Sentences with phrase «of a firestorm»

Sheriff fears: Broward Sheriff Scott Israel is at the center of a firestorm of criticism and calls for his removal, the Sun Sentinel's David Fleshler reports.
In the midst of a firestorm over the release of teacher data, Evan Stone reiterates that teacher growth data should be a part of a multi-measure evaluation...
Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson thinks so, and inadvertently kicked off a bit of a firestorm when he expressed that sentiment on Twitter.
In 2010, two Oscar contenders — Blue Valentine and Black Swan — were in the middle of a firestorm after the former received an NC - 17 for sexuality while the latter received an R. Blue Valentine shows consensual sex between a soon - to - be married heterosexual couple; in one sequence there is an oral - sex scene without anything covering the participants.
In the midst of the firestorm caused by news that Bernie Sanders would be addressing a high - level Vatican conference later this week, rumors are now circulating in Rome that Sanders may not be attending the event, most likely because he
Robbie Amell — the cousin of Arrow star Stephen Amell and the man who plays one half of Firestorm on The Flash — has posted an intriguing behind - the - scenes photo that suggests an imminent team - up between the Nuclear Man and the Emerald Archer.
Last week, the IOC touched off a bit of a firestorm when it released a four - page document outlining proper use of social media tools like Facebook and Twitter during the games.
For a film that starts out with a brutal rape and eventually works its way toward the rape victim temporarily entering a strange sadomasochistic relationship with her rapist, Elle has strangely not inspired the kind of firestorm of controversy that greeted many of Paul Verhoeven's 1980s and»90s Hollywood films.
He is currently the voice of Firestorm in new Cartoon Network hit Justice League Action.
The online retailer has been following a 1992 US Supreme Court decision concerning the collection of sales tax from customers if the retailer has a physical presence in that state, but in light of the firestorm of opportunity that swept the country when different states saw a veritable cash cow from the nation's largest online retailer, Amazon has had to get creative with different states.
JCPenney landed at the center of a firestorm earlier this month over a shirt it was selling to girls, bearing the slogan: «I'm too pretty to do my homework so my brother has to do it for me.»
Since Axios published a story titled «Trump Hates Amazon, Not Facebook,» Amazon has been the target of a firestorm launched from President Trump's Twitter account.
Until disclosures last month that Comey had maintained a file of memos detailing his communications with Trump, including a February meeting in which the president allegedly pressed the then - director to shut down the bureau's investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the former director had been at the center of firestorm for his pre-election handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
President Wild's statement was made in the context of a firestorm generated by the offer of a seven - figure gift if the university would revert to a nickname formerly used for its athletic teams.
Back in April, during Holy Week and at the height of the firestorm, a reporter with a national paper asked me in obviously innocent puzzlement, «We did Watergate and Nixon fell, we did Enron and it fell, how come the Church is still standing?»
Honestly, I suspect the practice (though potentially offensive in any context) only really became the subject of a firestorm because the church's baptism «projects» involved already sensitive territory, like the Holocaust.
More than 50 trackbacks (many of which are mentioned in Best for Babes anthology of the firestorm), more than 200 comments, and more than 10,000 page views within a few days.
NYCHA Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye has been at the center of a firestorm lately related to the public housing authority's lapses in lead paint inspections, violating federal and city laws, filing faulty documentation, and not telling NYCHA residents and the public about the
On Friday afternoon, The Wall Street Journal's Reid Epstein set off something of firestorm, albeit a brief one, on Twitter when he quoted presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a CNN interview.
In the wake of the firestorm going on at Penn State, Assemblymen Jim Tedisco and George Amedore are calling for the closing of what they say is a «dangerous loophole» in state law that doesn't require coaches and other college athletic officials to report possible sex - abuse cases.
«Apparently, he called the meeting in the face of the firestorm his decision has created.
Artist's impression of a firestorm of star birth deep inside core of young, growing elliptical galaxy.
Additionally, io9 uncovered some recent «Arrow» casting information that actress Emily Bett Rickards has been cast in the recurring role of Felicity Smoak — a character who was originally in the supporting cast of DC's «Fury of Firestorm
«Through the success of the inquiry learning and problem - based project of Firestorm, Stage 3 students proved that they can be the catalyst for the community of St Ives to consider the impact of bushfire.»
I have watched the development of this firestorm with more than passing interest, since I have been intimately involved with state education policy over the past 20 years and have also had in depth exposure to the literacy crisis in our schools, which is a key element of this raging debate over special education, as a founding director and past board chairman of a Houston area reading intervention program sponsored by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Education Fund.
Bowker, the US agency overseeing ISBN numbers, announced this week that a block of ten numbers would go from $ 250 to $ 295, which caused somewhat of a firestorm of criticism from both authors and industry watchers.
When playing as GDi build a firestorm generator and place a section of firestorm wall anywhere away from your base, NOD will never attack your base with missles as long as this section remains.
Things takes place in 2047, about sixteen years after the event of the Firestorm expansion pack for Tiberian Sun, and the story focuses on the Third Tiberium War which Nod provokes by destroying the space station Philadelphia.
Each major member of the Justice League makes an appearance, of course, but only true fans will recognise the likes of Firestorm, Blue Beetle and Swamp Thing.
One extremely constructive result of the campaign is that judges are now far more aware of the dangers of allowing children to be taken to particular countries if there is a real reason to suspect that the child may not be returned — and are aware of the firestorm of publicity that such cases can elicit.
Facebook has dealt with these kinds of firestorms before — it is still grappling with the aftershocks of the 2016 presidential election, for example, in which Russian sources used Facebook to spread disinformation and sow political unrest among voters.
Since the ignition of the firestorm over Facebook's handling of Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data, there has been one group that hasn't had pitchforks out for the social network: advertisers.
Mark Zuckerberg's prolonged silence in the midst of the firestorm surrounding Cambridge Analytica's access to Facebook Inc. user data has one expert questioning whether he is suited to be the...
It was these rich white dudes, wanting to be richer than they were, who invented derivative trading and all sorts of creative shenanigans to inflate the money supply, creating a sort of firestorm of buyer demand in the first five years of the last decade.
Martin sold a Port Hope house during the period of the firestorm.
We don't want our child to be in the middle of a firestorm!
Legends stars The Flash's Wentworth Miller (Leonard Snart / Captain Cold), Dominic Purcell (Mick Rory / Heat Wave) and Victor Garber (Dr. Martin Stein / one half of Firestorm).
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Sandra Fluke, the student who was at the center of a firestorm over contraception rules at her religious university, applauded the decision, saying in a statement, «I am very pleased that under these policies all women, regardless of what school they attend or where they work, will soon have affordable access to contraception.»
After his bravery put him in the midst of this firestorm, we caught up with Paul to get his perspective:
Facebook is already at the center of a firestorm over privacy issues, thanks in part to the site's changing policies on sharing user data with external sites including Pandora, Yelp and Microsoft Docs.
He has found out the hard way why the Tory chairman should be a street - fighter who can go on television and defend the Prime Minister in the middle of a firestorm.»»
In my hometown of New Orleans, the dispersal of MFP funding in our schools has recently caused a bit of a firestorm.
So apparently the little piece of information that I did not write my own query letter has touched off a bit of a firestorm.
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