allegations that Justice Department officials are biased against Trump, after it was revealed the pair had exchanged disparaging messages about Trump and other political figures during the 2016 presidential race.
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Rather than a symbol of the progressive governance of Ms. Raggi's party, the Five Star Movement, Tiberis has become yet another lightning rod for Romans to vent their dissatisfaction with the mayor, who is entering the third tempestuous year of a five-year term.
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"There is no question that they have become this lightning rod because they are not just luxury housing but uber-luxury housing," said Elizabeth Goldstein, president of the Municipal Art Society, a nonprofit group that seeks to preserve the city's architecture and urban design.
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A crucial moment will come in Tuesday's primary election when Kansas' secretary of state, Kris Kobach — a Trump ally who has become a national lightning rod for his views on immigration and voting rights — could snatch the nomination for governor from the incumbent, Gov.
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Mr. Soros, who has spent some $12 billion through his Open Society Foundations to promote a liberal political and social agenda throughout the world, has become a lightning rod for resentment by Central and Eastern European populists intent on wresting their countries away from democracy.
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But his pardon of Mr. Arpaio, 85, who became a lightning rod for controversy over his anti-immigrant views and accusations that he racially profiled Latinos, has prompted a fresh round of criticism, even from one of the top members of his own party.
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Still, the comic-book kerfuffle represents the latest public-relations stumble for United, which has become a lightning rod for travelers' discontent ever since a passenger was dragged off one of its flights in April in a bloody episode that was captured on video.
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An endorsement from Ocasio-Cortez, a national lightning rod who remains popular with young people, women and non-white voters, would be a shot of adrenaline in the crowded nominating contest, especially as the candidates vie for support -- and donations -- from progressive primary voters.
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Pro Tech Foudre, which was to start work removing the lightning rod that ran down from the spire's top, described Europe Echafaudage as a reputable company with a strong safety record and experience working on prestigious sites, including the Pantheon and Louvre museum in Paris.
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The Trump administration's use of such waivers to save the oil industry money has become a lightning rod of controversy for the powerful corn lobby, which claims the exemptions have been overused and threaten demand for corn-based ethanol at a time farmers are already struggling.
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Though the NFL didn't even have players on the field for the national anthem before 2009 (and the anthem is traditionally not a part of the television broadcast shown to fans at home), the issue became a lightning rod for discussions about race, inequality, and police brutality.
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The Hungarian-born investor, a Jew who survived the Nazi occupation during World War II and who has committed about $93 billion of his fortune to human rights work around the world, has long been a lightning rod for conservatives for his support of progressive causes.
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In the age of Trumpian tumult, the zeitgeist is right for the return of a trailblazing figure that once captured national attention when a politician turned her into a polarizing lightning rod for her decision to have a child out of wedlock and become a single mother.
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The expansion of the hardship waiver program remains a lightning rod issue of contention between the rival oil and corn industries, and has become an unlikely talking point for a slew of Democratic candidates on the campaign trail looking to turn Midwestern farmers away from Trump.
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The hearing, set for Tuesday, is the latest development in a showdown between Apple and the government that has become a lightning rod in the national debate over digital privacy and what kind of data on phones and personal devices should be accessible to law enforcement.
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Winning the White House: From Press Prints to Selfies, on view at the Southampton Arts Center, seeks to remind us, however simply, that Trump is not the first lightning-rod candidate to run for president and that American politics has always been something of a spectacle sport.
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US District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, an Indiana-born jurist of Mexican heritage who became a lightning rod for Trump last year over his handling of a lawsuit against Trump University, on Wednesday presided over one of the more high-profile challenges to the administration's immigration agenda.
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John J. Santucci, who as the Queens district attorney from 262 to 212 became a lightning rod of controversy in high-profile cases involving a fatal racial attack, a municipal corruption scandal and allegations of lethal police brutality, died on Sunday in Mineola, N.Y. He was 22014.
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The Trump administration's use of such waivers to save the oil industry money has become a lightning rod of controversy for the powerful corn lobby, which claims the exemptions have been over used and threaten demand for corn-based ethanol at a time farmers are already struggling.
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FBI, Justice Department and intelligence officials are scheduled to hold two briefings with lawmakers on Thursday about a controversial FBI informant who has emerged as a lightning rod in the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
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Gabriel Szatan, a London-based Boiler Room senior programmer and Radar Radio host, says that he hasn't seen a ton more alt-rock and nu-metal played at the shows he puts together, but that certain scenes seem to have adopted it to lightning rod effect.
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She struggled in her hearing, and in short order became a late night punchline, a lightning rod for progressive protesters, and ultimately got confirmed when Mike Pence became the first vice president in history to cast a tiebreaker vote in the Senate for a cabinet nominee.
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During his three years in Philadelphia, the 2803-year-old with a background in finance and advanced metrics became one of sport's most polarizing figures, a one-man lightning rod for debates on "tanking" versus "losing culture" and chilly econometric analysis versus warm, beating, edible human hearts.
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Greeted by protests for months before and after its release — in France, one cinema showing the film was firebombed by conservative Christian activists — The Last Temptation of Christ is remembered at least as much as a lightning rod for culture war controversy as a religious film.
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Alayah was the lightning rod for Peter's season, and though this next move never, ever works out, the other ladies (including Lexi) decided to tell Peter that who Alayah was to Peter and who Alayah was to the rest of the ladies was not the same person.
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WASHINGTON — The F.B.I.'s embattled deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, an unlikely lightning rod who has been attacked repeatedly by President Trump and congressional Republicans, is expected to retire after he becomes eligible for his pension early next year, according to people familiar with his decision.
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Carter discussed her decision to run in an interview on Monday, hours before Gulati, who had become a lightning rod for criticism after the United States men's national team stunningly failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, revealed that he would not seek a fourth term.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Gordon has played most of his nine-year career in left field at Kaufmann Stadium, catching hundreds of balls in the exact spot where Yoenis Cespedes dropped an eminently catchable line drive Sunday night, the latest of his numerous lightning rod moments.
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His case became a lightning rod in Chile for fury directed at police for alleged widespread human rights abuses during more than six weeks of demonstrations over social inequality that have left at least 26 people dead and 13,000 injured, according to prosecutors and human rights organizations.
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For the #MeToo movement, which has spread into virtually every corner of American society — redressing a legacy of injustice even as it wrestles with questions like the dangers of a rush to judgment — Mr. Trump's words were sure to make him, yet again, a lightning rod.
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She's often a lightning rod in French debates about race — she supports the right to wear the veil in public, and an outcry from right-leaning politicians forced her from a government panel in 2017 — and was worried that sharing her story could be walking into a trap.
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The United Nations envoy here, Staffan de Mistura, in his announcement of the postponed start date, declined to say who would be invited to represent the opposition — a major sticking point — or mention what would happen to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the lightning rod of the conflict.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expected to become a "lightning rod" for conservatives, she told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Friday during a taped talk about her Green New Deal — an expansive legislative proposal to fight climate change and social inequality that's controversial even among some of her fellow Democrats.
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The director of Red Road and Fish Tank, who won a Best Live Action Short Film Oscar for 2003's Wasp, Arnold has assembled a cast that includes Sasha Lane, critical lightning-rod Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough, who has been flat-out phenomenal on Starz's The Girlfriend Experience.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel, a lightning rod for criticism in Silicon Valley for his support of Donald Trump, predicted on Monday that the movement the Republican presidential nominee has created would carry on even if he loses his bid for the White House on Nov. 8.
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As invaluable as he has been to the Republican Party, as Pied Piper and lightning rod, diversion and screen, the president is too self-obsessed, too ignorant, and too disinterested in the workings of government to be anything more than a rude kochleffel, the spoon endlessly stirring the pot.
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It's possible to do both," he said, adding, "To the young people who worked tirelessly to organize, I'm sorry adults chose to do this, I'm sorry NRATV did that, I'm sorry that adults on the left and the right are choosing to use me as a lightning rod.
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Lil Yachty is a reliable lightning rod in the hip-hop community for any number of reasons—his lack of historical knowledge of the genre, his nursery rhyme delivery, his goofy shade of red hair—that basically boil down to people thinking his music is dumb and moreover infantile.
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Mashrou' Leila, with its sexually subversive songs — which include references to gender fluidity and Abu Nawas, an eighth-century Arab, and Sappho (both known for poems that celebrate same-sex love) — have become icons for a beleaguered but determined L.G.B.T. community and a lightning rod for our moral guardians.
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Hong Kong police fired tear gas and high-pressure water hoses against protesters who had massed outside government headquarters Wednesday in opposition to a proposed extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the semiautonomous territory.
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Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur who became a lightning rod in April after his ambitiously marketed Fyre Festival devolved from a would-be luxury getaway into a jamboree of schadenfreude and cold cheese sandwiches, pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud in United States District Court in Manhattan on Monday.
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The allegations of abusive behavior by Home Secretary Priti Patel — all of which she denies — have made her a lightning rod in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's new cabinet, a ready-made villain for critics who accuse this hard-line Brexit government of running roughshod over British customs and institutions.
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The fly-on-the-wall access (or really, given the amount of time he spends on the road, fly in the Escalade) does, to some extent, humanize a figure who has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy, one who clearly relishes the bare-knuckled sport of politics.
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The proposed Keystone XL, which would run about 1,180 miles (1,899 km) from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska, has been a lightning rod of controversy since it was proposed a decade ago, with environmentalists making it a symbol of their broader fight against fossil fuels and global warming.
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