Sentences with phrase «international outrage at»

His admission comes amid international outrage at allegations that 35 world leaders were spied on, as well as claims that the National Security Agency monitored servers at nine internet companies, accessed 70 million records in France and spied on 35 embassies and missions.

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The email came after Kalanick failed to assuage public outrage over Uber's decision to turn off surge pricing at JFK International Airport at a time when taxis refused to stop there in solidarity with a protest against the order.

The Chibok abduction sparked international outrage and became the most infamous act by the Islamist Boko Haram group which has killed 20,000 people and uprooted at least 2 million in a brutal eight - year campaign that shows no sign of ending.

While such a move would require a protracted legal process, complete with appeals and checks against international law, the letter sparked outrage at British plans to «storm» the embassy, prompting many observers to brand it an own goal by the Foreign Office.

Ivanka Trump sparked outrage when she sat in for her father at the international meeting of world leaders.

Welcome to the 1st International Marriage Network — an Within weeks, legislators in Tennessee — humiliated by the outrage around the country — passed a bill that set the minimum age of marriage at 16.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

After the outrage had passed, though, the (white) clowns at the LA Times sure never went back to see what the birth of an international biennial superstar delivered.

Lawyers, environmentalists and civil society groups are calling it a «blatant violation» of two international moratoria and the news is likely to spark outrage at a United Nations environmental summit taking place in India this week.

The ruling effectively dissolved the elected legislature... and allows the court to write laws itself...» Faced with widespread outrage, both domestic and international, the court, at the request of Maduro, backed down a few days later and reversed its ruling.

This caused international outrage, resulting in the Home Secretary at the end - of March 2014 ordering an independent review of the Home Office's handling on LGB asylum claims, with a message that there should be a concentration on «sexual orientation and not sexual behaviour».