Example sentences for: uproar

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  • Thursday, the Guardian said in an editorial: "Worse than neo-Nazism proper and the dribble of neo-Nazi incidents in the west is the fact that West Germans who would not consciously embrace racist or far right ideas, seem ready to work themselves up into a hysterical state over immigrants and foreigners, as the recent uproar over Kurds shows.

  • The 19 th edition was released in 1997 but was recalled in April of last year because of an uproar from breeders who contended that the book's "breed profiles" perpetrated pernicious stereotypes.

  • This created a predictable (and justified) uproar at the paper, which caused the publisher, Kathryn Downing, to apologize and mumble some nonsense about how she was unfamiliar with newspaper etiquette, which encouraged reporters and editors at the paper to push editor Michael Parks to assign a story about the whole fiasco, which he eventually did (to David Shaw, the paper's Pulitzer-winning media critic).

  • The Washington Post has a one-deck banner ("Judge Orders Lewinsky to Cooperate") about the resulting "uproar," the latest one to distract senators.

  • The latest uproar against President Clinton's racial-dialogue project concerns a meeting in Dallas, moderated by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, to which only blacks were invited.


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