Sentences with phrase «public outcry pushed»
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.
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After a two - year - long push by the Coast Guard to phase out the last of the lighthouse keepers prompted public outcry, the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans scrapped the plan.
The public outcry has also pushed up the regulatory costs to get a GM seed approved, Adamchak went on to say, meaning the institutions that can most easily pursue the technology are corporations.
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.
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.
The initial public outcry, coordinated global response, and swift market pull - back caused by the tariff tantrum all foreshadow the possibility of a similarly disturbing reality should Trump's protectionist push turn into a series of Mayweather - like blows.
They look at the governor, saying Cuomo has failed to capitalize on major public outcry over scandal and not used his bully pulpit to push reform.
Taken together, these data suggest that Wisconsin's Act 10 may have pushed some government workers to retire immediately, but once the public outcry died down, the public sector labor market more or less returned to normal.
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Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.
After publicly describing the bill as a priority last week, Governor McDonnell backtracked on his support for an initial version of the bill because of public outcry, and worked to push through a bill that still shames women seeking reproductive health care.