Sentences with phrase «americans were outraged»

On one hand, it's not hard to understand why Parker Bright, Hannah Black and the other protesting African - Americans were outraged by this painting.

Many Americans were outraged over Russia's e-mail hacking during the 2016 presidential election and expected a vigorous response from the U.S. government.

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From so - called bro - grammers, who have brought the worst of American frat culture to the corporate world, to Google's new plan to include user photos and recommendations in targeted ads, it's not hard to find evidence of mainstream outrage over the industry's excesses.

David Shulkin, U.S. secretary of Veterans Affairs, told reporters on Wednesday that as a Jewish American, he was «outraged» by neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups and felt obligated to speak out against them.

Speaking on Sunday night about Trump's war of words with the Muslim family of a fallen American soldier, Oliver seemed mystified and outraged that someone so close to the nation's highest office could be seen as failing in that office's duty of comforting grieving military families.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

«I think it's safe to say very simply that Facebook is losing the trust of an awful lot of Americans as a result of this incident,» said Peters, tying his constituents» questions about mobile data mining to their outrage over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

This is the year privacy safeguards finally kick in for consumers after outraged lawmakers wasted no time passing legislation in the wake of the Equifax data breach, which exposed the personal information of more than 145 million Americans.

«In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.

Opinions are fine, but when those opinions turn into actions directed at denying your fellow cirizens their civil rights, then all Americans should be outraged and boycott Chick FIl A.

Washington (CNN)-- When the State Department announced it was moving its Vatican embassy to a compound shared with the U.S. Embassy in Italy, some former ambassadors and conservative American Catholics were outraged.

Most recently, we have seen this culture of outrage manifest itself in the Republican primaries, as Americans flock to a madman whose primary attraction is reflecting and magnifying their own anger.

Where is the outrage from Jews (for whom we created anti-antisemitism laws), African - Americans (who have faced the most hate crimes), politicians (who advocate law and order), and Christians (the largest America group which advocates peace, love, harmony, and understanding).

It is easy to raise a cry of pain and outrage against the destructiveness of the American economy on our own poor people, on other societies and on the ecosystem.

The Ray case highlights an outrage that's long existed for many Native Americans.

Such «poor» people are poor in the sense that they are less affluent than other Americans, but they are not poor in any way that constitutes a national crisis or moral outrage.

Right wing pundits react with outrage, calling Jackson an America - hater who is blind to American suffering and death.

But try to provide contraception for American women, and they're outraged.

This time, it was the Americans» turn to be outraged.

In a region as passionate about college football as the American South, there's no real moral outrage when new cars or clothes or jobs for relatives appear.

Mr. Giuliani added: I think what was done to him was one of the great outrages in American legal history,» referring to Mr. Greenberg's forced retirement from AIG in 2005 during an accounting scandal that subsequently saw an AIG executive and four executives from General Reinsurance convicted of manipulating AIG's financial statement.

In the steel tariff case, outrage was expected from steel - exporting nations, but the administration did not anticipate the vocal complaints from American steel - consuming industries whose production costs subsequently skyrocketed.

And you should have been outraged as an American.»

People would be outraged and people tend to forget that Puerto Ricans are Americans, and they really do deserve a better response than they're getting.»

The following email was received from [email protected] expressing outrage with the possibility that proposed maps by the Asian American Legal and Defense Fund and Education Fund will be taken seriously.

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Leading green groups are outraged because this would undermine 1964's Wilderness Act which expressly bans motor vehicles on these last wild vestiges of untrammeled American land.

A representative from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has said: «The pro-life majority of Americans would be outraged to learn that their premiums must be used for this purpose.»

Critics Consensus: Outrage walks a difficult moral and ethical line — and not always successfully — but despite its flaws, it's a fascinating, provocative look at homosexuality in American politics.

Beatty, of course, has long been one of Hollywood's most famous liberals, and his obvious outrage over what's become of American politics helps shape the whole of Bulworth into something more than its patchwork parts.

Playwright Lucy Kirkwood said that the story, first staged at the Almeida theatre in 2013, has only grown more relevant: «It was thrilling for me to return to the story of two men, one American and one Chinese, trying to work out how to respond to the outrages of an increasingly outrageous world, and look through their eyes at our changing relationship with journalism, power, protest, and images themselves».

If you are interested in reactions from the African - American community, there is no shortage of published reports on those who support the film and those who are outraged.

It's about the united outrage we feel when Americans are murdered.

She's only outraged about the murdered Americans, failing to notice the foreign nationals and illegal aliens, including the service people who got up in the middle of the night and maybe even listened to WINS.

And with a vast majority of my audience being African - American, they cringed and were vocally upset when events of the early»90s like the Rodney King beating and LA Riots mirrored modern - day social outrage seen in Ferguson and Baltimore.

On that first day of school, he was outraged that Americans in New Orleans had no water to drink, and he had a kid - powered and kid - possible idea to address it.

This school was started in the 1930s by a dynamic priest, Father Harold Purcell, who was outraged by the educational injustice facing African American students in Montgomery.

Ed School Offers Gen Ed Course Harvard Crimson, October 4, 2011 «Standing in front of the 50 students in her education reform course, Graduate School of Education Professor Katherine K. Merseth told her students, «If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention'to the state of American education.»

One of them is Karen Lewis, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who, in a correspondence with Ravitch published yesterday on the latter's site, accused David Rosenberg, a vice president at Teach For America who criticized Ravitch publicly and demanded her to take down her nastiness, of «false outrage».

«Since it was so predictable that this massive statist bill would lead to an even greater federal power - grab than we've seen before, a cynic might suspect Sen. Alexander is playing to the cameras with his outrage,» education activist and fellow at American Principles Project Jane Robbins told Breitbart News after the hearing.

Parents are outraged over news that a lobbyist for the American Federation of Teachers bragged about watering down an education - reform bill at the AFT's national conference last month.

The «unusual afterlife,» as Rolling Stone puts it, of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho (PRH / Vintage; Brilliance Audio; OverDrive Sample) is not simply that 25 - years later it is still the most notorious book of 1990s, but that the story of a well - heeled serial killer has transcended the outrage that met its publication to become an Internet meme and a talked - about Broadway musical.

But it didn't take much research to discover what was really going on: an example of blatant hypocrisy sufficient to outrage even the most jaded observer of American politics.

Canadian veterinarians, Montreal SPCA, American Bar Association, outraged pet owners and ordinary people are voicing their opinions about this new law.

North American fans are outraged by some of the business decisions that Nintendo of America is making.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

This institution continues to suppress a generation of works by living American artists which really is an outrage.

But the show caused outrage at home, prompting Truman to make his Hottentot remark and one bitter congressman to declare: «I am just a dumb American who pays taxes for this kind of trash.»

Americans Were Radical Too, You Know — The Continental artists who sparked the bulk of the outrage were also joined by homegrown avant - gardists Marsden Hartley and John MaWere Radical Too, You Know — The Continental artists who sparked the bulk of the outrage were also joined by homegrown avant - gardists Marsden Hartley and John Mawere also joined by homegrown avant - gardists Marsden Hartley and John Marin.

A master storyteller, Marshall weaves the political, urban, suburban, and African - American history into ordinary narratives that are meant to upend popular perceptions of black culture as impoverished, violent or outraged and directly challenge conventional ideals of beauty.