Sentences with phrase «provoke public anger»

He said the Telegraph's report - which details a # 1,500 gardening bill and # 1,350 in house repairs - was presented to provoke public anger.

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While it may seek (in its sincere expressions) only neutrality toward religion, strict separationism in fact evidences a certain hostility toward religion — the effect of which is to deprive society of necessary moral and spiritual resources, to misinterpret and misrepresent the history of our culture, and to provoke anger and resentment among those who never consented to make our public life a «secular» enterprise.

The failure to fulfil their Olympic contract provoked anger amongst the public as members of the armed forces had to fill the security void, many of whom had come straight from deployment in Afghanistan.

The stringent new rules, which come in the wake of the expenses scandal, are likely to provoke further objections from MPs, but all three party leaders have indicated their willingness to uphold them, in a bid to allay public anger over the allowances debacle.

She is provoking anger from half the voting public because of a hard interpretation Brexit which she is anyway only adopting to fight off fundamentalists in her own party.

Within 12 hours an inquiry into what went wrong in the industry was underway, its public sessions over the next months provoking much handwringing from pollsters and anger from party strategists.

The pledge provoked anger from feminist pressure groups, who said it would tip justice and public opinion in favour of the defendants.

And the unions themselves didn't want to provoke a public split with a president their rank - and - file members adored, so they concentrated all their anger on Obama's Education secretaries, focusing their ire first on Arne Duncan, and then his successor John King, as though Obama himself were unaware of the reforms his Cabinet officials were carrying out on his behalf.