"Widespread outrage" means that a large number of people are very angry or upset about something.
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A leak exposed their intention to include a cut to holidays, as part of an overall below inflation three year deal,
sparked widespread outrage within the NHS and wider.
He was visibly irritated with having to back down in the face
of widespread outrage and after much hesitation and buck passing, it fell through.
Environmental issues, most noticeably climate change and animal cruelty, have
seen widespread outrage and demonstrations involving young people, but the same can not be said for nature.
Meriam Ibrahim was sentenced to hang in May for renouncing Islam, sparking
widespread outrage at home and abroad.
NEW YORK CITY — The city's Districting Commission has officially withdrawn new City Council district lines following
widespread outrage over a last - minute change that would have helped disgraced Assemblyman Vito Lopez.
Yet, Wells Fargo's board only decided to clawback Tolstedt's pay
following widespread outrage that Tolstedt was set to leave the bank with as much as $ 125 million in stock and options intact, which was first reported by Fortune.
The New York Post's reporting on the murder of Williamsburg developer Menachem Stark has attracted
widespread outrage from members of the Orthodox Jewish community...
After widespread outrage over the soaring price of the EpiPen, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday announced he had launched of an anti-trust investigation into the company that manufacturers the autoinjector.
The discovery has led to
widespread outrage against Facebook and prompted Washington lawmakers to call Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify next week before congressional committees.
The ruling effectively dissolved the elected legislature... and allows the court to write laws itself...» Faced
with widespread outrage, both domestic and international, the court, at the request of Maduro, backed down a few days later and reversed its ruling.
The New York Post's reporting on the murder of Williamsburg developer Menachem Stark has
attracted widespread outrage from members of the Orthodox Jewish community as well as local politicians.
There was
widespread outrage when officers searched Mr Green's offices in parliament without a warrant in November.
BY ANDY HUMM The New York County Democratic Party and its vaunted independent screening panel for approving judges for the ballot has come under scorching and
widespread outrage for the panel's refusal to recommend that Justice Doris Ling - Cohan, a 20 - year veteran of the bench without a blemish on her record, be approved for nomination for -LSB-...]
The video of a woman abandoning four dogs at a vacant lot in San Antonio, Texas, has gone viral and
caused widespread outrage.
Public reaction to this complex picture has been reminiscent of the last time there was
widespread outrage about social media in political life — the revelations made by Edward Snowden in June 2013.
Widespread outrage in response to recent disclosure of new details about Cambridge Analytica has all the appearance of such a moment.
This is an old problem in the United States, where the ill - advised prognostications of the National Science Foundation in the early 1990s were followed by intense congressional criticism and
widespread outrage among graduate students and postdocs.
In April, seventy - seven faith leaders signed a letter urging Anderson to halt One Newark for «producing irreversible changes and
fomenting widespread outrage.»
US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke released a plan to open up the nation's coastlines to offshore drilling, a decision that not only
incited widespread outrage, but may have also violated federal law.
There was
widespread outrage at the report from across the political spectrum, with union leaders joining forces with right - wing pressure groups like the Taxpayers» Alliance to back the findings.
Several marchers wore pink «pussy» hats, and carried banners with slogans like: «this pussy bites back» after the emergence of a 2005 tape in which Trump spoke of women in a demeaning way
sparked widespread outrage.
The study's publication in June 2014 prompted one of the first instances of
widespread outrage over privacy concerns on Facebook.
The Evening Standard has refused to drop Charles Saatchi as its art columnist,
despite widespread outrage over his assault on his wife Nigella Lawson.
The discovery has led to
widespread outrage against Facebook and prompted Washington lawmakers to call Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify next week before congressional committees.
The blog went viral,
causing widespread outrage and triggering a series of class - action lawsuits that led EA to settle for tens of millions.
Barker was implicated in the 2009 MPs» expenses scandal for his purchase and sale of London flats; this led to
widespread outrage from tax payers.
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz testified before the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday to outline steps the airline was taking to improve customer service
after widespread outrage followed footage of a United customer being violently ejected from a flight.
The widespread outrage directed at Facebook for manipulating its users» emotions has the dating site, which has been routinely running experiments on its own users, perplexed.
Richard's talk of withdrawing «moral assent» from the American «regime» and, especially, his invocation of the Nazis sparked
widespread outrage, not least among some of his board members, several of whom resigned.
The report argued public anger and consumer pressure were helpful tools for convincing large companies to behave more responsibly, with
the widespread outrage at tax dodging by Starbucks and Amazon being notable examples.
In a familiar pattern,
widespread outrage at the shooting prompted investors to buy shares in Sturm, Ruger and Outdoor Brands, the parent company of Smith & Wesson.
The UDHR was a response to
widespread outrage to the Holocaust and other crimes of that time.
Pictures of children huddling in 30 - degree classrooms wearing parkas sparked
widespread outrage, and calls for school officials to do better.
I'm surprised there was
no widespread outrage this time around, I'd like to see the sales of this game as it looks as if almost everyone who disliked how ME3 ended didn't play this one.
They end up being mistaken for food by marine life, which, when swallowed, can cause injury or even death, or they can get painfully jammed into orifices, like with this turtle whose suffering sparked
widespread outrage.
When Postmedia broke the news of this shabby defiance of democracy in early 2012 there was
widespread outrage.
Fortunately,
widespread outrage (thanks to a YouTube video, of all things) pressured Apple into starting a battery replacement program.
The use of restraint in Australia's juvenile justice system to control challenging youth has made media headlines, garnering national attention and
widespread outrage.