Sentences with phrase «come under fire from»

Appraisers have come under fire from real - estate agents for various reasons — including being too conservative and being unfamiliar with neighborhood values, according to a 2013 survey of agents by the National Association of Realtors.

Zillow and other third - party listing portals, including Trulia and Realtor.com, have come under fire from some brokers in recent months over both listing inaccuracy and ads and lead forms for competing agents that sometimes appear next to listings on the sites.

Early in the planning process, Westfield had come under fire from some community groups because its intention to replace the retail space lost in the attacks seemed to conflict with plans to reattach the WTC site to the lower Manhattan street grid.

Planned Parenthood has come under fire from Republicans recently after an under cover video allegedly showed an executive discussing selling cells from aborted fetuses.

Former Washington Post employee Brian Krebs, who runs a site claimed to be dedicated to security issues, has come under fire from users of a German image board pr0gramm.com after he revealed details about several admins and moderators in an article which claimed to identify who was behind the cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive.

A Dubai - based blockchain company conveniently named «Alibabacoin Foundation» has now come under fire from the Chinese brand, Alibaba, for copyright infringement.

Peer - to - peer virtual currency Bitcoin has come under fire from US senators worried it is being used to anonymously buy illegal drugs online.

It's worth noting that Motorola has recently come under fire from some Z2 Force users over a peeling issue with the Shattershield layer.

Apple has come under fire from customers after the company confirmed that it slows CPU performance in order to prevent random reboots from occurring.

President Maduro, who formerly worked as a bus driver and union leader, has come under fire from economic experts.

Bitcoin.com owner Roger Ver has once again come under fire from his own alleged supporters on social media after making contentious statements.

Several of the survivors have come under fire from far - right groups and conspiracy theorists online, who have claimed that at least one of the survivors was a paid actor, and that the shooting itself was a staged, so - called «false flag» attack.

Clyburn is a fierce defender of the agency's Lifeline program, which has come under fire from conservatives as a wasteful government handout.

Blogger Maria Popova has come under fire from a number of critics for her use of undisclosed affiliate links on her blog Brainpickings, which highlights how heated the debate over alternative forms of advertising has become.

However, the proposals have come under fire from Lawyers for Media Standards (LMS)-- a group s, including Collyer Bristow and Russell, Jones and Walker (RJW)-- who oppose a 10 % cap.

The government has come under fire from MPs for publishing summaries of 39 sectors that will be affected by Brexit — on the last day of the Parliamentary session.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has come under fire from the National Audit Office (NAO) after its uncollected debts were found to have increased by # 400m, according to NAO's 2011 report.

Although the new minimum will be gradually ushered in, it has already come under fire from some critics in the business community.

But that prediction has come under fire from prominent climate scientists, including Dr Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Thanks to EPA's new greenhouse gas permitting authority, a proposed Wisconsin biomass plant has come under fire from green activists.

New York City has recently come under fire from rainforest advocates, and rightfully so: The City is the country's number one buyer of endangered rainforest wood.

But the sleek and high - tech 14.5 km north - south line has come under fire from critics of the debt - ridden government, whose budget for the subway reportedly exceeded that of three important ministries and 5 pivotal governmental institutions, including the ministry of higher education, science and technology.

The funds the Clean Technology Fund, the Forest Investment Fund, the Adaptation / Climate Resilience Pilot Fund, and the Strategic Climate Fund are moving forward despite having come under fire from developing countries as well as from environment and development organizations.

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

The Export - Import Bank, over which the president has authority, has come under fire from environmental groups for financing coal plants in less - developed countries.

Obama noted that his plans would come under fire from special interests and some politicians, who would argue that the actions would cripple the economy and devastate jobs.

Under Campbell, the Met had come under fire from critics and its own staff, leaving some to wonder whether the museum was a «great institution in decline,» as one former curator told the New York Times.

The Serpentine Gallery has come under fire from the Independent newspaper as well as the satirical Jackdaw blog for allegedly authorising a 45 % salary increase for its gallery co-directors, Julia Peyton - Jones and Hans - Ulrich Obrist.

Destiny 2, for all its glories, has come under fire from fans upset about how it's changed its customisable armour colours, or «shaders» as Destiny parlance goes, to one - time use consumables.

The Wii and DS shopfronts have come under fire from fans and pundits alike for being clunky, under - featured and cumbersome to use, and Nintendo has now admitted that they simply weren't up to scratch.

The game has come under fire from some players who don't care for the fact that it requires an Internet connection or find the gameplay repetitive.

EA has once again come under fire from gamers and critics regarding the amount of emphasis on spending real cash in their new game, Dungeon Keeper.

How is that a game can already come under fire from the purist of the titan franchise Gran Turismo, when it hasn't even been launched yet.

-- Joss Whedon Prominent fighter for female rights Joss Whedon — the man behind two Avengers movies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and much more — has come under fire from people claiming -LSB-...]

The AKC has come under fire from an increasing number of critics including veterinarians, breeders, trainers and animal advocates that who charge that it has done purebred dogs irreparable harm.

«The move is part of increased scrutiny of the shelter, which has come under fire from animal activists who allege that inhumane treatment of animals and criminal behavior have gone on at the North Street facility.»

A recent edition of the Rekenthaler Report from Morningstar would have us believe that American Funds have suffered investor withdrawals due to a guilt - by - association with active management which has increasingly come under fire from both academia and from key players in the... Read More

Most recently, the self - selecting - sampled survey produced by Digital Book World (DBW) and Writer's Digest has come under fire from Howey and others for what they say is an incorrect way of comparing self - published and traditionally published authors» earnings.

Being first to market with a true SUV hybrid is important to Ford, which has come under fire from environmental groups for its reliance on gas - guzzling large pickups and sport utilities.

BMW has come under fire from enthusiasts for losing their edge, but the the new M cars weigh less and pack more horsepower than the cars they replace.

Jason Kamras, the school system's chief of human capital, said that no one should interpret the decision as a retreat from the school system's commitment to the Common Core, the national education standards that have come under fire from both sides of the political spectrum.

Plans in the document to turn every state school in England into an academy by 2022 have come under fire from teaching unions and parents» groups, with ongoing protests against forced academisation planned across the country.

Teach Plus and E4E have come under fire from critics who charge they are funded by outside organizations and don't represent the view of most local teachers.

All but 10 states now include some measure of student performance in their evaluations of schools of education, according to NCTQ, which supports a practice that has come under fire from statisticians and others who argue it isn't reliable.

The foundation had come under fire from economists for flawed analysis.

The program has recently come under fire from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has filed a lawsuit alleging the program is impeding federal school - desegregation efforts initiated in the 1970s.

President Barack Obama is forcefully defending his signature education initiative, the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, which has come under fire from civil rights groups that worry the competitive nature of the program creates a system of winners and losers that could hinder schools serving poor and minority students.

And Delaine Eastin, a former Democratic Assembly member who was elected the state schools superintendent last year, has come under fire from some bilingual - education...

It was never going to be easy to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, which has come under fire from the left to the right of American politics.

«A hovercar racer is tasked with escorting an informant to safety as the two come under fire from corrupt government operatives.»