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  • In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
  • There was a national outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
  • There was a massive public outcry against the harsh prison sentence.
  • And Obama was taken back when there was an outcry over his lamebrain ideal and he criticized the vets for not being patriotic. 2012 can't come soon enough! Obama shifts focus to Iraq, Afghanistan wars
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  • Despite the outcry, glottochronology is still employed, but in mathematically increasingly complex and conceptually more sophisticated models.
  • An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest. The Lamp in the Desert
  • Bank bosses should remember all this when they stand shocked by the outcry over bumper pay. The Sun
  • An outcry has been raised against the duello, when the fact is that the duello is simply the unit of war.
  • RAND, an independent research agency hired by the New York Police Department to analyze street-stop data in 2007 after public outcry, found little racial profiling.
  • The huge outcry in the wake of last year's organ retention scandals has had a very damaging effect with a large drop in the number of people donating organs for transplantation.
  • Yet such improvements to our education system will require relentless and vocal outcry from the parents whose children suffer most from the current state of our poorest and lowest-performing schools. Jalen Rose: Voter Education Equals Improving Our Educational System
  • The lack of evidence and the circumstantial nature of the testimony caused a public outcry.
  • Was the outcry following his appointment based on his management skills or the fact that he wasn't English?
  • These offences provoked an outcry when the nation was honouring those who have died in service. The Sun
  • There was an immediate outcry. Prior consent is a condition of genetic testing.
  • Victorian outcry against what was termed 'a blot 'on the already rather shady' escutcheon 'of Australia, the immigration was stopped in 1868. Town Life in Australia
  • Last year there was an outcry when a cull of the birds was suggested.
  • For many years, it has been the progressive movement that has championed advances in every level of American society -- from Social Security and Medicare to civil rights, equality of opportunity and freedom of choice. 2008 was a watershed election, an outcry from a large majority of Americans (not a tiny bunch of Tea Party extremists) for a fundamental change in the politics of our country. Hoyt Hilsman: Rooting for the Tea Party?
  • There he made statements, which have raised a massive and understandable outcry in the Italian press.
  • But they were eventually given the green light, following a public outcry.
  • After a passing threat in the 1960s that the British government might put an air base on Aldabra, and a public outcry against that bad idea much like the outcry that Darwin had joined earlier, the Royal Society of London assumed protectorship of the atoll. The Song of The Dodo
  • They have ignored the usual modern outcry about not making animals dress up or behave like humans. Times, Sunday Times
  • The decision prompted an outcry among prominent US campaigners.
  • Such things are no doubt very excellent, but they do not promote intensity of feeling, fervour of mind; and as art is in itself an outcry against the animality of human existence, it would be well that the life of the artist should be a practical protest against the so-called decencies of life; and he can best protest by frequenting a tavern and cutting his club. Confessions of a Young Man
  • The government hushed the affair up to avoid a public outcry.
  • Hale was permitted to retire quietly, but after a public outcry he was brought back to face charges.
  • Patients kept in such conditions in the health service would be the cause of public outcry and an enquiry. The Prisons We Deserve
  • There was a huge outcry against the advance of ribbon roads when the motor car arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • Traffic wardens in Eccles caused a national outcry when they hit Bugsy the bunny with a £60 penalty charge as he snuffled around in his cage.
  • Whilst I dont agree with the sentiment, I can see why this attitude may exist, and how with the public perception that crime is going largely unpunished (cps – not arrests) I can see that young wayne being roughed up a bit might not cause the public outcry it did 10 years ago. on September 9, 2009 at 9: 49 pm Bobdaz Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • I´ve never read Solzenitsyn, but aside from his very important contribution in denouncing the barbarism of stalisnism, I will not consider him a real defefender of the cause for liberty…I mean, from his positions supporting big tzarist or neo tzarist-traditional orthodox russian Empire you know, Putin…And lets no even take aside his moralists outcry about the rol that supposedly religion has to play in public life and has made him the heroe of many in the right posted 13 September 2008 at 7:46 am Solzhenitsyn Saturday
  • But the film would have portrayed her as a thief and there was a public outcry in Monaco. Times, Sunday Times
  • The plan was tabled only after a community outcry; the district has announced that it will hold a series of public forums on the subject.
  • There was a huge outcry against the advance of ribbon roads when the motor car arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • The principality is the latest European tax haven to bend to an international outcry over tax evasion. LGT Group Quits Tax-Shelter Business
  • About the time this outcry was gathering momentum, a curve ball landed like a left hook.
  • This outcry is hiding behind 'healthcare' but it is racially motivated and part of the conservatives to make sure Obama does not succeed. GA congressman describes hate mail, Nazi graffiti after protests
  • That case sparked a nationwide outcry about racial profiling and police brutality.
  • Some three years on from that initial burst of enthusiasm and the corresponding outcry from the professional market much has changed.
  • If she flinches, makes an outcry and tries to get up from the sofa, don't worry.
  • Christian's response was closured by a wild outcry from the wood, hounds and horn lifting up their voices together in sudden delirium. Mount Music
  • In 2013 a 4million aid payout to the same group provoked an outcry. The Sun
  • There was outcry at the judge's statement.
  • Ministers are bracing themselves for a public outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The huge outcry about a little government scheme to recruit new teachers sounds the same. Times, Sunday Times
  • When they did, however, the outcry was enormous.
  • The festival was an outcry against everyday life and a short escape from the treadmill of the work-eat-sleep regime.
  • The new tax provoked a public outcry.
  • The global outcry had reached a crescendo. The Sun
  • The government approved the proposal, with some scientific backing, but environmental groups led an international outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The outcry follows a Venetian protest march against the waves of tourists overwhelming their city. Times, Sunday Times
  • A child's outcry, more "malapert" than the priest, called the attention of the lingerers, and before any one knew, the passion of destruction had seized like a frenzy upon the people. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
  • The proposal will provoke an outcry in the Commons. Times, Sunday Times
  • The core of the actual evidential argument, once you strip away the assertion of factuality, is that the term "outcry" is consistently used to relate to murder victims, and that we should therefore consider it to mean murder victims on the context of Sodom. Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
  • These offences provoked an outcry when the nation was honouring those who have died in service. The Sun
  • MLK at 79 Would Still be Debating the Slaughters and Lies of Capitalist Imperialism yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'MLK at 79 Would Still be Debating the Slaughters and Lies of Capitalist Imperialism'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Corporate media blocks public knowledge of the fury of King\'s outcry over U.S. wars of occupation and the powerful indictment of his government in his Beyond Vietnam speech, that made bold headlines in newspapers around the world. MLK at 79 Would Still be Debating the Slaughters and Lies of Capitalist Imperialism
  • In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
  • The action followed a public outcry over revelations that the church hierarchy covered up claims of abuse.
  • Hale was permitted to retire quietly, but after a public outcry he was brought back to face charges.
  • Instead, he fled the country until, abashed by a public outcry and newspaper appeals to find him, he contacted his family and his father fetched him home.
  • When Joel and I, together, month after month guide these chemistries to completion, and when - O climax outcrying the seven thunders! Explorations
  • The title raised an outcry and sparked protests in parts of India, because "Slumdog" was seen as derogatory to India's millions of slum dwellers. Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
  • The huge outcry about a little government scheme to recruit new teachers sounds the same. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over the past 30 years, a global outcry against using the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, has led to the resurgence of the mosquito, a voracious consumer of human blood and carrier of infectious disease. Scott Dodd: Climate Change Drives Dengue Fever Re-Emergence in U.S.
  • Thanks to organized protest, general public outcry, and the intervention of both the Audubon Society and the NYC Parks Department, Pale Male and Lola can again roost in peace. Archive 2004-12-01
  • There was a huge outcry against the advance of ribbon roads when the motor car arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the film would have portrayed her as a thief and there was a public outcry in Monaco. Times, Sunday Times
  • To summarise my response in later posts: The word "outcry" is used, in the cases of Hagar and Esau in reference to crimes other than murder, contradicting your argument. Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
  • The killing caused an international outcry.
  • To simply say that they are murderers because the word "outcry" is used elsewhere in the Bible in respect of murder and must therefore mean the same here is like saying that every "accused" in the docks must be "accused" of the same crime simply because they are all referred to as "accused". Archive 2006-02-01
  • Can you imagine the outcry if English football fans were treated in this way?
  • It was industrialization which caused that outcry. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
  • Tchen points out that political orientalism rooted in the outcry of organized labor against the non-organized Chinese labor, which was cheaply used by the capitalists to break strikes.
  • The grant of a patent in 1723 to the Birmingham ironmaster William Wood, to produce copper coinage for Ireland, raised an outcry in the Dublin press, and violent popular demonstrations.
  • The polymath Doyle tried to kill off Holmes at the turn of the century, but public outcry encouraged the author to resuscitate the archetypal detective in 1901's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
  • Ministers are bracing themselves for a public outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a national outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • Demonstrators led by students demanding cheaper and better state education blocked roads and lit fires as police used water cannons and tear gas to quell the latest outcry against the conservative billionaire. Chile hit by violent protests
  • Sharp had reached its most furious stage, that venerable corruptionist, worn down by ill health, and almost crazed by the popular outcry, sold his B.oadway railroad to Peter A.B. Widener, William L. Elkins, and William H. Kemble. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry
  • The closure of the local hospital has caused a huge public outcry .
  • The closure of the local hospital has caused a huge public outcry .
  • There was a huge outcry against the advance of ribbon roads when the motor car arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • The news that he had been released provoked a national outcry about lenient sentencing. Times, Sunday Times
  • The award was shelved after an international outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • Can you imagine the outcry if English football fans were treated in this way?
  • The large number of civilian deaths in Sakhiet provoked an international outcry.
  • But the film would have portrayed her as a thief and there was a public outcry in Monaco. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trader gives his orders by open outcry and officially sanctioned hand signals.
  • They have ignored the usual modern outcry about not making animals dress up or behave like humans. Times, Sunday Times
  • The outcry was such that the airline relented, the familiar red, white and blue made its way back onto the plane tails and planeloads of passengers breathed a sigh of relief.
  • The money was handed back after a national outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bombshell sparked an outcry from her fellow coaches who reckon she is spoiling a winning TV formula by heading for the exit. The Sun
  • If we started conscripting our road builders, it might indeed cause a public outcry which very well might result in fewer roads being built. The Draft: Who Pays the Price?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • I read the rethugs outcry to Durbin's honest feelings about what the AMerican FBI did to their interrogatees as a collective abreaction. Flashback: When Durbin Compared U.S. Torture To Nazis, Firestorm Ensued
  • A further outcry from consumer groups and fire brigade unions is expected over the dangers from fire.
  • The outcry over the case has thrown a pall over Scotland's justice system.
  • The company backed down and withdrew the T-shirt uniform after a public outcry.
  • Our research revealed that in some areas there was an outcry if councils left verges uncut.
  • There was a huge outcry at the time. The Sun
  • There was an outcry when he was canonised by the current pope in 2002.
  • There was a huge outcry against the advance of ribbon roads when the motor car arrived. Times, Sunday Times
  • That prompted an outcry from politicians and patient groups, and tense talks on the scheme have been under way for more than three months. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only thing I find more disturbing is the lack of public outcry over this outrage.
  • Public outcry resulted in the banning of the organochlorines DDT, BHC and lindane in 1978.
  • After an outcry from the military brass and heavy attacks in the media, he reversed himself two days later.
  • There was an outcrying for help, Heb.v. 7, “Who in the days of his flesh offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him.” Sacramental Discourses
  • The release from prison of two of the terrorists has provoked a public outcry.
  • In October, a massive outcry from citizens put the brakes on the city's plans to privatize its own water system.
  • There'd be a public outcry if they did, and besides, what would become of all the depots, and the service plants, and the ancillaries ? THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
  • That case sparked a nationwide outcry about racial profiling and police brutality.
  • LONDON — Two of the world's most opaquely traded metals are to be launched as futures contracts on the London Metal Exchange next week, a strategic broadening of products at Europe's last open-outcry trading forum. LME to Offer New Metal Trades
  • The grant of a patent in 1723 to the Birmingham ironmaster William Wood, to produce copper coinage for Ireland, raised an outcry in the Dublin press, and violent popular demonstrations.
  • Patients kept in such conditions in the health service would be the cause of public outcry and an enquiry. The Prisons We Deserve
  • One waits for an outcry about such abuses from honest attorneys or an investigation by the local bar association.
  • The bombshell sparked an outcry from her fellow coaches who reckon she is spoiling a winning TV formula by heading for the exit. The Sun
  • The outcry in the press was significant, and the resultant investigation into the incident was extensive.
  • We need to be able to lift up our faces toward heaven in the swelling joys and the startling perils of these mortal hours and cry, 'Hear me,' knowing that God does hear us and that the outcrying of every praying heart rings clear and strong in the courts of the Heavenly King. The Threshold Grace
  • I offer a brief history of unionism, including the public outcry inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
  • The money was handed back after a national outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • MADDEN: And George -- no, George conceded as much today in "The New York Times" story that was talking about this whole outcrying of -- of angst against -- against ABC. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
  • The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups.
  • These tears were a vanward wave of the sea to follow; the rising of her voice to heaven was no more than a twitter of the earliest dawn before the coming of her soul's outcry. Vittoria — Complete
  • Bank bosses should remember all this when they stand shocked by the outcry over bumper pay. The Sun
  • However, in response to the public outcry at the proposals, the council has now backtracked claiming talk of closure was a rumour.
  • There is sure to be a massive outcry against the proposals.
  • In 1993, Colombia's government briefly made paying ransoms illegal, but there was an outcry from victims' relatives.
  • Since an injury ruled loose forward and 'fetcher' Heinrich Brussouw out of Bok consideration for this year, the back-row choices of De Villiers have almost inevitably sparked an outcry. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Why did it take a national outcry before anyone saw sense? The Sun
  • The most desperate outcry against the war was from women throughout the world, and especially from Arab women.
  • A public outcry secured her release from detention.
  • The most recent outcry has been over the misuse of Florence's public fountains. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it could spark a fresh outcry over our energy policy. The Sun
  • If this matter is taken further there should be a national outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite several degrees of self-censorship in those chatrooms, the number of incidents where the government followed an online outcry is countless.
  • After the Indians wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way. The Lonesome Dove Series
  • We've heard a lot about the bellboy, the bellhop that this alleged victim made her immediate outcry to.
  • There was no great outcrying amongst the majority for these policies, indeed many were done against express public opinion. Matthew Yglesias » Defense Crouch
  • The move has provoked public outcry from bar owners and thousands of waiters, dancers and bar girls, as well as disgruntled murmurings from late-night boozers.
  • They were released on bail following a public outcry but still faced an uncertain future.
  • By this time the whole place was full of gunpowder smoke, and there was the sound of blows and oaths and outcrying and the clashing of knives. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
  • One waits for an outcry about such abuses from honest attorneys or an investigation by the local bar association.
  • Suddenly, the loyalist outcry over the arrests in the Rathcoole district was the government's best friend.
  • The National Assembly, having recast vast areas of French secular life unresisted, and indeed removed the Church's material foundations without much outcry, saw no need to negotiate its policies with anyone.
  • The outcry follows a Venetian protest march against the waves of tourists overwhelming their city. Times, Sunday Times
  • O'Gara even floated the idea of busing in jurors from an outside county, and returning them at night to avoid media attention and public outcry. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
  • In deviating from righteousness into sin the "outcry" is an automatic result. Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
  • Norway outlawed smoking in bars and restaurants last June to an outcry from publicans who predicted serious trade shortfalls.
  • They were convicted and executed, despite a massive outcry from all over the world against this barbaric treatment.
  • The worldwide outcry plunged him into the snakepit of international politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • After an outcry, the bank said that it was reviewing the situation. Times, Sunday Times
  • What hides behind this outcry for religion that reverberates in the Arab world?
  • “Do they have nothing else to offer the world but this constant seeding of fear planting — a clear act of desperation and perhaps anger on the part of Tony Blair who is having to let go of the reigns in Britain because of public outcry against the occupation of Iraq, and may think that he is himself the martyr while he continues to martyrize us?” We Are Being Martyrized by Bush and Blair-They Are Tormenting Us!
  • When the speech prompted outcry from the Vatican, Berlusconi dismissed Gaddafi's behaviour as merely "folkloric". Berlusconi jokes about Hitler at youth rally
  • There was a huge outcry at the time. The Sun
  • Why hasn't there been a louder outcry about the measures adopted?
  • Watching the Republicans attack so viciously over everything from Health Care, Birth Certificates, Deal Panels, the President speaking to school children from afar is really disturbing especially when every one on this planet suffered under the Bush-Cheny Regime but there was no outcry like there is now. Sources: White House considers drafting health care bill
  • Obviously I haven't been brave enough to broach this topic amongst our friends for fear of an outcry.
  • The worldwide outcry plunged him into the snakepit of international politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was interested to read about the driver who was cautioned for playing his music too loudly in his car and the ensuing outcry from both the media and from the driver himself.
  • The award was shelved after an international outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • God's gifts, and often make them occasions of sin; but this outcry of the beam against the mote, which is so grievously prevalent in the religious world, is very unseemly. Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain
  • The proposal will provoke an outcry in the Commons. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was an immediate outcry. Prior consent is a condition of genetic testing.
  • Jim Glassman, you have said, and you have written that the opposition, the outcry was, the result of what you called rank racist nonsense, and it was foolish, and embarrassing. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2006
  • Regardless of how the mistake was made, the lashings could be a sign Iran is pushing back against the international outcry over Ashtiani's jailing and death sentence, and a message that the embattled woman herself will be punished further because of the publicity. Main page collection
  • It would die down for an instant, in response to these appeals, only to burst out afresh as certain groups of traders started the pandemonium again, by the wild outcrying of their offers. The Pit: A Story of Chicago
  • The group was disbanded after an outcry in the 1980s and some members jailed. The Sun
  • Besides they take out less than 1 percentage of the total population of that species every year and they breed faster than that .. because of obvious wrongly informed people like u they cannot raise theire quota to a lvl where they r actually regulating the population withouth public outcry from the "seals are too cute to hunt" people like u, led by an ancient french moviestar and paul mccartney and his peglegged ex .. Taking Odds On A Western Wolf Hunt
  • The global outcry had reached a crescendo. The Sun
  • I have made the Commission a living force, and in consequence the outcry among the spoilsmen has become furious.
  • This shows what a mess this whole eco-tax grab was," Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said of the program, which was cancelled after three weeks of public outcry last July. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • She was not liked in the province; there had been a fearful outcry at her marriage with Odintsov, all sorts of fictions were told about her; it was asserted that she had helped her father in his cardsharping tricks, and even that she had gone abroad for excellent reasons, that it had been necessary to conceal the lamentable consequences … Chapter XV
  • There was an immediate outcry. Prior consent is a condition of genetic testing.
  • Ministers vowed to end the practice in 2010 following widespread public outcry. The Sun
  • It appeared, as well as I could decree, that the cause of his ejaculative outcry was the discovery of perhaps three, perhaps four, other young men, in coats of the same shiny material as my escorts. The Day of the Boomer Dukes
  • Only an international outcry can move these bureaucrats to honor the constitution instead of the concordat.
  • Seneca and Burrus smoothed over the public outcry.
  • The passionate outcry in the middle of this poem is reminiscent of Sep. Sep's God withholds his love from man.
  • There will be no outcry from the corporate sector about the disarray in the accountancy profession.
  • When, early in 1887, a force of 500 Italian soldiers was massacred in Africa, there was a national outcry and demands for strong government.
  • With this, the poor Creatures perceiving the danger that threatned them, made a sad shreek and outcry, and I came time enough to save all their lives. Bucaniers of America:
  • The outcry that followed the recent Citizens United decision shed light on the growing rift between American consumers desperate for a fair shake and a Supreme Court that has moved speedily into the seediest corners of corporatism. Want Another Warren Court? Try Justice Warren
  • The bombing caused an international outcry.
  • The outcry in the press would be tremendous!
  • In the one case a growing sense of quiet desperation that will probably remain muted, in the other a prolonged outcry against the conditions that create that desperation in the first place. Updike, John
  • Major protests occurred this year, causing an international outcry. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a huge public outcry following the deaths in May because the bus had no seatbelts.
  • There was an immediate outcry. Prior consent is a condition of genetic testing.
  • The pair had scarcely crawled up among the luggage upon the stage-top, before there was an outcry from the passengers on the box in front -- "Uncock your pistols! uncock your pistols!" for the officer had dropped his fire-arms, cocked and capped, upon the top of our coach, with the muzzles pointed towards us. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
  • What would you have done if the children had been taken into care but had been returned following a public outcry?
  • The vuvuzela outcry is mainly coming from those, like my friend, who are watching the tournament abroad. Global Voices in English » South Africa: To vuvuzela or not to vuvuzela?
  • The title raised an outcry and sparked protests in parts of India, because close The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • But last year the public outcry about these dirty deeds finally reached critical mass, shaming the drug companies' Washington lickspittles into looking at their shoes when their longtime patrons came calling for favors.
  • As Bermudians continue to react - unfavourably for the most part - to their government's acceptance of former Guantanamo Bay detainees as full citizens of the tiny island, bloggers comment on yesterday's protest and what the public outcry could mean for the nation's Premier. Global Voices in English » Bermuda: Guantanamo Protest
  • The video sparked a national outcry last week with commentators, including the Cabinet, labelling it racist.
  • But the film would have portrayed her as a thief and there was a public outcry in Monaco. Times, Sunday Times
  • If something similar happened in an inner city school there would be an outcry about lawless youngsters embracing a culture of violence.
  • The prospect of increased prices has already provoked an outcry.
  • The camp hit the headlines when scenes of destruction similar to damage after an earthquake sparked an international outcry.

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