Sentences with phrase «public anger over»

As Facebook faces public anger over Cambridge Analytica harvesting personal information for the Trump campaign, it's been revealed that the social media giant allowed Barack Obama to do the same in 2012.

It was a subdued and measured way to end (for now) what has become one of Russia's most controversial disputes, an issue that, combined with the summer's devastating wildfires, has «heightened public anger over what is seen as government neglect of the country's forests,» RFE / RL wrote.

The proposed measures are at least in part the product of public anger over the financial crisis and the government's response, particularly the rescues of some individual financial firms.

One gets the sense that some of the vote on Amendment 66 was a carryover from the general public anger over how many measures, such as gun control, were forced through the legislature with little deliberation and no bipartisanship.

Tariq's intelligence and professionalism have helped him become a top detective at Scotland Yard, but when a suspected Muslim terrorist is shot and killed by police, Tariq is assigned to investigate in hopes of defusing public anger over the incident.

Population concerns may lurk within the public anger over illegal immigration or over the unwed California mother of octuplets earlier this year.

Public anger over cuts to tax credits, disability benefits, and changes to national insurance contributions for self - employed workers have driven the most significant government welfare policy U-turns in recent years.

Mr Appianing was however suspended on Thursday after public anger over his comments, but had insisted that he was still at post because there was no official communication about his suspension.

The procedures were used for what My Lyon described as «less serious» breaches of the rules regarding such matters as office stationery, but the public anger over expenses has moved Sir George to prevent any further damage to the standing of MPs, which is already at an all - time low following the scandal last year.

Give Melissa Mark - Viverito credit for cleverness: By having the City Council vote Friday on the outrageous anti-horse-carriage bill, she's minimized the public anger over the obscene council - pay - hike bill set for...

Criticism over 45 new peerages and public anger over rising political costs force PM to support curbs on Lords appointments

Ms Harman was revealing the government's plans for cleaning up Parliament in the wake of public anger over MPs» expenses claims.

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.

Although Rowland was convicted and spent 10 months in prison on a non-campaign related federal charge, public anger over political corruption in general pushed state lawmakers to pass major campaign reforms.

Sir Fred Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood, in a sign of the extent of public anger over bankers and the financial crisis.

Opposition parties had hoped to tap into public anger over inflation that peaked at over 40 percent last year, as well as low growth and high unemployment.

But those moves will do little to alleviate public anger over the rise, which is well above the one per cent pay rise being received by public sector workers.

«An unusual and well - heeled coalition, trying to tap public anger over the flood of money into politics, is pushing to enact a public financing system for elections in New York State,» reported the New York Times in a front - page article on the New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD) coalition.

Mark Carney should take heed of public anger over lower living standards or risk losing the Bank's independence, says former foreign secretary

The Prime Minister repeatedly defended her but admitted the party had experienced a «difficult week» and said he under - estimated the depth of the «raw» public anger over MPs» expenses.

They helped to bring people onto the streets, successfully tapping into widespread public anger over recent events, as well as long - term frustrations generated by sustained political and economic marginalisation and ongoing human rights violations.

CNN: Vatican shows rare public anger over leak The Vatican expressed rare public anger Wednesday in blasting the leaking of private papers from the pope's apartment, a scandal that observers say lifts the lid on a secret power struggle going on behind the closed doors of the Catholic Church.

Public anger over how tech giants stockpile and cash in on users» information exploded last month with the revelation that the data firm hired by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign — Cambridge Analytica — was able to access and evaluate the...

This reevaluation comes as public anger over political inaction on gun control shifts toward the American companies that profit from gun sales.

Higher food prices could pose a challenge to the government of the nation's president, Jacob Zuma, who is confronting widening public anger over rising income inequality and whose party, the African National Congress, is expected to face serious challenges in municipal elections this year.

Public anger over bad air and water quality in China has been rising in recent years, resulting in mass demonstrations.

Not exact matches

At times that anger boiled over into PBA (public displays of animosity) and tears.

Luther's final ten years were marred by infirmities and ill health which exacerbated his anger and led to outbursts of rage in tongue and pen, both in his continuing struggle with the papacy and in his depression over the excesses in public morality.

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

Public - sector labor unions quickly went to work expressing anger over the potential agreement for the pension amendment on Wednesday evening.

Trade unions from across the public sector are warning Labour that there is «widespread anger and resentment» over proposed reforms to the public sector pension schemes.

Paterson pledged the state will not have «anarchy» even if legislators decide at the last minute to reverse course and choose a government shutdown over angering the public sector workers.

The recall election spurred by anger over changes Walker pushed through the Legislature last year to effectively end collective bargaining rights for most public workers is the most prominent campaign in the nation after the presidential race.

Charles Kennedy described «the tidal wave of public anger» over the allegations expressed to fellow MPs.

«The apparent reluctance to act, displayed by the District Attorney's Office is a major source of our alarm over the failure to address the deep public anger and steeply eroding trust in our justice system.»

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.

Of course, it's precisely that sort of public interest which panicked Downing Street, as the sense of concern over plans to open up the NHS to private sector providers angered people up and down the country.

Ed Miliband asked him what lessons had been learned over the «deep concern and anger to the public».

Following the very real, visceral anger from the public over MPs expenses, all party leaders delivered messages to their electorate promising to restore their trust.

While managing to keep it together in public, the mayor is privately liable to let loose at staff: A 2008 Times article claims that as his previous term was expiring, the frustrated mayor could turn «suddenly red faced» with anger and openly berate staff over slight mishaps.

By that time, the anger over the expenses scandal had turned partly to boredom, the public becoming desensitised to the crookedness and low level criminality of their legislators.

It's a festering anger, built up over the years by a smoke and mirrors government working to keep the political class comfortably feeding at the public trough.»

Quinn's biggest strategic error was her inability to craft an effective or even a coherent response to the palpable voter anger over her instrumental role in enacting legislation that overturned two successive public referenda limiting the terms of the mayor and Council members.

Batra has previously gone public with his anger over a commission decision that effectively allowed the Committee to Save New York, a deep - pocketed Cuomo ally, to avoid disclosing its donors and expenditures in detail.

Superintendent Christina Kishimoto — whose employment in this capacity with the Hartford Public Schools is over at the end of this school year and who has had her request to no longer be evaluated by the Board of Education granted — has angered a number of parents at the Clark School in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter school.

Anger and frustration on the part of parents, teachers and supporters of public education is bubbling over.

Gabriel's anger over his father's public denouncement of his novel sends him on a quest to work loose his father's reasons for doing so.

Though it is still in development, some of the anger from players and Kickstarter backers has raised questions over how studios should approach making games in the public eye, and how they inform paying consumers of features and the development roadmap.

In the past 3 years, in Egypt (Tahrir), Turkey (Taksim), Ukraine (Maidan), the United States (Wall Street), Venezuela (Altamira), and many others countries, people have expressed their anger by taking over iconic public squares and plaza, and naming their movement after this symbolic act.

After all, a free, accurate, and objective press is widely regarded as the cornerstone of a free society and integral to upholding an informed public — as opposed to a venue for intentionally stirring up fear and anger over that which is unknown or uncertain.