Sentences with phrase «public backlash at»

Rehana Azam, GMB National Secretary for Public Services, said: «Justine Greening has serious and urgent questions to answer in the face of the huge public backlash at the government's funding cuts.

Not exact matches

Despite Vogel's involvement in the case that took away 18 years of Avery's life, the attorney does not seem to be experiencing the same level of backlash as Kratz (perhaps because the state's failures in 1985 have been well known to the public for more than a decade at this point).

Archer toyed with a sale process last year but put that on ice when sentiment soured around the dairy sector after the troubles at Victoria's Murray Goulburn and the public backlash against private label milk at the big supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths.

It is funny that Greg Schiano whose name is tied to the Sandusky situation goes for a job at Tennessee and has Meyer and Belichick vouch for him and all but clear his name but there was public outrage and it was all over the web but I haven't seen tons and tons of backlash on Briles.

Remember: This was supposedly agreed on last year, but the Assembly blamed at passing what the Senate had already approved, thanks to backlash from labor unions — and their elected official allies — that the measure was too broad and would hurt low - level public employees.

Public Advocate Tish James, often at the vanguard of the left, has encountered backlash online for supporting one of the IDC's newest members, Marisol Alcantara, in a primary last year.

After a fierce public backlash, plus disapproval from the president - elect, the House GOP reversed course and withdrew the rules change that would have gutted the Office of Congressional Ethics, according to members who were present at the emergency GOP meeting today.

And a lower safety standard could mean more accidents at first — and a public backlash, says Azim Shariff, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine.

Contrary to widespread view that the recession led to a substantial backlash against immigration, Professor Timothy Hatton, at the University of Exeter, found that the two most influential variables shifting public opinion on immigration are actually the share of immigrants in the population and the share of social benefits.

The public lack of grief on the part of the Royals brought about a great backlash against them, and fearing additional public resentment, Queen Elizabeth II, at the behest of current Prime Minister Tony Blair, agreed to some compromises in order to preserve the institution of the Royal Family, including a public television address and walking among the people, acts which were exceedingly rare for the Queen of England.

There's been a backlash against these films in recent years (partly levelled at the public school, Oxbridge provenance of the filmmakers), but the fact that most of them ride high on this list suggests they're still credited with initiating a new age of storytelling in British cinema, both in terms of the range, social and geographical, of subjects and a style of filmmaking that honours realism above all else.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

In that case, Senate Republicans sparked controversy by rewriting a House bill governing public access to playgrounds to speed more cash to charters, although House Republicans balked at the backlash last summer.

If nothing else, that big majorities of both parties in Congress felt the need to greatly ease federal force in elementary and secondary education — at least overt federal force — is a powerful testament to the breadth of the public backlash against federally driven standardization, testing, and «accountability.»

Also consider a discussion of the initial failure to build at Ground Zero, of the entire Drawing Center controversy, and of a backlash — all in context of New York City as an intersection of public and private spaces.

When I read announcements at that time, I don't recall any which explored public backlash against Radford's role in the chilling controversy where thirty Greenpeace activists were arrested and held in Russia for a protest stunt at a Russian oil drilling rig.

A number of legal bloggers roundly condemned Jones Day for bringing the suit, with Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy leading the backlash with his post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog in which he said that the lawsuit deserved a prize for «grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn't like.»

How any society tolerates disfavoured notions reflects where we are at in progressing forward, and by firing him, Google are acknowledging that women are just as capable as men, and staying true to their values... or did Google buckle under the pressure that Damore expressed arguably sexist views, so out of fear of public retaliation, they chose to fire him and avoid a negative backlash on their business?

At the time, the country's justice minister publicly spoke of considering a ban on cryptocurrency trading and quickly garnered a major backlash from the public and other ministries within the government.

The backlash against Facebook has sparked the #leavefacebook movement, and pressure from politicians, the media and the public will require Zuckerberg to do a lot more than take out newspaper ads, as he did in the UK at the weekend.