Sentence examples for intense furor from inspiring English sources

But the properly intense furor over Mr. Clinton's pardon of Mr. Rich led Senator Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader, to suggest that Congress might need to review the president's unilateral power to dispense pardons.

Gov. David A. Paterson went to Wall Street on Wednesday, not to pillory financiers, as perhaps many of his constituents would have liked, but to praise them and defend the hefty year-end bonuses that have provoked intense furor.

So intense was the furor that Simon & Schuster killed the book just before its scheduled publication, after gory details from its pages appeared in the press, then watched its rival house, Knopf, pick it up and reap a ton of free publicity.

The resulting furor focused intense scrutiny on Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

The furor became so intense that Mr. Annenberg, after trying to explain the project by means of an advertisement in The New York Times, abruptly decided to drop it.

The decision by House and Senate Republican leaders to press forward with a rare bicameral investigation reflected an intense push to quell the furor surrounding the hurricane relief effort and respond to worries by members of their own party that majority Republicans were suffering politically.

Clinton's increasingly intense efforts to clear the fog surrounding her over the email server furor are simply explained: her standing among voters continues to tumble.

He was under intense political pressure from the White House and Capitol Hill to curb the furor over the rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the previous weekend, as well as continuing resentment over Bear Stearns.

When the late Richard Herrnstein and I published "The Bell Curve" eleven years ago, the furor over its discussion of ethnic differences in IQ was so intense that most people who have not read the book still think it was about race.

He came under intense scrutiny this year over his past as a leftist revolutionary in the 70's, but had appeared to be emerging from the furor.

What caused the furor?