Sentence examples for surge of outrage from inspiring English sources

Thankfully, after a surge of outrage, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) stepped in to rescind the directive.

Some critics have also said that the recent surge of outrage about child pornography and pedophilia is driven by a moral panic reminiscent of 19th-century vice crusades.

In 2007, there was a surge of outrage when news spread about a German Army training video in which a soldier was told to imagine himself in the Bronx confronting hostile African-Americans as he fired his machine gun.

LONDON — Britain was awash in a new surge of outrage over the phone hacking scandal on Thursday as news emerged that Scotland Yard had added to the list of probable victims a woman whose 8-year-old daughter was murdered by a repeat sex offender in 2000.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syria's downward spiral into more hellish conflict in cities like Homs has provoked a new surge of outrage around the world, with Arab and many Western countries searching for new ways to support protesters and activist groups coming under the government's increasingly lethal assault.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers supporting a bipartisan bill in the Senate to overhaul the immigration system faced a surge of outrage last week from gay rights advocates after a provision those groups supported was left off the legislation in committee at the last minute.

Members of the older generation suddenly found themselves on the defensive as they were asked: "What did you know about it at the time?" Young Germans felt a surge of moral outrage that their parents' generation had buried the truth of the second world war.

But the move was also made, several current and former U.S. officials with Africa experience say, in an atmosphere colored by the ongoing political fallout from the September 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead and caused a surge of partisan outrage on Capitol Hill.

Short of a late surge of widespread public outrage and an inconceivable volte-face on the part of the government, one of the most important protections for disabled people, the Independent Living Fund (ILF), will soon cease to exist in England.

And the administration's troubles multiplied: 50,000 homeless people crowded into shelters and roamed the streets and subways, and there was a surge of crack-related crimes and growing outrage in minority communities over claims of police brutality.

Expressions of outrage follow.