Sentences with phrase «public outrage if»

They have been implemented in a cloak and dagger way which suggests ministers are well aware they would spark public outrage if they were properly understood.

The vulnerability is common, and it will cause other service - based companies to walk the plank of public outrage if it is not properly understood and contained.

Not exact matches

If these efforts at refunds are tried, a) there will be public outrage and heat on the government, and b) others will sue.

«Being truthful, even if it makes one look bad, is the quickest way to reduce the length of time spent by media covering an issue or the length of public outrage exhibited on social media.

Most of time, you'll only see slight growth, but if you happen to catch a wave of public indignation you might see a massive spurt of signups — I heard a presentation in 2005 from a group that had gone from zero to over 100,000 names in just a few months (if I remember right) because of outrage over gay marriage (they were on the let - us - marry - dammit side).

You probably wouldn't need it if they post all expenses online - it would basically outsource scrutiny to an outraged public.

«If you also are outraged by a new chancellor without any experience in public education and who sent her own children to private school, here is an online petition you can sign and forward on,» wrote one parent on an education e-mail list.

Even if Labour scored a decent second in the popular vote, installing a new prime minister no one had voted for would surely cause public outrage — leaving only the still implausible prime ministerial option of Clegg himself.

Perhaps public outrage wouldn't be so high if the nation was seeing real results.

If (the public) understood what was happening with education to their children, there would be an outrage in this city.

«If any suggestion was made that unqualified doctors were let loose on patients there would be public outrage.»

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

If Apple had silently decided to stop providing security updates for nearly 1B of their users, the public outrage would be hard to ignore.

If the true and staggering cost of subsidised wind and solar power were public knowledge, there would be public outrage.

If they did, they'd join religious groups in expressing outrage every time Planned Parenthood or other pro-abortion mouthpiece calls an unborn child (fetus, if you prefer) «a blob of tissue» or tries to prevent the biology of human prenatal development from being taught in public schoolIf they did, they'd join religious groups in expressing outrage every time Planned Parenthood or other pro-abortion mouthpiece calls an unborn child (fetus, if you prefer) «a blob of tissue» or tries to prevent the biology of human prenatal development from being taught in public schoolif you prefer) «a blob of tissue» or tries to prevent the biology of human prenatal development from being taught in public schools.

If we found dogs and horses with their legs severed, bleeding and dying, the public outrage would be deafening.

With these criticisms in mind, the latest in a long line of cases, R v Hamilton [2007] EWCA Crim 2026, [2007] All ER (D) 99 (Aug), merits consideration to determine what light it throws, if any, on the elements of the offence of outraging public decency.

It was contended on behalf of the appellant that the law relating to the offence of outraging public decency had developed in such a way that the offence was confined to those instances where the necessary lewd act had been witnessed by at least one person, and the public nature of the offence was only satisfied if, in addition, at least one other person either had or could have seen the act.

If we consider the biggest security risk for any law firm is the people they employ; along with the handful of high - profile cases that have the potential to become the focus of public outrage — it's not inconceivable that lawyer - client communications will be at greater risk.

When, if ever, will we see similar public statements of «outrage» (media releases and the like) from any of the spectrum of lawyers» associations when the «victim» is a non-lawyer.

HELD In order to prove an offence of outraging public decency the prosecution had to show that: (i) that the act was of such a lewd, obscene or disgusting character that it outraged public decency; and (ii) that the act took place in a public place and that it was capable of being seen by two or more persons present even if they had not actually seen it.

Furthermore, the offence of outraging public decency does not fall under the sex offenders» notification requirements, while a voyeur convicted under section 67 can be made subject to notification if the sentence passed is over a certain threshold or if the victim is under 18.

If the public is not outraged, the government does not have to act.

The public element in the offence was satisfied if the act was done where people were present and the nature of what was being done was capable of being seen; the principle was that the public were to be protected from obscene or disgusting acts which were of a nature that outraged public decency and which were capable of being seen in public.

The two person rule in respect of establishing the public element of the offence of outraging public decency contrary to the common law can be satisfied if there were two or more people present who were capable of seeing the nature of the act, even if they did not actually see it.

Those cases established that if the offence of outraging public decency was to be proved, it was necessary to prove two elements: first, that the act was of such a lewd character as to outrage public decency; that element constituted the nature of the act which had to be proved before the offence could be established.

If the FTC ultimately decides Facebook did violate the agreement, the company could be open to millions in fines, according to the Post — not to mention even more public outrage for violating the landmark privacy deal.

What if the shift to an inequitable two - tier health system in Australia generated a level of public outrage similar to that seen when news broke about cricket cheating?

It would be an outrage if any other rural or remote town had to sign an agreement with the government before public health authorities would evaluate disease control and environmental health standards.

If the public isn't outraged then we don't need it.

Only elected members of parliament / elected members of provincial legislatures «might» be motivated to take this issue on «if» enough public outrage demanded action.

So far, the public is simply apathetic about this issue, across the board, and only if a unitary member of the public is negatively affected by the behavior of a Realtor from time to time (if he / she even realizes that a dirty deed or an incompetent deed has been committed against him / her) does a lonely voice of outrage cry out for justice.

If filling in a blank with a number and inserting a few boiler plate clauses into a contract is all that is required by an Agent in «representing» their client's best interest, then the public has a right to be outraged at the fees we demand.