Sentences with phrase «said public outcry»

While Bela's case has sparked massive outrage, Ley's attorney, Doug Denmure, said public outcry can't preempt the deceased's will.

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.

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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.

The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with gun makers after a wave of public outcry sparked by the Florida school shooting last week.

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

Despite the public outcry, many analysts think Britain will still sanction the takeover, since officials have already said any threats to media competition will be resolved with Sky News» spin - off.

The public outcry around 401 (k) savings generated during the tax - reform debate last year showed Congress that retirement is an important issue to Americans, said Brian Graff, NAPA's executive director.

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.

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.

This is not to bash former Pres. Bush, but only now do I really understand why there was such a public outcry and the feeling he didn't care when he delayed saying anything for days after hurricane Katrina.

«It's substantively not the most critical health issue, yet it was framed in such a way that the public outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public Intpublic outcry actually changed food policy in a matter of weeks,» said Sarah Klein, a lawyer at the Center for Science in the Public IntPublic Interest.

Having said this, AYD is of the view that the recent public outcry that has greeted the activities of small - scale mining in the country, and the subsequent knee - jerk and fire - fighting war on small scale mining has only reinforced the age - old problem of successive governments.

Following an outcry by Queens and city legislators about widespread voting problems during Primary Day, the city Board of Elections said it is taking extra precautions to educate the public about the new voting machines before the Nov. 2 election.

«It has been a long time since required paving has been increased and there is a big public outcry to fix the roads, it was blatantly apparent in the last campaign season,» said Common Council President Michael Galime.

Public comment on a proposal to allow new facilities to be built in New York ended in November, and drew significant outcry from environmentalists, who connect such facilities to fracking even though state officials said the two are not related.

Asked how she will win the support of Republicans in a gridlocked Congress, Velázquez said she believes public outcry will help.

«It's unfortunate that it took a public outcry for the mayor to do what she should have done from the beginning,» Sheppard said.

Democrats then said that they would stand by the speaker, but days of relentlessly negative news stories, editorials calling for Silver's resignation, and public outcry changed that.

But while to this point there has not been a new public outcry at the New York Legislature, female lawmakers say that the Weinstein scandal and its fallout have struck a chord and sparked private conversations about their early experiences in Albany and how they can best aid young female staff aides and legislators.

«This guy is unfit for public office, and there should be a huge outcry,» said Stringer, according to the New York Daily News.

«The voters in their districts know very well that they were going to lose out under the GOP plan and that's why there was such a public outcry,» said Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action.

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.

Mustapha Abdul Hamid, a lecturer at the Department of Religion and Human Values of the University of Cape Coast says Ghanaians must be alarmed by the decision of government to keep the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees despite wide public outcry.

Muzzio said he believes there will have to be major public outcry before the Legislature gets serious on reform.

Environmentalists, including Bill Cook, with Citizens Campaign for the Environment, says what ever the reason for the committee's delay, he's happy for the additional time, and he believes the DEC is reacting to «public outcry».

Taking away the pensions of public employees convicted of a felony is something DeFrancisco said he can see passing because of the public outcry for ethics reform in the state.

He said it would bring the herd closer to a population target of 3,000 to 3,500 and lessen the public outcry tied to slaughter of wayward buffalo.

Almost monthly we see major media and public outcry against high health care costs, wasteful spending in hospitals, exorbitant pharmaceutical costs,» said team member Tommy Angelini, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace.

LONDON — Pharmaceuticals in drinking water: it's a made - for - TV topic that can stir up public outcry faster than you can say «barely detectable residues.»

The bank's governor said that the bank will review the design process for new currency in light of the ensuing public outcry.

«If it turns out that they «vesuccessfully cloned a baby, and that's a big if, it's going to causea huge public outcry and a backlash thatcould cripple an area of medical research that has the potential to eliminate a range of seriousdiseases,» Lanza says.

Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users» photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry

The FDA's announcement several months ago that it would hold a public hearing on the subject elicited an outcry from scientists, ethicists and religious groups, who say the technology raises grave safety concerns and could open the door to creating «designer» babies, whose eye color, intelligence and other characteristics are selected by parents.

In the wake of public outcry over spending controls at the California School Boards Association, an independent review said the organization adhered to a culture of quiet» regarding policies, rules, and regulations that made staff reluctant to voice their concerns internally.

«I'm pleased our legislators moved on the public outcry to dial back the amount of testing,» says Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association (CEA).

Introducing the plans, the acting Ofsted chief Miriam Rosen said the previous emphasis on safeguarding children had followed the public outcry over the Soham murders - but suggested that schools had now taken steps to ensure pupils» safety.

However, the Galaxy S — a handset that Samsung said was «under review» following a public outcry — has not made it onto the list.

And the Trump administration in one fell swoop took all that information and has yet so far refused to put it back up despite a huge public outcry,» Blome said.

Organizers say that they expect a great deal of interest in these dogs because the public outcry before, during and after the Games.

Despite the public's major outcry, Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews said the move is vital to save endangered native wildlife.

«Where say on pay has been implemented, it's been implemented as a legislative response by politicians to a public outcry.

Following outcry from the natural gas industry and from many Canadians, Public Services and Procurement Canada says it has snuffed out a study exploring more environmentally friendly options to replace the natural gas used keep...

Earlier this month, after a public outcry over disturbing and potentially exploitative YouTube content involving children, CEO Susan Wojcicki said the company would increase its number of human moderators to more than 10,000 in 2018, in an attempt to rein in unsavory content on the web's biggest video platform.

After the public outcry over Facebook's data and privacy settings, Mr. Zuckerberg was persuaded that he needed to appear, they said.

The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.

The president endorsed certain gun control moves amid the public outcry and said «there's nothing more important...

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».