Sentences with phrase «of political outrage»

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Outraged by the scandal, former leader Mahathir Mohammad came out of political retirement and the opposition has united behind him in the national elections.

The issue of data privacy came to the fore after revelations in 2013 from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden of mass U.S. surveillance caused political outrage in Europe

In the case of people using Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel as a means of voicing political outrage, users are finding creative ways to illustrate an important point.

Following outrage across the political spectrum in Britain, a representative for May condemned Trump's tweets on Wednesday in a rare criticism of an American president by a British prime minister.

The kind where we spend more energy on outrage and mockery of our political rivals than anything else.

My blog post a year ago called it A Very Political Budget: the document sought to institutionalize Harper's sense of outrage at Barack Obama's decision to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

There would also probably no shortage of public outrage, with some claiming that the government is trying to censor certain political beliefs.

Public reaction to this complex picture has been reminiscent of the last time there was widespread outrage about social media in political life — the revelations made by Edward Snowden in June 2013.

Cambridge Analytica shutting down in wake of Facebook data outrage Firm had $ 15 million in U.S. political work in the 2016 election cycleCambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, is shutting down following the disclosure of its misuse of Facebook data.

Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder Echelon Insights, a Republican - leaning digital analytics and research firm, said the public outrage this week over the disclosures about Cambridge Analytica «feels like a double standard» against the backdrop of how the Obama campaign and other Democratic and Republican political operatives sought to use Facebook data during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

So FDR's Second Bill is the darling of SOME liberal academics and the target of OUTRAGE of some libertarian / conservative commentators, but it doesn't drive our mainstream political life.

He's just a political celebrity who has to rely on keeping his audience in a perpetual state of outrage so they won't realize he's just hate - mongering rabble rouser, coward, and bully.

The outrage in Arizona has sparked another cycle of mutual recriminations between liberals and conservatives that points up what seems to be a growing chasm running through our political culture.

Coulter's tweet was met with bipartisan outrage, drawing social media ire from both sides of the political aisle for its insensitivity.

The problem is that the political mood now of «outrage» and «shock» looks all too shallow.

The faux scandal and manufactured outrage arising from these two events highlights a worrying trend in modern political discourse: the prioritisation of the trivial over the substantial and of personalities over ideas.

«You've confused a football metaphor for a political argument,» I felt like shouting, but the moment passed, one new outrage of mediocrity piling on top of the next.

Podemos makes no secret of its foundation upon public anger either, it aims to «turn outrage into political change», as the party manifesto states.

The Windrush scandal is a stain on our national conscience and there has rightly been a great deal of political and moral outrage, but what happened to the Windrush children is no accident.

Comedy, she adds, could form part of a counter culture to the permanently outraged dichotomies of the political spectrum.

The Windrush scandal is a stain on our national conscience and there has rightly been a great deal of political handwringing and moral outrage.

[10] One needs only broach the subject of politics in a college dorm, in a taxi, or in an off - licence to discern the collective outrage that Cameroonians express towards a corrupt, dysfunctional and prejudicial political system.

Many of us spent the weekend glued to Twitter, which was simultaneously the fastest source of news, a place to share in outrage and, unfortunately, the staging ground for the worst aspects of political debate.

Making an audience laugh in the aisles while smuggling in deep political points is not as easy as it seems, and In The Loop's outrage at the events which led to the Iraq war shine through every minute of the film's running time.

One senior public servant — a man of no political party, and who had previously been on the fence — texted me after the US intervention and said he had been so outraged at President Obama's «back of the queue» remark that he had instantly decided to vote Leave.

Given political conditions in the Capital Region, ethical outrage by the Soares opponents over funding irregularities evoked a certain degree of mirth.

The faux outraged mob have forced the resignation of a bag - carrier before now for making crap jokes about Her Maj on the grounds that his position in Parliament made it a scandal, and a couple of political opponents were having a slow afternoon.

Fellow Ghanaians, let me conclude by saying how outraged I am by the defamatory comments from my political opponents, some of whose patriotism can be so easily questioned, that the sovereignty of this country has been sold by my government and myself.

The media and Jezza's political opponents are expressing outrage and horror at the prospect of an early «brutal» reshuffle.

A senior lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo seems to have been outraged by the arguments put up by people defending the huge size of President Nana Akufo - Addo's government.

Judging from the popular support the former Attorney General, Hon. Martin Amidu's anti-corruption stance gathered across the political divide, and the outrage caused by revelations of the Woyome, ISOFOTON, SADA, GYEEDA, SUBA, metro mass bus rebranding scandals, there is little doubt that, voters will support any manifesto pledge that commits to the anti-corruption crusade, and to separating the prosecutorial powers from the ministerial functions of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General's Department.

Such a move would be a democratic outrage, but that won't stop the SNP making political capital out of the idea.

My problem with all of this is that it's yet another lobotomy for our political debate, fuelled by the increasingly common spasms of outrage in both traditional and social media.

The real issue of outrage in the community is that Linares and Rangel made a backroom political deal, with Linares endorsing Rangel and, in exchange, Rangel endorsing Linares and his daughter.

«Let me state how outraged I am by the defamatory comments from my political opponents, some of whose patriotism can be easily questioned that the sovereignty of this country has been sold by my government and myself.»

«It is not enough for their political friends to simply feign outrage on the day of another indictment,» said Adam Haber, a Democrat running for Martins» seat in the 7th District.

After a summer of political bickering that crippled the New York State Senate, has public outrage...

Farage once again proved an effective channel for their outrage, lacerating Nick Clegg as the representative of an out - of - touch and unresponsive political class.

And they are outraged and disheartened by federal and state investigations into alleged political corruption that have cast a harsh light on some of «the Cuomo alumni,» as they're known.

But after much societal and political outrage, the composition of the committee was changed to give smaller parties more clout, bringing together opposite interests ranging from the Greens» commitment to proportional representation to the Conservatives» reluctance to change anything.

But as outraged citizens accused both parties of trying to manipulate the vote, Baltimore and Charles Vest, his counterpart at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took a more scientific approach: they assembled a team of computer scientists, mechanical engineers and political scientists to reengineer the election process.

Shkreli's defiant decision to raise the price of Daraprim, a drug that dates to the 1950s and is the standard treatment for a life - threatening parasitic infection, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight, helped spark more than a year of public outrage and political fulminating against high drug prices.

I'm more horrified of all of the things he said as part of a political campaign prior to this tape, that the same outraged politicians turned a blind eye to.

It's here that the film unconsciously divulges its smug political superiority, as Ruth gets to take out all of her progressive outrage on Christian's parents.

Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (Director: Jean Carlomusto)-- Author, activist, and playwright Larry Kramer is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary gay America, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and grief that inspired gay men and lesbians to fight for their lives.

«To The Wonder» (Terrence Malick) «Cloud Atlas» (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer) «Argo» (Ben Affleck) «The Silver Linings Playbook» (David O Russell) «Love, Marilyn» (Liz Garbus) «Free Angela And All Political Prisoners» (Shola Lynch) «The Place Beyond The Pines» (Derek Cianfrance) «Midnight's Children» (Deepa Mehta) «Hyde Park On Hudson» (Roger Michell) «Great Expectations» (Mike Newell) «Inescapable» (Rubba Nadda) «Twice Born» (Sergio Castellitto) «English Vinglish» (Gauri Shinde) «The Perks Of Being A Wallflower» (Stephen Chbosky) «Thanks For Sharing» (Stuart Blumberg) «End Of Watch» (David Ayer) «Imogene» (Robert Puccini and Shari Springer Berman) «A Late Quartet» (Yaron Zilberman) «Much Ado About Nothing» (Joss Whedon) «Frances Ha» (Noah Baumbach) «The Time Being» (Nenad Cicin - Sain) «Writers» (Josh Boone) «At Any Price» (Ramin Bahrani) «Venus And Serena» (Maiken Baird) «Byzantium» (Neil Jordan) «Quartet» (Dustin Hoffman) «Ginger And Rosa» (Sally Potter) «A Liar's Autobiography» (Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson) «Foxfire» (Laurnet Cantet) «In The House» (Francois Ozon) «The Impossible» (JA Bayona) «Hannah Arendt (Margarethe Von Trotta) «Mr. Pip» (Andrew Adamson) «Capital» (Costa - Gavras) «The Attack» (Ziad Doueriri) «Zaytoun» (Eran Riklis) «The Deep» (Baltasar Kormakur) «Dreams For Sale (Nishikawa Miwa) «The Last Supper» (Lu Chuan) «Anna Karenina» (Joe Wright) «The Reluctant Fundamentalist» (Mira Nair) «The Company You Keep» (Robert Redford) «Jayne Mansfield's Car» (Billy Bob Thornton) «A Royal Affair» (Nikolai Arcel) «Dangerous Liasons» (Hur Ji - Ho) «Thermae Romae» (Hideki Takeuchi) «Caught In THe Web» (Chen Kaige) «Dormant Beauty» (Marco Belloccchio) «Everybody Has A Plan» (Ana Piterbarg w / Viggo Mortensen) «Kon - Tiki» (Espen Sandberg) «Reality» (Matteo Garrone) «A Few Hours Of Spring» (Stephan Brize) «The Hunt» (Thomas Vintenberg) «The Iceman» (Ariel Vromen) «Lore» (Cate Shortland) «No» (Pablo Larrain) «Outrage Beyond» (Takeshi Kitano) «Rust And Bone» (Jacques Audiard) «The Sapphires» (Wayne Blair) «Tai Chi O» (Stephen Fung)

Strong always lends the battle - hardened New Yorker a certain dignity in her targeted outrage, even as she confesses, «I'm kind of a political junkie — and a regular junkie.»

There is nothing particularly wrong with «Milk,» but for a movie about political activism and gay rights, it lacks the outrage and sense of injustice that oozes from the source material.

There has always been a well - developed moaning culture in education, but there is no escaping the outrage among school leaders about the lack of political response to funding worries.

You rode out into the dark outrage of others, saw human loss shaped towards political ends, and though you hoped for the occasional gleam of uncontaminated compassion it seemed that the world was dimming.