Sentences with phrase «attracting public criticism»

Bailouts of rail operating companies, such as that recently offered by Chris Grayling to two operators, rightly attract public criticism.

Not exact matches

The National Trust also attracted criticism earlier this month for banning volunteers from public - facing roles if they refused to wear a rainbow badge supporting the gay Pride movement.

The banned word list was made public — and attracted considerable criticism — when the city's education department recently released this year's «request for proposal» The request for proposal is sent to test publishers around the country trying to get the job of revamping math and English tests for the City of New York.

Johnson had attracted criticism in the political media for a series of gaffes in recent weeks, but amongst the wider public he was the most positively perceived of the Labour leadership.

Perhaps because so many shortlisted artists are involved in unconventional or avant - garde forms of installation art, contemporary sculpture, video art or other types of conceptual art, they tend to attract considerable criticism (even ridicule) from some art critics and members of the public.

The biggest public finance provider in the world has previously attracted criticism for backing the construction of high - carbon infrastructure, mostly in the form of coal - fired power stations.

The proposed text books — which come up for public hearing at the Texas state board of education on Tuesday — were already attracting criticism when it emerged that the science section had been altered to reflect the doctrine of the Heartland Institute, which has been funded by the Koch oil billionaires.

he proposed text books — which come up for public hearing at the Texas state board of education — were already attracting criticism when it emerged that the science section had been altered to reflect the doctrine of the Heartland Institute, which has been funded by the Koch oil billionaires.

Although this view was expressed more than 30 years ago, the offence remains and outraging public decency has continued to attract criticism in the years that have followed.

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary highlights one popular criticism: «The Act has attracted a huge amount of public hostility and helped to create a rights culture which has been seen by many people as forcing the state to make concessions to the undeserving... public bodies routinely hide behind the Act to hide their own incompetence.»

Public law schools are funded largely by Canadian taxpayers; and have been subjected to an avalanche of historic criticism; and have also been granted a monopoly to attract students who want access to the legal profession — not to «chart their own paths.»

It's rather distressing that the people who have worked hard to attract the Olympic Games to Vancouver and who have worked hard to make them happen — and seem to be on the verge of being successful — have so little confidence in the public benefit of the Games that they go to such extremes to suppress all possible criticism of them.

The courts attract public support or criticism at least in part by the quality of their reasons.

His public health reforms have attracted both high praise and heavy criticism, particularly his attempt to ban super-size soda sales in NYC.