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However, in response to the public outcry at the proposals, the council has now backtracked claiming talk of closure was a rumour.
British companies are still awarding their executives massive pay bonuses despite a press and shareholder outcry.
The incident was made much of in the American newspapers, and there was a general outcry from the U.S. public.
The company backed down and withdrew the T-shirt uniform after a public outcry.
Norway outlawed smoking in bars and restaurants last June to an outcry from publicans who predicted serious trade shortfalls.
They were released on bail following a public outcry but still faced an uncertain future.
Was the outcry following his appointment based on his management skills or the fact that he wasn't English?
When, early in 1887, a force of 500 Italian soldiers was massacred in Africa, there was a national outcry and demands for strong government.
There would be an outcry and lawsuits if any American city tried such tactics against blacks or gays or members of other minority groups.
Despite the outcry, glottochronology is still employed, but in mathematically increasingly complex and conceptually more sophisticated models.
We've heard a lot about the bellboy, the bellhop that this alleged victim made her immediate outcry to.
The festival was an outcry against everyday life and a short escape from the treadmill of the work-eat-sleep regime.
But often the outcry over the loss of a rural post office only starts when it has closed or is on the point of closing.
Only an international outcry can move these bureaucrats to honor the constitution instead of the concordat.
Whether the public believed him was immaterial, though any public outcry in support of the union message could only be helpful.
We can't risk a similar outcry over Easter like the kind we had on Pancake Day.
Yesterday, the chief constable and the police authority issued a joint statement in a fresh bid to quell the outcry.
That makes the outcry in the US against outsourcing a good example of much ado about nothing.
The action followed a public outcry over revelations that the church hierarchy covered up claims of abuse.
There he made statements, which have raised a massive and understandable outcry in the Italian press.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest.
Indeed, there has been a public outcry against the suspicious vitality of the Zapata movement.
Mother was told under threat of a whupping not to make any outcry when I was carried away.
The outcry of the local banks reached the legislative council, and it was proposed to make a Treasury bill a legal tender.
A great outcry was raised against the monetary policy which had been initiated by Sir Robert Peel.
We were pushing up river on our way to the wilderness, when a great outcry and the bang-bang of a gun sounded just ahead.
Great was the outcry at this wastefulness, on the part of some of the tax payers.
The outcry against Guarini on this occasion was so great that he found himself obliged to put forth an exculpatory statement.
But there was an outcry, as there has been at every fitting, because I won't wear stays.
In the towns there was an outcry against corn merchants, who were guilty of forestalling and regrating.
As she spoke, Jo took off her bonnet, and a general outcry arose, for all her abundant hair was cut short.
Some of us will have to be ashamed of our outcry after our dead.
The stout, healthy boy took the scourging without an outcry.
It were a pity, if all this outcry should draw no customers.
It was not until the boundaries were announced at the March 25 board meeting that public outcry began,'' she said.
The experts tell us that shouting is 'vociferation', denoting a scream, shout, shriek, hoot, holler, vociferation, yell, outcry.
The outcry was renewed, and the order, not only to fire again, but to pursue, was too plainly audible.
The more usual words in old English were outcry, outrope and port sale.
Pratt testified that she heard no outcry, and did not know what woke her up, unless it was the sound of rapid footsteps approaching the front door.
Every January without fail, there is the annual outcry about the rising cost of rail travel, with fares being increased by an amount over inf lation.
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