Sentences with phrase «public outrage after»

There has been public outrage after the State Labour Court...

Hogg, former Tory MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, caused public outrage after claiming # 2,200 from the public purse to clean the moat on his country estate.

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That has been a sharp contrast to other recent mass shootings where public debate quickly moved on after the perfunctory «thoughts and prayers» offered by many Republican politicians and outrage expressed by Democrats.

The email came after Kalanick failed to assuage public outrage over Uber's decision to turn off surge pricing at JFK International Airport at a time when taxis refused to stop there in solidarity with a protest against the order.

Zuckerberg and Sandberg, on the other hand, were at first nowhere to be found, dispatching instead their vice president and deputy general counsel to address employees after days of public outrage.

The sale of nearly $ 2 million in corporate stock by high - level Equifax executives shortly after the company learned of a major data breach has sparked public outrage that could turn into another hurdle for the credit rating agency.

The public should be outraged that six years after the greatest crash since 1929, we are looking at the same systemic vulnerability.

Oddities tended to attract an undue share of public attention: there was amusement over the King and Queen of England eating hot dogs while visiting President Roosevelt at Hyde Park; outrage when the President changed the date of Thanksgiving from November 30 to November 23; excitement when Al Capone was released from a federal penitentiary after serving more than seven years for income tax evasion.

Trade unions reacted with outrage today after a prominent right - wing thinktank branded 400,000 public sector job losses «easily manageable».

The congressman has also shied away from public appearances in recent weeks, after he found himself the target of a national wave outrage over Republican promises to roll back the Affordable Care Act in February.

One senior public servant — a man of no political party, and who had previously been on the fence — texted me after the US intervention and said he had been so outraged at President Obama's «back of the queue» remark that he had instantly decided to vote Leave.

The suggested raise for legislators is even higher than a similar proposal last year that died quickly after public outrage.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

But public outrage, palpable after Silver's and Skelos» convictions, fueled the passage of the proposed amendment twice through the State Legislature in 2016 and 2017, as required, so it could be put before voters Nov. 7.

Public outrage ensued after it emerged last month Google and HMRC reached an agreement that saw the American firm pay # 130m in backdated tax since 2005.

Chancellor Georg e Osborne had triggered outrage in his 2011 Budget by confirming plans to cap public sector pay at one per cent for two years, after the current pay freeze ends, and take steps to «rebalance» pay levels across the country.

After a summer of political bickering that crippled the New York State Senate, has public outrage...

After the white - out revealed itself to be a fizz - out, social media (better than anything invented since the torch - bearing mob at intensifying and funneling outrage) exploded with wrath at the meteorological community, media community and public officials who shut down half the state, and the New York City subways to boot.

But more than a century after a distraught Georgia man mowed down six of his fellow citizens, research on mass violence still takes a backseat to public fear and outrage.

After navigating the public school system in New York City as a caregiver and in Philadelphia as an afterschool program administrator, Melissa Diana Aguirre grew increasingly outraged at the poor quality teaching in urban schools.

After a wave of public outrage, Amazon reversed its stance and announced that for $ 15, users could opt out of the ads.

Amid a storm of public outrage, Schwarzenegger withdrew his proposal barely 24 hours after issuing it.

In September 2011, we gained a set of keys to access the facility after hours and were able to post videos and photos of the conditions there which have outraged the public.

RED - faced bosses at Edinburgh Castle have been forced into an embarrassing change of plans after public outrage over a charity partner.

Reflecting a more general trend, scientists have deemed it acceptable to participate in climate activism groups that seek to manipulate public opinion with a «narrative that creates public outrage» and to deploy «multiple, complementary legal strategies» to solicit assistance from the machinery of law to go after companies.

And after public outrage, the council appropriated the $ 18 million back into the trust fund the next year.

I am being sarcastic but this is actually what you people sound like when you go after climate scientists, with the caveat of outrage over public funding to disguise that it is just a two - bit witch hunt.

Public outrage soared last month when the Grand Canyon backtracked on a plan to ban disposable plastic water bottle sales from the park after Coca - 2Cola, a major park sponsor, made its voice heard with top park officials.

After the lynch mob of outrage stirred up by the recent Divisional Court ruling on Article 50, it is a brave judge indeed who would say anything in public about the question of whether and how Parliament (i.e. the legislature) needs to approve the notification of the European Council under Article 50 of the UK's intention to leave the EU.

Outrage from Laurier alumni, international reputational damage and the realization that inquisitors Rambukkana, Pimlott and Joel had shamefully bullied and harassed Shepherd and betrayed the very idea of what a university should be eventually led Laurier's president Deborah MacLatchy (in «damage control mode») to apologize — but only after Shepherd's recording went public.

Merely a day after its «talk of the town» launch, Tay, Microsoft's AI chatbot was laid to rest by its creators after it brought a massive public outrage by its warp and perverted humor.

But after five days of outrage from the public, and calls for investigations and regulation from lawmakers in the US and UK, the company appears to be acknowledging that blaming users for not understanding its byzantine terms of service will not suffice.

Kim had faced a 200,000 - strong petition demanding he be fired from his position after the comments, which along with those by justice minister Park Sang - ki, sent shock waves through cryptocurrency markets and sparked public outrage.

Facebook has been on the forefront of public outrage and intense scrutiny for the past few days after it was discovered that Cambridge Analytica, a political advertising firm, acquired information on 50 million Facebook users without their consent or knowledge.