Sentences with phrase «followed public pressure»

His apology followed public pressure after a news conference in which Rodrigue asked him about one of his teammate's skill at route running.

Following public pressure from the City Council, the Chicago Park District on Wednesday agreed to cut an admission fee increase for Chicago residents at the Art Institute of Chicago that was scheduled to take effect May 23.

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This followed news that the Spanish government doesn't intend to inject public funds into the bank, increasing pressure on the lender to merge.

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the government passed new laws circumscribing how lenders could be compensated, and public pressure provided an additional incentive for lenders to reign in the practices that had made them rich during the housing boom.

Hard - hitting cuts, followed by pressure to sell off local public spaces and services to soften the blow.

The continuation of the GOP - IDC partnership is not wholly surprising, though it follows a period of sustained public pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the IDC by allies of the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate to unify the party.

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The government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is reported to be following through on public pressure for Chilean airline LAN to cancel its weekly flight between Punta Arenas and Port Stanley, cutting the islanders off from the outside world.

Given the political and media pressure that can follow a public tragedy such as a homicide by an ex-psychiatric patient, it may be the case that in many instances people are being discharged on CTOs not for their own benefit but for that of the professionals — to cover their backs in the case of something going wrong.

We commend the Governor's budget proposal as a critical step in the right direction and are heartened by Speaker Silver and the Assembly's support for public financing, leaving the pressure on the Senate GOP to follow their lead and help pass public financing into law.»

Ultimately, the Republican - led Senate agreed to hold the hearings following weeks of mounting public pressure.

Ahead of her first public address following the brutal murder of her husband at the hands of Islamic extremists, Bangladeshi blogger Bonya Ahmed has called on the UK Government to do more in tackling extremism at home and to put pressure on international governments to tackle the growing persecution of humanists and the non-religious internationally.

But the opposition NDC has rubbished the report describing it as a move by the NPP to save itself from public pressure following the recent increase in petroleum prices.

Following pressure from Cabinet ministers led by Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson, Mr Brown also seems to have accepted that Labour would have to cut public spending from next year in order to meet its pledge to halve the deficit in four years.

Hotels and other public venues are frequently pressured to not rent meeting rooms to activists, who note that they have also been intimidated and followed by security officers.

School funding chiefs and academy trust bosses have been under increasing pressure to crack down on excessive executive pay following a public backlash over rising academy CEO pay in recent years.

«What I'm hoping is that when you have in - district public school choice and money follows the child that the marketplace starts to exert pressure on schools to perform better... So, right away, that schools are on notice that if I'm governor, I'm going to try to make sure this gets passed and implemented, so if they should start trying to be better schools right away, to the extent they can.»

If press can translate into public pressure on the government to investigate this case, and others like it that may follow, it is possible that Madre de Dios can avoid the kind of lawlessness that Acre and the rest of the Brazilian Amazon experienced for many years.

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After he and several other employees were pressured to follow President Bush's «vision» for the agency by a political appointee in NASA's Office of Public Affairs, Hansen took the battle public and spoke with the New York Public Affairs, Hansen took the battle public and spoke with the New York public and spoke with the New York Times.

Public health advocates had hoped the advisory panel's recommendation would provide clear cut advice that FDA would be pressured to follow.

New UK government rules and public pressure will see to that, making it vital that those firms that fall within the government's reporting criteria are fully prepared to deal with any criticism that comes their way following the publication of their gender pay figures.

«The announcement follows several years of sustained pressure from the Bar Council and many other organisations who work to promote the public interest of our citizens.

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The landmark decision to track well - being follows political pressure from the leader of the main opposition party on the importance of well - being and public concern following a UNICEF report which placed the UK at the bottom of a league for child well - being.