Politicians of all hues have raised concerns about the deal, which would see one company control a vast swath of media assets and their distribution.
The group's rise has imbued the opposition with an unmistakable Islamicist hue while raising fears of a sectarian bloodbath in the event that Assad falls: Syria is home to Sunni, Alawite, Druze, Christians and Yazidi.
All of this is good news for someone planning an armed raid, but Langewiesche rejects that option: the hue and cry raised after the theft would make escape from Russia with the precious bricks of H.E.U., though not impossible, uncomfortably hazardous.
There has been much hue and cry raised by traditionalists concerned about the loss of a great British literary institution.
That show contained another photograph, Klara and Edda Belly Dancing, by Nan Goldin, about which no hue and cry was raised whatsoever.
With the world holding its breath as it awaits American military action, fringe groups of Islamic militants here have raised a hue and cry, warning of retribution.
This time, because of her age and the unlikelihood that she had run away (her money, phone charger and clothes were all at home, and next day was her 17th birthday), a hue and cry was raised.
The killing briefly took the city's collective mind off the high-alert hue of orange, and raised the tantalizing question of whether the murder was good for the restaurant's business.
Labour it was that raised a hue and cry about sleaze when it was in opposition, but which had to return a £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, a motor-racing tycoon who seemed by dint of it to have secured a policy U-turn on tobacco advertising.
It was in Massachusetts that the colonists raised the hue and cry against taxation without representation, as exemplified by the Boston Tea Party; the activism of the Massachusetts colonists inspired others and culminated in the "shot heard round the world" at the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.
