Sentences with phrase «came under fire last»

Apple came under fire last December for intentionally throttling the performance of iPhones with aging batteries, without...

Apple came under fire last December for intentionally throttling the performance of iPhones with aging batteries, without informing users first.

Martin, who runs JP Martin Energy Strategy, has worked in various sectors of the oil industry and is tied to the controversial SUNY Buffalo Shale Resources and Society Institute, which came under fire last year when it published a study that had ties to the oil industry.

CULTURE Minister Kim Howells came under fire last night over a foul - mouthed tirade against this year's Turner Prize entries.

The MP for Bognor Regis came under fire last July for telling the TES that he didn't believe there was a crisis relating to teacher numbers, and has previously been accused, along with other ministers, of burying his head in the sand over the issue.

The investigative agency, the Professional Practices Commission, came under fire last year after The Associated Press uncovered names of convicted criminals who were still certified to teach in Georgia.

That wholesome reputation came under fire last September when separate studies by Consumer Reports and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showed that much of the rice in this country harbors a significant load of inorganic arsenic, a carcinogen associated with a wide variety of cancers.

The government came under fire last month for not promoting enough growth.

The government came under fire last night from the Conservatives and the human rights group Liberty over the way the media is briefed on counter-terrorism operations.

Escobar came under fire last season for printing a homophobic slur in Spanish on his eye black.

He came under fire last year after it emerged he was charging as much as # 1,500 to attend a gala dinner with him.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has carved out a decent niche for herself as a savvy Twitter user, but she came under fire last week for a series of tweets that badly misread a video of President Donald Trump's interaction with a wheelchair - bound boy.

The seemingly steady advertising on Facebook differs from the reaction when Google - owned YouTube came under fire last year for showing ads next to hateful content.

EBay Inc., the world's largest online marketplace, will give consumers an incentive to shop in stores after Amazon.com Inc. came under fire last week for offering shoppers a discount to do the opposite.

The company came under fire last year after it announced it was laying off more than one - thousand people, including 440 in Saskatchewan.

The travel company United Continental Holdings (ual) came under fire last month when a passenger was dragged off one of its overbooked flights, a fiasco that dragged as much as $ 90 million off the value of Buffett's stake as United stock plummeted amid the ensuing outrage.

Dove came under fire last weekend for a three - second Facebook ad, which depicted a black woman wearing a brown shirt pulling off her shirt and revealing a white woman in a lighter colored shirt.

Amazon came under fire last week for selling the ebook.

Apple CEO Tim Cook noted in an interview that the company will update iOS with a new feature that will allow you to prevent your iPhone from automatically slowing down performance as your battery ages, after coming under fire last month for enabling that function without explicitly informing users.

Not exact matches

Last week, President Donald Trump came under fire after his responses to a plea for help from the mayor of San Juan were perceived by many as being racist and issuing blame on the hurricane victims.

Airlines» customer service practices have come under fire in recent months, and just last year, U.S. carriers were cleared in a federal investigation regarding exorbitant fare mark - ups in the wake of a deadly Amtrak derailment that drove up demand for air travel on some routes.

Deutsche Bank has come under fire for awarding big incentive payouts even though it lost money last year.

In the last week, Trump has especially come under fire for his past comments about the weight of former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado.

Last week, much - hyped uBeam came under fire after a former engineer questioned whether uBeam can ever ship the technology it has promised.

United Airlines employees have also come under fire for coercive behavior in the past, particularly when they dragged a man off of a flight last year.

He came under scrutiny last September after firing Austin Beutner, then publisher of the Los Angeles Times, because of a clash over whether the L.A. Times and San Diego Union - Tribune should remain part of the company.

Just last year, police in Reykjavik came under fire for dragging two young Iranian asylum seekers away from the altar at a church in Iceland.

Arsene Wenger was always going to come under fire for this, especially after he made the unwise decision of telling the football media about the «hamstring alert» that the Chile international had early last week.

We signed Alexis Sanchez last summer but Wenger came under intense fire for not replacing Vermaelen.

«It was a match where I felt more pressure in any Ryder Cup than I felt heading into this one because of the last two years and the buildup,» said Mickelson, who came under fire for dissing 2004 Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton after doing the same to Tom Watson two years ago at Gleneagles.

Our completed signings of last summer have been blamed in some aspects, with arrivals Granit Xhaka, Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi having all come under fire in contrasting ways during the campaign.

Claudio Ranieri is coming under fire at Leicester City currently, with his side struggling to cope with the expectations following their miraculous Premier League title win last season, but should he be on the shortlist to take over from Arsene Wenger at Arsenal?

Tough game but I think our guys come out fired up with the under dog chip and momentum from last year and make it close if not pull the upset.

Spieth, with a T10 finish in his final PGA tuneup at Firestone last week after firing a final - round 4 - under 66, had his bid for the calendar grand slam come to an end when he came up one shot shy of making it to extra frames at St. Andrews.

Defeat was hard on Sunderland but they came up short after Moyes came into the game under fresh fire following his comment that a BBC reporter might «get a slap» following an interview after their draw with Burnley last month.

Loris Karius has come under fire after Liverpool's Champions League draw in Moscow last night.

The news comes as QPR continue negotiations with Mark Hughes about succeeding Neil Warnock as manager, with the hope that a new boss can reignite the fortunes of Taarabt, who has been on the fringes this term, having fired the R's to promotion from the Championship the season before.A deal with French money bags Paris Saint - Germain looked like going through in the summer, but Taarabt later blamed political differences for the transfer ultimately collapsing, leaving him frustrated at having to stay in England.The mercurial Moroccan has interest from a host of top European clubs, but his conduct in the last few months, including walking out of QPR's 1 - 0 win over Chelsea at half - time and consistently admitting he wants to leave, have left many questioning his attitude and professionalism.However, Qatari side Al - Sadd have not been put off, and made their move for Taarabt last week, only to pull out of a deal after being told it would take a whopping # 15 million to convince them to sell.That sort of figure also rules out Newcastle and Aston Villa as potential destinations, with the thought now that QPR will hang on to Taarabt until at least the summer, where they hope Taarabt could spark a bidding war, after being rejuvenated under a new manager and firing the club to Premier League safety.

It has been pointed out that in sharp contrast with what has come to be known as Fergie Time, the last vital minutes of a game when under Ferguson United at Old Trafford would pull their chestnuts out of the fire, it has been five times this season that United, playing at home, have conceded in these closing minutes.

Our man Poll also came under fire over his handling of Spurs «2 - 1 victory over Chelsea at White Hart Lane at the beginning of last month.

The two joined forces with Hurtado to form a board majority that quickly came under fire for several decisions, including the hiring last year of Plainfield Village Trustee Garrett Peck as the district's executive director.

When Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin came under heavy fire from Republicans and Democrats last year after telling a local interviewer that women couldn't become pregnant by rape, he sought shelter at the Delaware manse — and Elsass eagerly took him in, urging him to ignore the Republicans calling for him to drop out.

Last year, Nussbaum came under fire for his job as a political consultant to Democrat Kevin Kim during his bid for the City Council, which he lost to Dan Halloran.

Stefanik last week came under fire for calling for EPA Chief Scott Pruitt to resign but declining to sign onto a House resolution calling for his ouster.

The water board and the water infrastructure in Niagara Falls have come under fire over the last several months because of various water main breaks and the discharge into the lower Niagara River in late - July.

The START - UP program also came under fire during a legislative hearing last month in Albany.

The safety of Indian Point has come under renewed scrutiny in recent days after a transformer fire at the plant last Saturday night.

Last January, he came under fire after he threatened to throw a NY1 reporter off a balcony and break him in half «like a boy» after the reporter asked him about the investigation into his campaign fundraising.

Bump stocks, which can increase the rate of fire on a weapon, came under intense scrutiny after investigators said they believed Stephen Paddock used them to modify weapons used in a mass shooting in Las Vegas last October that killed roughly 60 people and injured hundreds more.

He also came under fire for his expense claims last year, when it emerged he had «flipped» his constituency home while renting out a London property and living in a state - owned rent - free apartment.

The flier also listed the names of CSNY board members (disclosed last week after the committee came under fire for its lack of transparency) and called on them to step down.