stormy petrel in a sentence
Examples
- Libertarian Murray Rothbard advocated Powellism as a proper step toward free markets in the early 1970s, writing " There is only political strategy that carries hope for Britain in the foreseeable future : that of the dissident stormy petrel of British politics, Enoch Powell.
- The London group of the " Anarchist Federation " also produced a set of pamphlets under the imprint of Stormy Petrel which includes " The Hungarian Revolution 1956 "; " Errico Malatesta : Anarchism and Violence "; and " The Italian Factory Councils and The Anarchists ".
- James appeared in several Logie award for " Best Actor " for the plum role of Governor William Bligh in the 1960 ABC drama serial " Stormy Petrel " ( a role which he reprised in a 1974 episode of the anthology series " Behind The Legend " ).
- Sherlockian societies in five other Canadian cities are formally scions of the Bootmakers the Spence Munros of Halifax, the Bimetallic Question of Montreal, the Stratford ( ON . ) Sherlock Holmes Society, the Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen of Calgary and the Stormy Petrels of British Columbia.
- The level of influence Nasrullah enjoyed led Angus Hamilton in his 1910 book " Afghanistan " to describe Habibullah as a " weak-willed " ruler, and the possibility of Nasrullah making an attempt on the throne caused Hamilton to describe him as a " stormy petrel in the Afghan sea of domestic politics ".
- In the Russian language, many petrel species from the Hydrobatidae and Pelecanoididae families of the order Procellariiformes are known as " kachurka " ), the English translators uniformly used the " stormy petrel " image in their translations of the poem, usually known in English as " The Song of the Stormy Petrel ".
- In the Russian language, many petrel species from the Hydrobatidae and Pelecanoididae families of the order Procellariiformes are known as " kachurka " ), the English translators uniformly used the " stormy petrel " image in their translations of the poem, usually known in English as " The Song of the Stormy Petrel ".
- The association of the storm petrel with turbulent weather has led to its use as a metaphor for revolutionary views, the epithet " stormy petrel " being applied by various authors to characters as disparate as Roman tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher, a Presbyterian minister in the early Carolinas, an Afghan governor, or an Arkansas politician.
- Mstislavsky, who in Maxim Gorky's Literature Institute was the head of the Prose department, also wrote plays, among them " Built on Blood " ( produced by Vakhtangov Theatre, 1928 ), " Stormy Petrel " ( Baku Workers'Theatre, 1930 ) and " The Rook is a Spring Bird " ( Central Children s Theatre, 1945 ),