Sentences with phrase «provoked much comment»
... and an increase in the number who are gay... It provoked much comment when David Gold became the first openly gay Conservative candidate in 2001; since then only three Conservative MPs have come out as gay, but Nick Boles (pictured) is set to enter Parliament as MP for the ultra-safe Grantham and Stamford and at least half a dozen other openly gay candidates are poised to win seats this time.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/ Not exact matches
When he commented - in response to the usual question about why he was so unreasonably opposed to condoms as a means of fighting Aids - that in fact condomdistribution isn't helping, and may be worsening, the spread of HIV / AIDS in Africa, he provoked an avalanche of hostile comment, much of it almost hysterical in tone.
Your comment also deals with another question I have for a long time (not completly on topic I am afraid): If a CO2 - doubling provokes 3.7 W / m ^ 2 additional forcing and that leads (with feedbacks and so on) to about 3K temperature increase, how much temperature increase from the beginning of the instrumental record till now should we expect?
A teacher and an author, John will add much lustre to Slaw and certainly knows how to provoke us into a discussion: his mild, short first comment on CanLII has rapidly turned into the hottest thread here in quite a while.