bird-dog
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“It took three and a half years of weekly protests outside her office. Plus, we also had a bird-dog campaign against her. Every time we’d find out where she was, we’d go,” Abdullah explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
Now that we know how the show works, it's easy to bird-dog the secrets hiding in plain sight.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022
The initial park-heavy, public-ownership vision for the property has, for the most part, been abandoned, although activists continue to bird-dog the development piece by piece as it comes up for permit review.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
Everytown also plans to send allies to bird-dog, or publicly question, targeted members of Congress at public events during the upcoming break.
From Time ● Jun. 23, 2016
For more than a generation, the National Championship, bird-dog classic of America, had been run near Breton Junction where, two weeks later, Burton got off the train and was met by Ferris.
From Frank of Freedom Hill by Samuel A. (Samuel Arthur) Derieux
“Politicians aren’t ignoring us anymore, and it’s because we agitated, we organized, and we bird-dogged these politicians every place they were.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
Television crews bird-dogged passing senators with questions and quips.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2017
They bird-dogged public hearings and visited Chambers of Commerce and Lions and Rotary Clubs, putting 200,000 miles on their truck.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
Over New Year's, they bird-dogged a line of student demonstrators on a four-day, 75-mile protest walk from Belfast to Londonderry.
From Time Magazine Archive
The organization will continue to use “the full set of tactics that we have used in the past,” said Prakash, meaning that Sunrise’s bird-dogging and sit-ins probably aren’t going anywhere.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2022
When they did make contact, they deployed a strategy known as bird-dogging, asking pointed questions about how a senator would be voting.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2018
In these, he is inventively abetted by Marc Spicer’s bird-dogging camera, which noses around closet doors and into cellar corners with shivery curiosity.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
His campaign has beefed up a team dedicated to bird-dogging the arcane state-by-state process of selecting delegates — which Trump is struggling to navigate — assigning each delegate to a dedicated campaign staffer for support.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2016
He's hand in glove with McCaffery and that blonde is bird-dogging him around town and pointing out McCaffery's enemies.
From "And That's How It Was, Officer" by Ralph Sholto
