Sentences with phrase «political uproar»

The female roles are (unfortunately) secondary to all other plot elements, but the film still warrants a viewing if but for the political uproar it brought about after exposing the chain gang system.

Chandler points out that Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders «provoked a political uproar in his state by addressing an antiabortion rally on the steps of the state capitol.»

The present political uproar over abortion law in Ireland» one of only three western European nations, together with Poland and Malta, which continue to ban the practice» seems to have arrived with similar ferocity.

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Facebook users, advertisers and investors have been in an uproar for months over a series of scandals, most recently privacy practices that allowed political consultancy Cambridge Analytica to obtain personal information on 50 million Facebook members.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

If this wasn't enough to get environmentalist in an uproar the government then proposed changes to the income tax act that would require that that charities disclose foreign sources of funds and demonstrate that the organization satisfied the 10 per cent rule for political activities.

Despite all the uproar surrounding our presidential candidates, changing your investment strategy based on your political beliefs is likely to do more harm than good.

The researcher whose work is at the center of the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica data analysis and political advertising uproar has revealed that his method worked much like the one Netflix uses to recommend movies.

Amid the uproar Wednesday, Mourdock sought to clarify his comments, saying he was sorry if he offended anyone but said his comments were twisted and distorted for political gain.

Washington (CNN)- The uproar last week over a proposed campaign ad highlighting President Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, lit up political circles before organizers finally backed off the idea.

Lewis called the uproar over longer school days and teacher pay a «political issue» not driven by the new leadership at CPS.

The big change, causing the uproar and hysteria in the Western media, is the fact that the Chinese Communist Party maintains political power even after 40 years of spectacularly successful capitalist economy.

They would be in uproar upon learning that a mob had tried to physically force its way into an American television studio and blocked the roads outside, trying to prevent the filming of a political debate which featured a robust and forthright atheist.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan's abrupt decision to dismiss the House chaplain triggered an uproar on Friday over religion, pitting Republican against Republican and offering Democrats a political opportunity in a year already moving their way.

The PRC has a very disruptive political issue with arsenic - contaminated rice, and the last thing the powers - that - be need is an uproar over a constant dribble of poison which multiplies risk of cancer in the general population.

Political leaders and public servants in the Member States and the EU institutions were ill prepared for this emotional uproar.

When Repower / Senvion was spruiking the virtues of its planned 600Mw Ceres wind farm here in SA in 2012 its then head honcho «Pretty boy» in the face of an uproar from local citizens declared at a business lunch in Adelaide that «Opposition to wind farm development in South Australia is driven by political ideology dressed up as a grass roots movement.»

The proximate cause of this unusual Sunday uproar was Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.'s skillfully timed news release saying that if Canada can't quickly come up with a way to silence political opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project in British Columbia, it'll pull the plug on the plan by the end of next month.

If anything, the shift to the algorithmic feed caused much more of an uproar than any political issue or privacy scandal.

Of course, if Twitter banned Trump — effectively taking a political (or some would say, moral) position on the matter — there would be uproar about that, too.

Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Over the past two weeks, those practices have caused an uproar internationally over the compromise of data belonging to at least 50 million users at the hands of Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that worked for the Trump campaign and simultaneously aided one «Leave» campaign during the UK's 2016 EU referendum.

The researcher whose work is at the center of the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica data analysis and political advertising uproar...