Sentence examples for acted in the wake of from inspiring English sources

The commissioner acted in the wake of controversy over a two-game ban given to the Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who did not contest a charge of aggravated assault in a February incident involving his then fiancée.

The Senate acted in the wake of unprecedented obstruction: Republicans at the time were blocking up-or-down votes on appellate judges, high-level administration officials and even a member of Congress nominated to lead an agency.

The emergency meeting of the IAAF council came at the end of a week in which pressure had grown on the governing body to act in the wake of Pound's damning 325-page report.

"Repeated failure to act in the wake of these shootings has allowed more to take place.

Naidoo criticized the leaders present and accused them of only caring about maintaining the status quo, pointing to their failure to act in the wake of the 2008 global financial collapse and the Asian financial crisis a decade earlier.

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga)., the civil rights icon who led sit-ins all through the 1960s, spearheaded the effort with a fiery, sermon-like denunciation of Congress for its failure to act in the wake of mass shootings.

There was ample evidence of that this week as Republicans in North Carolina acted swiftly in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning of portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to pass new election laws that will have the effect of suppressing the participation of voters viewed as less likely to vote Republican.

In the days and months after 9/11, even hinting that Bush had acted poorly in the wake of the attacks or had perhaps not done enough to prevent them (he was warned -- a lot) was immediately beaten down as unpatriotic or "with the terrorists".

And so front-page editorials were published in Chinese financial newspapers calling on investors to act calmly in the wake of the decision, which the editorials argued was intended to promote a healthier development of the stock market.

Amid concerns that the leadership is failing to act decisively in the wake of a series of cases of alleged antisemitism, the Labour MPs Wes Streeting and Anna Turley are calling for new rules to ban the use of antisemitic, Islamophobic or racist language.

Now campaigners are warning that if certain European countries fail to fully acknowledge the role they played in aiding the CIA's abuse of prisoners, they may act similarly in the wake of other major terrorism attacks, such as this month's massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris.