Sentences with phrase «came under heavy fire»

While the government's proposals came under heavy fire at the hands of the peers, only a few concessions (albeit important ones) were made.

After EA came under heavy fire from fans with its implementation of loot boxes in Battlefront II and with Destiny 2 also being under scrutiny for the same issue - Anthem will need to get this element of the game just right.

Sani Usman said the troops came under heavy fire at Jarawa village.

Seen as the chief architect of the Remain campaign's disastrous Project Fear scaremongering, Mr Osborne came under heavy fire from his own side.

Last week was not a good one for de Blasio, who flew to the Vatican for a papal conference on climate just as a City Hall push to restrain the growth of car - hail companies came under heavy fire from its intended target, Uber.

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.

Just a week after his big Super Bowl win, Peyton Manning came under heavy fire for a sexual assault case that happened nearly 20 years ago.

Graham also famously cooperated with Christians of other traditions, and came under heavy fire for doing so.

Popular preacher Joel Osteen has come under heavy fire for initially refusing to open his church to victims of the Houston floods.

In a series of parables, gathered and preserved in Luke 15, Jesus defends his ministry which had come under heavy fire from those critics who recognized unsavory characters in his circle of disciples.

The hammer blow to the 14 - year - old center is coming under heavy fire.

They stem from working freelance for legal weasels like Marty (Pollack) and Arthur (a superbly unraveling Wilkinson), both in a firm about to come under heavy fire for abetting some serious corporate malfeasance.

Look up any concept in the book's index — charter schools, constructivism, international schooling models, teacher tenure — and you can be sure it comes under heavy fire.

A couple of years back the heat was only for the extreme violence within the game, but more recently the game developer and publisher has come under heavy fire in reference to unlockable sexual content on the Xbox, PS2, and PC versions of the game.

Recently, he has come under heavy fire after he agreed to the extradition of Marc Emery to the United States.

March 17, 2011 - State laws allowing non-citizens access to driving privileges and auto insurance coverage in Utah and New Mexico have come under heavy fire in the first months of the new legislative session, but it looks like they will be preserved after bills that would have...

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The machines are big moneyspinners for companies like Ladbrokes but they have come under fire for leaving gamblers with very heavy losses.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

Despite a tough campaign, in which his club have endured heavy criticism and calls for the manager to leave, before earning a second - placed finish in the league on the final day of the season, Ozil has been a strong positive point amongst fans, whereas a number of his team - mates have come under fire.

The Kindle Fire is coming under some really heavy attacks in the press recently.

Although the fund owns companies across the health care sector, including insurers and equipment makers, a pharmaceutical - heavy portfolio — about 60 % of Health Care's assets are invested in pharmaceutical and biotech firms — held the fund back over the past year as those stocks came under fire during the recent U.S. presidential campaign.

Despite his finger wagging this week, Mayor de Blasio has come under fire from all sides for his own carbon - heavy lifestyle.