lightning rod

Controversy followed Reed, often a golf lightning rod nicknamed “Captain America,” after Team USA lost to Europe at Le Golf National in France.

Ricardo Salles, the Brazilian environment minister who became a lightning rod for anger over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, resigned Wednesday after allegations he obstructed a federal investigation into illegal logging.

The board refused to accept its role as the company’s lightning rod by kicking the decision back to Facebook.

The bill has become a lightning rod for Republican opposition, spurring claims that it is a partisan attempt to rewrite federal election laws in Democrats’ favor.

I don't know why he's singled out, but every time he just ends up being the lightning rod for my brothers' dirty jokes and my dad and uncle's drunken nicknames.

Second, Michelle served as a lightning rod in the sense of drawing attacks away from other reform groups.

On the top of the obelisk is a 100-ounce aluminum cap, which acts as a lightning rod.

Indeed Taubira, in particular, has been a lightning rod for opposition contempt.

The show delivered on all the spark a lightning rod host like Dunham should give off.

In 1968, Ted Nugent was a lightning rod, a personification of transformational freedom.

There he paused a moment for breath, and then climbed up the lightning-rod, hand over hand, and gained the roof.

Back along the wall he crawled, and, sliding down the lightning-rod, was once more on the roof of the old hotel.

Only the clumsy old lightning-rod shrieking in its rusty fixtures when the wind blows.

A friend of mine in a Southern city tells me of a red-headed woodpecker that drums upon a lightning-rod on his neighbor's house.

From this observation to the lightning rod was but a short step.