Sentences with phrase «public outcry in»

Priest has welcomed the recent public outcry in Australia condemning very high profile incidents of racism, such as on public transport or the sporting field, but says there's also a risk that people are tempted to see them as «isolated».

There was public outcry in response; within weeks Facebook had made users» likes private by default.

Zuckerberg's post came following public outcry in response to a report last weekend from The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by the Trump campaign, gained access to private information of more than 50 million Facebook users, including their profiles, locations and what they like.

On the other side, researchers have been hesitant to access TK because of the potential for public outcry in response to biopiracy and unauthorized / offending uses.

The scandal caused a public outcry in support of the corridor.

In May 1915, Great Britain, France, and Russia advised the Young Turk leaders that they would be held personally responsible for this crime against humanity, and there was a vocal public outcry in the United States against the mistreatment of the Armenians.

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK - Oct 24 - The launch of Ashley Madison has sparked a public outcry in conservative Singapore.

In view of the public outcry in Kaduna State on the demolition of houses by governor El - Rufai, the state government has commenced the assessment of owners...

This was even as he condemned the act which had attracted public outcry in the last forty eight hours.

There are some major differences in the rights that slaves were granted by their owners in Rome, circa 40 AD, and the rights granted to the slaves that are sold in Vancouver BC in 2000 AD, and the slaves sold at public outcry in Riyadh Saudia Arabia in 2010 AD, and the slaves that were sold in Washington DC in 1850.

Public outcry in Germany put an end to T - 4 in 1941, but the methods were transferred to Dachau and Auschwitz, where the authorities applied them to other so - called inferiors.

Not exact matches

Arguably, Chinese sentiment still hasn't recovered in the wake of the negative public outcry provoked by CNOOC's run at Unocal in 2005.

The public outcry led the company to post a letter of apology on its website: «The officer in question has acknowledged that he made a serious mistake and has apologized for his conduct.

It took its logos off the building and shut off the marquee lights — though after years of public outcry, AMC began turning on the lights in the evenings.

The #DeleteUber campaign on Facebook and Twitter erupted when Uber was accused of breaking a taxi strike in New York, right around the time Kalanick was taking heat for sitting on the president's business - advisory council in the midst of public outcry regarding Trump's travel ban.

When that led to a public outcry and draft bills in Congress, they came up with the idea charging websites for a fast lane to ISP subscribers.

The outcry after the shooting has sparked public pressure on corporations who offer discounts to the NRA as well as asset managers who invest in gun manufacturers.

The public outcry over the spill is perfectly in order.

Facebook, which has consistently reported stronger - than - expected earnings over the past two years, has faced public outcry over its role in Russia's alleged influence over the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with gun makers following public outcry sparked by the school shooting in Florida.

The net - neutrality laws passed during the Obama administration, formally known as the 2015 Open Internet Order, were approved in a 3 - 2 vote along party lines in February 2015, after months of heated debate and public outcries.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

Paul Callan, a civil and criminal trial lawyer in New York, said the public outcry over Dao «s treatment would likely push the airline to a quick and generous settlement.

As Facebook grapples with a backlash over its role in spreading disinformation, an internal dispute over how to handle the threat and the public outcry is resulting in the departure of a senior executive.

However, the state eventually reversed course after public outcry and the city later lost an appeal in court.

Yet we hear precious little outcry from the public or in the media, and this relative silence only encourages those controlling the levers of power to continue this development.»

In response to public outcry over this situation, Industry Minister Jim Prentice's position was to, «leave the matter between consumers on the one hand and Internet service providers on the other» — effectively, no position at all.

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

This misjudgment (perhaps initially due to management downplaying the incidents) could explain why the board got engaged so late in the process, and why they did not impose penalties on executives until after the first scathing Congressional hearing and weeks of public outcry.

After Cambridge Analytica and the continued information drip out of Facebook over what Russia did in 2016, public outcry may also push reluctant legislators to be more open to acting.

Postal Doors Staying Open Faced with outcry from the public and in Congress, the Postal Service backed off plans that called for closing as many as 3,700 rural post offices starting next week.

As if that wasn't enough to invoke a public outcry, this month, the New York Times also reported that Uber leveraged a tool called «Greyball» to help its drivers evade enforcement in cities where Uber operations are deemed illegal.

In June, Beijing banned online loans to college after a public outcry over students falling victim to aggressive debt recovery tactics — including requiring nude photos as collateral — practiced by loan sharks.

VICTORIA — A plan to cut chemotherapy services for cancer patients in Nanaimo that was reversed only after public outcry shows B.C. Liberal cuts are leading to bad policy decisions that will hurt patients, say New Democrats.

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.

Honestly who gives a $ # i +... Good chance the public outcry of this «controversy», as is so many things now in this world are, wont make it past next week and everyone will go back to enjoying their morning chicken biscuits.

Brossard's would - be assassins have been hired by the big fish who have been his longtime protectors and patrons, themselves guilty of «crimes against humanity» under Vichy, who fear that Brossard's arrest and trial will result in a public outcry over their own cases.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

That version, which passed California's state senate in May, prompted the previously mentioned public outcry.

A public outcry is more a gaggle of people in stark protest for something.

Jocelyn was released after public outcry, and after al - Qaeda higher - ups told AQIM that women were not to be involved in war.

This decision led to public outcry — the service received 95,000 comments in less than two months — and the Service reversed itself, whereupon the FFRF sued.

Except, of course, imagine the outcry at the school if a Catholic priest, appointed director, had proudly said that the job made him a proponent of Catholicism in the public sphere.

For example, the EPA just increased the limit of glyphosate allowed in food in 2013, despite a loud public outcry.

The biggest food manufacturers in the world are also putting aside corn ingredients based on the public outcry about GMO - infestation of this crop.

So while the hypocrisy you point out is valid and it makes me angry all over again about the ouster of this team's architect, I'm cautious in embracing a public outcry against it.

Perhaps the main issue with diving in some of the cases with the most public outcry has been the idea that the diver has gained something by performing the act.

Earlier this year, public outcry erupted over the use of ammonia - treated beef that critics called «pink slime» in ground beef.

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But a public outcry pushed the park board to reconsider and decide that the new skate park should not be located in any of the city's 60 neighborhood parks that are tucked in residential areas.