Sentences with phrase «outcry if»

Mind you, as Christie Blatchford said in The National Post a week later, imagine the outcry if that statement was made by a man; a «paunchy male defence lawyer,» or a «boy prosecutor» who would have lost his head and his job the next day.

Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates.

But it might be enlightening to ask the reverse question: would there be the same outcry if we expected our kids to do really well?

Crawford believes there would have been more of an outcry if the board had suggested demolishing the historic buildings.

Garry Shandling and Florence Henderson are known far more for their television work than their film appearances; there will be an outcry if one or both are omitted, but the Academy can certainly make the case that they are more rightly saluted on the Emmys.

«I had some trepidation about the Christ parallels, but I hoped there would be little outcry if I handled it tastefully, since I was not really making any serious statement on religion,» he told Back Issue!

Imagine the local outcry if an Arab hospital were to transplant an Arab heart into a Jew.

Imagine the outcry if Japan or the Soviet Union funded the Republicans or Democrats to the tune of $ 1 billion.

Could you imagine the international outcry if the US were to threaten to do this to peacefully practicing Muslim imams and clerics?

Judges must stop worrying about public outcries if they remove a child from the care of a vicious programming parent who is showing their hostility toward the former partner.

Not exact matches

If you read through even a few of the thousands of posts and Twitter comments and related outcry about Taylor's departure, and the subsequent shut - down of popular threads or «sub-Reddits» like r / movies and r / music, it becomes obvious that for many of the site's users, the issue is about more than just the firing of one employee.

While collecting this type of information can be valuable to business owners, if the collective outcry over the NSA's data - mining efforts is any indicator then customers may have a negative knee - jerk reaction to having their movements tracked and recorded every time they go to a coffee shop or pass through a hotel lobby.

As if that wasn't enough to invoke a public outcry, this month, the New York Times also reported that Uber leveraged a tool called «Greyball» to help its drivers evade enforcement in cities where Uber operations are deemed illegal.

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.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

If lots of Christians raised a public outcry over this, then yes, they'd probably take it down.

If you took half the stuff that Obama has done and said and attributed it to Bush, there would be a HUGE outcry.

But if a newborn is found in a plastic bag in a dumpster there is an outcry of how could a mother do this to her child.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

You bet if this was Christmas, you would hear a public outcry!!

I bet if Chick - Fil - A gave donations of food to an anti-Christian or an atheist organization the outcry would be tremendous — It seems that it is perfectly acceptable to insult the gay community, however.

If, therefore, the province als can clearly evince their charges against the Christians, so as to answer before the tribunal, let them pursue this course only, but not by mere pet itions, and mere outcries against the Christians.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

If they don't, if they succumb to the outcry of what almost inevitably is a vocal minority, they are teaching precisely the wrong lesson — that any decision by any duly constituted body can be reversed, if only you're loud enougIf they don't, if they succumb to the outcry of what almost inevitably is a vocal minority, they are teaching precisely the wrong lesson — that any decision by any duly constituted body can be reversed, if only you're loud enougif they succumb to the outcry of what almost inevitably is a vocal minority, they are teaching precisely the wrong lesson — that any decision by any duly constituted body can be reversed, if only you're loud enougif only you're loud enough.

But if this is «what actually happens», it's hard to resist drawing the conclusion that in the outcry against Dawkins this summer we saw an extraordinary moment when society expressed moral outrage about itself; when we were provoked by one of our own common practices.

Except, of course, imagine the outcry at the school if a Catholic priest, appointed director, had proudly said that the job made him a proponent of Catholicism in the public sphere.

``... I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me.»

And the LORD said, «Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.»

If a leader were to present to the pope a crucifix in the shape of a swastika, world outcry would ensue.

The Blazers lost much of a decade, even if the outcry in response to the program's end might've given them more visibility than even Fisher would've.

If it wasn't for the outcries against the boss and the Gunners by the Gooners, they might not have won the FA Cup they won last season.

Imagine the outcry today if a team like Pitt — one loaded with talent and quarterbacked by Dan Marino — had only loss, on the road against an excellent Florida State team, and got a trip to El Paso for its troubles.

But if it raises enough of an outcry, all the better.

If HIV affected 30 % of the population you would bet there would be an outcry for the government to do something about this problem.

This is why there was such an outcry for some kind of paper trail on electronic machines when they were first implemented without them, especially after demonstrations of how insecure they were came to light - so they could be hand - verified, if necessary.

I would expect outcry from the taxpayers if a president decided to live in another place because they preferred it to the White House, especially if that is outside of DC.

Despite the government's constitutional arguments, the Conservatives warned yesterday of a «public outcry» if Mr Brown does not call a referendum.

Time will tell if there will be a sufficient public outcry to force them to think again.

Can you imagine the outcry by Alesi and his Republican cronies if some criminal sued the police for shooting him as he tried to escape?!

How loud would the public outcry be if only one in 10 assaults on our city streets, where the assailant was clearly identified, were prosecuted?

It's unclear if the outcry will kill the bill or if it will be enacted.

If parliament shut down for six months ahead of every general election, just imagine the public outcry from the already disgruntled voters.

Imagine the outcry there would have been from Labour politicians six months ago if David Cameron, the Leader of the Opposition, had gone out and endorsed a struggling Prime Minister somewhere else in the world, a week before polling day in that country's general election.

But if today's headlines are anything to go by, that won't slow the public outcry against it.

«Unfortunately, if there is no public outcry about this dangerous situation, the NRC will continue to bend to the industry's wishes.»

So the pledge by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to heed public opinion when naming celestial bodies is in - keeping with the zeitgeist — even if its hand was forced by the good - natured outcry over its earlier decision to ignore a bid, led by Star Trek star William Shatner, to name a Plutonian moon «Vulcan» (see «Official planet namer listens to voice of the people «-RRB-.

Yet environmentalists behave as if the opposite were true: every time a change occurs that pushes a species nearer to extinction there is an outcry.

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If the prevailing theme of a year's films represents the artistic community's outcry for what is missing, surely this is it.

The band's ordeal follows recent outcry surrounding the SXSW film festival performance agreement, which threatened to deport performers from outside the country if they played shows not authorized by the festival.