Sentences with phrase «public outcry forced»

Public outcry forced the company to backtrack on its new policy the following week, but it was too late to stop it from looking as a silly as the Trix rabbit.

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The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

As it happens, enough people did sit down, examine their consciences and then stood right back up again: the public outcry eventually forced Steinberg's clinic to suspend the service.

President Muhammadu Buhari, himself a Fulani, has responded to public outcry and ordered the security forces to crack down on the cattle raiders.

Will there be sufficient public outcry to force them to think again?

Time will tell if there will be a sufficient public outcry to force them to think again.

Those actions and other changes resulted from a task force convened by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in response to public outcry.

Wasn't it employers who forced employees to work in such unsafe conditions that in 1970 Congress created, and President Nixon signed into law, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration after public outcry against rising injury and death rates on the job?

Following public outcry over cases of Police misconduct and brutality, Police authorities at both the Police Service Commission (PSC) and Force Headquarters have commenced investigations...

When British forces withdrew from Iraq, a similarly lackadaisical approach was taken - until public and political outcry forced the Labour Government to let them in.

So the pledge by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to heed public opinion when naming celestial bodies is in - keeping with the zeitgeist — even if its hand was forced by the good - natured outcry over its earlier decision to ignore a bid, led by Star Trek star William Shatner, to name a Plutonian moon «Vulcan» (see «Official planet namer listens to voice of the people «-RRB-.

This public pressure and outcry forced a 20 year - long staffer to step down.

In 2009, after massive public outcry regarding puppy mills and insufficient animal welfare standards in Quebec, the Charest government pledged to address the crisis and launched a special companion animal task force under Agriculture Quebec to identify solutions to animal welfare problems in the Province.

In 2009, due to massive public outcry regarding the insufficient animal welfare standards in Quebec, the Charest government established a special task force under MAPAQ to improve legislation and enforcement in the Province.

This is gaming in 2017, and when misinformed public outcry can force developers to change the game they've worked so hard to create, that's not a win for us, it breeds chaos.