Sentences with phrase «years is an outrage»

Read the story — and tell me how a cop who killed an innocent man not serving time is fair and this guy doing almost fifty years is an outrage.

As President of the Toronto Lawyers Association and a criminal defense lawyer practicing for over 22 years I was outraged to read not merely about the arrest of Laura Liscio, but about the manner in which the arrest was conducted.

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However, over the weekend it was also hit by fresh outrage over the fact that — as people discovered when they downloaded their Facebook data — the company was for years quietly harvesting users» call logs on Android phones.

Since the Volkswagen emissions scandal erupted last week, there's been a tendency to liken it to other automotive outrages of recent years — GM and its ignition switches, Toyota and its gas pedals, Honda and its airbags.

Trump famously outraged many Panamanians in the year before the Ocean Club opening, when he lamented that the canal had just been given back to the Panamanian people.

When the ACLU reported last year that law enforcement teamed up with Geofeedia, a software company that uses social media data to track and monitor protesters, many were outraged.

Big financial firms started curtailing year - end bashes in 2008 as taxpayer bailouts, populist outrage and weak profits created an environment where lavish celebrations were frowned upon.

Consumers were outraged to learn about the price fixing, but no one who shopped for bread in recent years was surprised to hear prices were pushed up

Consumers have expressed outrage at the revelation, though anyone who has shopped for bread in recent years certainly wouldn't be surprised to hear prices were pushed up.

The public should be outraged that six years after the greatest crash since 1929, we are looking at the same systemic vulnerability.

I am outraged that Heather Cook, the former Episcopal priest, has the audacity to request to be released from prison after serving only two and a half years, not even four years after killing bicyclist Tom Palermo in a horrendous turn of events in which she showed herself to have no moral compass,...

This is the year privacy safeguards finally kick in for consumers after outraged lawmakers wasted no time passing legislation in the wake of the Equifax data breach, which exposed the personal information of more than 145 million Americans.

Think of the outrage a few years back when Cecil the lion was killed for sport.

Arguing in a vacuum over what Jesus would do in 2012 using a 2000 - year - old text is an academic waste of time and an outrage to those who are actually sick and dying right now, even if it is not completely irrelevant.

Oddly, the comments were made in an interview with the Oakland Press back in 2012 and in a blog post they wrote the same year, but are just now on the receiving end of social media outrage.

CNN: Saudi Islamist preacher on trial in daughter's slaying Outrage is mounting in Saudi Arabia about the case of a 5 - year - old girl who died after allegedly being beaten and tortured by her father, who activists say is an Islamist preacher.

The rioting would be understandable if the subject of the outrage was the abuse that occurred and the years long tolerance and coverup of it that ensued.

She said that she had never engaged in this kind of activity before, but she was outraged when, seven years ago, her first complaints were brushed aside by the local board of health.

The video of an officer taking down Garner went viral last year and was the subject of considerable outrage across the country.

As Shurlock said in an interview several years after our first meeting, «I was protecting the industry from being harmed by outraged viewers.»

But the fact that so many television critics are taking serious issue with how shows are treating their women and sexuality is notable, if only because this sort of outrage was generally laughed off a few years ago.

Progressive Catholic groups vented outrage Friday over the decision of a Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts to rescind the admission of an 8 - year - old student because his parents are lesbians.

Not least because a hundred years later the use of «Dear Sirs» is likely to elicit a chorus of feminist outrage which compels me to add that any madams reading this would do well to buy this book as well (I'm sure that helped).

After rumors surfaced that 17 - year - old pop wunderkind Lorde is dating an Asian photographer by the name of James Lowe, racists everywhere did what they do worst: try to string together a few coherent words that would fully express their outrage over Twitter.

Something of this order is the only possible explanation for the halo, breastplate, and sword we have extended to sex among our students, and for the furious outrage of our pathetic pretense to innocence when of late we «discovered» what has been going on around us for forty years.

Clemson's defense outright voided Ohio State on New Year's Eve with so much speed and violence, it feels like it's the outraged, focused unit Saban wants Alabama's to be.

Oddities tended to attract an undue share of public attention: there was amusement over the King and Queen of England eating hot dogs while visiting President Roosevelt at Hyde Park; outrage when the President changed the date of Thanksgiving from November 30 to November 23; excitement when Al Capone was released from a federal penitentiary after serving more than seven years for income tax evasion.

At the time there were many Arsenal fans that were outraged when Wenger didn't recall his prodigal son, especially as we all knew that Santi Cazorla was getting on in years and we had no ready - made replacement.

Half a million people die of cancer every year in America, one out of every four of us will get it, and there's no moral outrage; we accept it.

As reported in the Evening Standard, the fury and frustration of the Arsenal fans after the club tried to sneakily add on a charge to next year's season tickets because we are playing Barcelona in the next phase of the Champions League caused a backlash, with many contacting the club in outrage to protest.

After Ole Miss denied claims that it lied to recruits about its NCAA violation and that they believe Shea Patterson should not be eligible next year, several former Michigan players took to Twitter to share their thoughts outrage about the QB potentially not being eligible:

December 4, 2004: If undefeated Auburn had finished No. 2 in that year's BCS standings after beating two more top - 10 teams than Oklahoma did, there would've been no simmering BCS outrage throughout the SEC.

And a couple of years ago, when former Gator defensive back Jarvis Williams, now with the Miami Dolphins, said publicly that he didn't care about Florida's football fortunes, Spurrier was outraged.

What's funny is the outrage and disbelief from certain fans - where have these muppets been the last 10 years?

Arsenal Fans outraged Fabregas» transfer to Chelsea in particular was very difficult for Arsenal supporters, the club for which the Spanish midfielder played for eight years, and at one time was the club's captain.

Public outrage over the charges has been fueled by the recent admission by USA Swimming that 36 coaches over a ten - year period have been banned for life for sexually abusing swimmers has drawn outrage among the public.

If that was served at school on a weekly basis to a six - year - old, most of us would be outraged (and rightfully so!).

After being outraged by the food served in her school cafeteria, Sara Wu started a blog called Fed Up With Lunch, which she wrote under the pseudonym of Mrs. Q. For a whole year, she ate her school cafeteria lunch and documented her experience with photos of her meals.

«Almost 120 years ago, Mass Audubon was founded by two women who, outraged by the mass killing of egrets and other species for their feathers, inspired a national movement to protect vulnerable birdlife,» Tepper noted.

I say first full class because she tried it a couple of years ago but slipped over on the floor before class started and was so outraged that it happened she declared that dancing was stupid and she no longer wanted anything to do with -LSB-...]

Nearly three years ago, lovers of the Manlius swans were outraged when a man destroyed swan eggs in a nest near the village pond.

Britain is attempting to block immigrants from the European Union from accessing benefits for up to two years, in a dramatic move prompting outrage from Brussels.

A year later, the election of another Albanian girl — the best pupil in her school in Crete — was also met with public outrage, to which the local teachers» union president reportedly responded: «This excellent student may be of Albanian origin but she has a Greek citizenship».

«So many mothers and fathers have expressed fear and outrage that the homes they've labored for years to call their own may have been quietly causing harm to their families all along.»

Many are outraged over the recent increase in the qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal to two years» service and the introduction of fees for employment tribunals, but migrants without the entitlement to work lack even these meagre protections.

Skelos said he was outraged by de Blasio's decision to cancel classroom space for three of longtime adversary Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools this fall that were approved last year by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Twelve years later, while most LGBT organisations accepted the second best option of civil partnerships when they were legislated in 2004, OutRage!

The suggested raise for legislators is even higher than a similar proposal last year that died quickly after public outrage.

The public wasn't sufficiently outraged (possibly because they liked his scathing audits of various agencies and authorities during the Pataki years) and re-elected the comptroller in November, 2006.

«The voters in my district are outraged by the conduct of the Senate in June, and in particular of Pedro Espada, and I share their feelings,» he said, daintily kissing any discretionary spending for the next year good - bye.