Sentences with phrase «public disgust»

"Public disgust" refers to the intense feeling of strong dislike or revulsion that is shared by many people within a community or society regarding a particular issue, event, or behavior that is considered offensive, immoral, or unacceptable. Full definition
Although the world is currently in the 21st century, some people find breastfeeding in public disgusting, weird, or shameful.
Small wonder then that there is such widespread public disgust with the whole business.
Cuomo seized on public disgust with Wall Street in 2009, when he demanded information about bonuses paid to 73 executives at insurance giant AIG, which had been bailed out by taxpayers six months earlier.
Mr. Koch said widespread public disgust over the stalemate in Albany provided a window for producing «a new government that will make us proud.»
A proven model — proven, that is, by billionaire Peter Thiel — for bankrupting news companies and driving them out of business by using the court system and jury trials, which can leverage public disgust for The Media (see no. 6 above) into jury awards that defendants can not possibly pay.
Republican victories in state legislatures and mounting public disgust over late - term abortions like those performed by Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell have given new momentum to anti-abortion activists.
Opposition leaders, who have lost repeatedly since Chavez's first election victory 17 years ago, were jubilant, even though their victory was due mainly to public disgust at Venezuela's deep economic recession.
And the MPs expenses scandal - and the accompanying public disgust - may mean that poor conduct at PMQs feeds into a wider perception that our parliamentarians are in a Westminster bubble filled with the hot air and sound of their own voices.
In my opinion, the best way to ensure updates is to have widespread public disgust for a company's behavior.
Hopelessness and lack of confidence, spending dominating policymaking conversations, angst at all levels of government, and a public disgusted, disconnected and disappointed — descriptors of our current economic situation?
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