Then, under mounting public outcry, the government put pressure on the Bush administration to release Mr. Hicks or give him a trial.
The politics of energy prices, as well as the mounting public outcry over spiking prices and power blackouts, have transformed the commission from one of Washington's bureaucratic backwaters to the focus of heated debate.
AFTER weeks of mounting public outcry about a 2009 budget proposal that would have included raises for some county employees, Westchester legislators approved a slightly smaller budget without the raises late Monday night.
As well as responding to mounting public outcry, world leaders have also taken up the issue with renewed vigour hoping to repair some of the leaks in their strained national exchequers.
LISBON — In the face of a mounting popular outcry against its austerity measures, Portugal's government on Monday presented a draft budget containing a raft of new tax increases designed to allow Lisbon to meet its agreed deficit targets with international lenders.
Last year, partly in response to the outcry over mounting airline delays, the federal government set aside as much as $40 billion for a three-year program to improve the air-traffic system and airports.
Time Warner Cable Inc. is shelving its plan to bill customers based on how much Internet traffic they generate, following mounting public and political outcry.
In August, under threat of mounting sanctions and international outcry over what was seen as both men's stubbornness in the face of a conflict that has claimed more than 50,000 lives, Kiir and Machar inked a peace deal meant to end the war.
