Sentences with phrase «widespread attention when»

Chad Eggerman, a partner at Miller Thomson in Saskatoon, wants to tighten up the Investment Canada Act, which gained widespread attention when Saskatchewan's premier demanded a foreign - owned company be blocked from purchasing a controlling interest in PotashCorp.

Vice has documented migrant worker abuses in Dubai, won acclaim for a documentary while embedded with Islamic State and garnered widespread attention when it took former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman to North Korea.

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The glitch gained widespread attention yesterday when Rachael Bale, a National Geographic journalist, tweeted that Google had «frozen» her document while she was writing a story about wildlife crime.

So it's somewhat ironic that when Bitcoin gained widespread attention Amber Baldet would be working at J.P. Morgan, one of the very banks that Bitcoin was designed to disrupt.

When a megachurch's walls came tumbling down in China's Jerusalem last month, the forced demolition drew widespread international attention thanks to photos circulating on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

Last year he received widespread media attention when he declared that he would engage in civil disobedience rather than comply with a law requiring him to report illegal immigrants, and he directed priests and other church workers to follow his lead.

Sayward, who has a gay son, attracted widespread attention in June 2007 when she made a speech on the Assembly floor in support of legalizing gay marriage.

The case attracted widespread media attention, especially when Manny's mother, Leslie Maresca, announced that she would be proud to carry a donor egg fertilised with Manny's sperm if Pam decided not to use the sample.

For instance, when it comes to victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those who did not die of acute radiation syndrome or the widespread lack of medical care after the attacks lived longer than other members of their generation because they received government - sponsored medical attention for the rest of their lives, Chumak says.

When online dating started gaining widespread attention a decade ago, many people considered it creepy.

When dating online was only gaining widespread attention — and that was about a decade ago - a lot of people were either too sceptical about adult dating websites or considered them to be rather a creepy way to search for someone.

Montgomery County, Maryland, for example, has received widespread attention for its «Peer Assistance and Review» plan, in which principals and «consulting teachers» evaluate teachers through observation, work closely with those in need of support or improvement, and make firing decisions when necessary.

When you don't understand what a press release is, how it's used by journalists, and how you can use it to gain widespread attention for your book, it's pretty hard to write one.

Dear Esther is one of the first narrative driven «walking simulators» that truly caught widespread attention and acclaim when it was first released by The Chinese Room.

It became world - renowned in the 1850s when the genre and landscape painting associated with the «Düsseldorf School» — a century's worth of painters including Peter Behrens, Hans Dahl, and Otto Hupp, among many others — gained widespread international attention, attracting students from the United States, Scandinavia, and Russia.

The highly acclaimed show, «Welcome to Iraq» which received widespread positive attention both from the visiting public and in the press when it was presented in Venice at the Biennale in 2013 is to be restaged in London at the South London Gallery.

When widespread unlawful practices are brought to our attention, we carefully investigate the allegations to determine whether we can use our legal skills and the judicial process to compensate the victims and right the wrongs.

You may remember the widespread attention last year when the NY Times reported that many judges on the Second Circuit expressed the view that legal «scholarship no longer had any impact on the courts.»

When the first blockchain token - bitcoin - gained widespread attention, regulators, lawmakers and courts began to consider how to characterize it under law.