Sentence examples for target of outrage from inspiring English sources

In the politically charged environment of 2015, he proved an irresistible target of outrage.

After a year of steady revelations about his cover-ups and kind words for abusive priests, Cardinal Law had become the emblem of the sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed and forced change on the American Roman Catholic church, the target of outrage and calls for reform.

For the target, there might be no space to help clarify, lessen, correct, or even apologise over the roar of reaction; for the aggressors, the target might be the wrong target of outrage, the information could be spotty, non-existent, wrong, and so on.

The gun-rights group, which operates a powerful lobbying arm, has been a particular target of outrage by many young activists after last week's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, left 17 dead.

The M.T.A. has been a frequent target of public outrage, from the inscrutability of its deficits to the building of its headquarters, which included no-bid contracts, ran $300 million over budget and led to criminal investigations.

Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, a target of public outrage after she fled the doomed ocean liner on a near-empty lifeboat, penned the two-page letter in London a month after the disaster.

A few weeks after being released, in June 1981, Mr. Abbott, now a darling in leftist literary circles, stabbed to death a waiter in a Lower East Side restaurant, and his champion became a target of national outrage.

This summer, when nearly a million Brazilians took to the streets to protest their government's economic policies, its plan to host the Olympics (as well as the 2014 World Cup, with its own thirteen-billion-dollar price tag) became a central target of their outrage.

In a sign of how fast the ground was shifting, the Interior Ministry, enforcer of the old police state and a prime target of public outrage, removed the walls of concrete blocks erected to protect it from repeated assaults by protesters since the original revolt began.

Exploding banderillas (the barbed darts placed in the animal's withers during the second act of the corrida) were once routinely used to spark ferocity in bulls, but these were, not surprisingly, the target of much outrage by bullfighting critics as well as aficionados concerned about cruelty to animals and thus are no longer employed.

After calling Georgetown law student Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute," Limbaugh became the target of national outrage and an advertiser boycott.