Taking a job as a lightning rod is never easy.

He was the lightning rod and could earth the power within her.

Being a lightning rod is not a new experience to him, however.

He had always been a lightning rod when things went wrong.

The school was the lightning rod for civil rights almost from the beginning.

In 1998 a lightning rod was added to the top of the building.

You know, my point is that somebody would be made a lightning rod.

"Part of my job is to be a lightning rod," the President said.

Indeed, each candidate is a lightning rod to the other side.

The museum was a critical lightning rod from the very start.