Sentences with phrase «sort of firestorm»

It was these rich white dudes, wanting to be richer than they were, who invented derivative trading and all sorts of creative shenanigans to inflate the money supply, creating a sort of firestorm of buyer demand in the first five years of the last decade.

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While my petition focused on the use of pink slime in school food, I feel strongly that the media firestorm we created and the overwhelming response to the petition was animated by another concern as well: many Americans were learning for the first time about this substance and the fact that it's in, reportedly, 70 % of our ground beef without any sort of labeling for those who wish to avoid it.
Go Set a Watchman By Harper Lee Harper Perennial • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9780062409867 Published in hardcover just seven months before Lee died, this recently «discovered» novel — a prequel of sorts to To Kill a Mockingbird — ignited a firestorm and aroused the curiosity of readers around the world.
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