Sentences with phrase «national criticism after»

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The Obama administration likened the new agency to the National Counterterrorism Center established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by al Qaeda following criticism that the various U.S. intelligence agencies were not communicating well.

BHP Billiton's top Australian executive has stepped up the company's criticism of the WA Nationals» planned iron ore tax hike, two days after an opinion poll found high support for the proposal.

The stinging criticism came from members of the nonprofit National Nurses United, speaking on Capitol Hill with Democratic members of Congress after a two - week humanitarian mission to Puerto Rico.

Los Blancos have come under fierce criticism from the national press and their own fans after squandering their lead in La Liga, having been overtaken by Barcelona, and the atmosphere at the Bernabeu described as «a pressure cooker» by Spanish paper Marca, quoted by MailSport.

There was further criticism of Osborne today after it was revealed that just one fifth of the infrastructure projects in the national infrastructure plan are being built.

Not long after the Democrats took back control of the House, Slaughter's feistiness and creative criticism of the GOP made her a national figure.

Yarl's Wood, where foreign nationals are detained before being deported, faced criticism last month after the chief inspector of prisons, Peter Clarke, said he had found increasing numbers of women held there despite evidence they were victims of torture, rape and trafficking.

Since returning to parliament Galloway has faced criticism for the scarcity of his appearances in the Commons, been banned by the National Union of Students for comments about the Julian Assange rape case and stormed out of a debate after discovering his opponent was an Israeli.

Network Rail faces severe criticism after a National Audit Office (NAO) report found there were 14 million minutes of delay to rail journeys in 2006/07.

Both LIPA and National Grid have been reeling from public and official criticism after a response to superstorm Sandy that has been called chaotic and unacceptable.

A third caveat relates to the criticisms levied against us by the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) after our report's initial release.

It also brings to an end a difficult week for the Department for Education, which has already faced criticism from the National Audit Office for its accounts, and comes just weeks after the government announced it would no longer be using new reception baseline tests as an performance measure for schools after concerns were raised about comparability.

It's the latest in a series of reforms after stinging criticism from the National Audit Office at the government's failure over several years to provide parliament with a clear view of academy trusts» spending.

After all, it is no different than defensive statements against criticism of traditional teacher compensation and other failed practices within American public education made over the past few years by Weingarten and her colleagues within both the AFT and the National Education Association.

After staunchly defending his book, «Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture,» against criticism of his research and findings, Bellesiles offered his resignation when an academic investigative committee «researched the allegations of scholarly fraud and concluded that Bellesiles was guilty of both substandard research methodology and of willfully misrepresenting specific evidence in» the book.

Wikipedia includes such cheering facts as: «In November 2008 social networking website Facebook received criticism after a «Kick a Ginger» group, which aimed to establish a «National Kick a Ginger Day» on November 20, acquired almost 5000 members.