Sentence examples for small uproar from inspiring English sources

" 'Remember, just refer as former senior admin.' " Within minutes, Mr. Matzzie ignited a small uproar on Twitter.

The announcement of the most recent Lilly fellowships caused a small uproar on the Internet because all five winners were men.

But in an oversight that caused a small uproar among viewers, he could not hear the buzzer and continued the course until his son caught his attention from the sidelines.

A1 Exiled Writer Back in China Gao Xingjian, the exiled Chinese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, is creating a small uproar with a three-day visit to Hong Kong for a literature festival.

All the political editors for national daily papers are men, and the number of female correspondents is declining; when Prime Minister David Cameron held a news conference on the coalition government's midterm review in January, there was a small uproar — headlined in political blogs "Where have all the women gone?" — because he failed to take a single question from a female journalist.

The most famous immigrant in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, had just a few weeks earlier set off a small uproar at a National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention by declaring that he knew the best way for Hispanic immigrants to learn English well enough for life in the United States: "Turn off the Spanish television," the governor said.

(Scott) 'STEP UP' (PG-13, 98 minutes) Ever since Kevin Bacon's rebellious hips ignited a small-town uproar in "Footloose," the modern high school romance has placed a premium on rhythm.

(Dargis) 'STEP UP' (PG-13, 98 minutes) Ever since Kevin Bacon's rebellious hips ignited a small-town uproar in "Footloose," the modern high school romance has placed a premium on rhythm.

But the allocation of stars had also, in some small way, caused an uproar.

If anything, I saw reports of this uproar as a small pre-Christmas gift.

Near the end of Atwood's novel, Iris tells us that Laura's book caused "uproar" in her small town and that all the speculation about the "true" story behind the novel helped to ruin her husband, Richard.