Sentences with phrase «large public outcry»

In the wake of the corporate scandals in the late 1990s and early 2000s involving misappropriation of resources, bribery, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and other such shenanigans, there was a large public outcry on the part of shareholders, the media, the regulators, the government, and other community stakeholders asking «where were in - house counsel, were they asleep at the wheel?»

Concerns over the shelter's unsanitary conditions — including mice and cockroach infestations and animals left to sit in blood, urine, and feces — as well as unsafe veterinary practices came to a head earlier this year with a large public outcry and demands for the shelter's director, Linda Estrada, and other board members to be terminated.

Although the MTA has a $ 758 million deficit, a large public outcry caused them to rethink the proposed cuts.

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The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with gun makers after a wave of public outcry sparked by the Florida school shooting last week.

The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with gun makers following public outcry sparked by the school shooting in Florida.

If there are large demonstrations or other forms of major public outcry when a leader takes undemocratic actions, then the would - be authoritarian can't get away with their attempts to consolidate power.

This study comes shortly after Twitter announced that it shut down over 125,000 accounts associated with ISIS, following public outcry that the site has become a large source for ISIS recruitment.

Thanks in large part to the significant public outcry following the March vote, proponents of changing teacher evaluations have recently indicated a willingness to revisit this important issue in 2016.

After four year old Ayen Chol was killed by a dog (characterised as a Pit Bull, but probably a large cross breed) in August of 2011, Victoria's State Government responded to public outcry and rushed through legislation which made it an offense for an owner to keep a restricted breed dog which not comply with the following conditions:

85 Joan Miró works to stay in Portugal following public outcry; Barbican to host the UK's first large - scale show of Jean - Michel Basquiat

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.