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Nevertheless, such opulent criminality, in a country where average annual per capita income is roughly $1,100, may well help to fuel popular outrage, instability, and unrest.
There is simply not enough outrage – except from young people themselves.
But Macron also said two things that caused outrage on social media and led to accusations of racism.
The outrage evoked by Macron’s remark, however, appears to have little to do with its inaccuracy.
Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, has repeatedly expressed outrage at American air strikes that have killed civilians – most recently in August, when he said that 95 Afghans, including 50 children, were killed in the bombing of a village.
Though public outrage may have forced him to retreat, his disposition to attack will soon make itself felt elsewhere.
No doubt, countries to which these measures are applied will express outrage.
Yet people continue to react to explicit revelations of such manipulation with shock and outrage.
The Mugabe regime has committed outrage after outrage.
The consequences of a new terrorist outrage originating from any nation south of the US-Mexican border would be devastating for that country, let alone for the victims of such an attack.
The FBI’s intent, it seems, is to prompt lawmakers to respond to public outrage.
While the outrage that followed the appointment of another European as IMF Managing Director in 2011 is likely to ensure that the Fund’s next head will not hail from Europe, the IMF’s fast-diminishing role means that it will not matter much.
to express their outrage.
But while foreign companies may act more aggressively to capture market share in new areas, they are obviously not the only offenders, as demonstrated by the wave of outrage against banks and American corporations after the financial crisis.
Yet there was no international inquiry, mainly because oil interests trumped moral outrage.
They feel confirmed in their belief that, for most Western governments, outrage over Iran’s terrorist activities counts less than the lure of business.
Now, the US is essentially playing the role of agitator, offering little more than displays of moral outrage and stale references to a stillborn Geneva process.
In any case, moral outrage, however justified, is not a sufficient reason for going to war.
Fortunately, international outrage, including a campaign organized by North American economists, helped to free Cavallo.
The lesson will not be lost on them that no statement is so outrageous that the news media will not cover it, and that the benefits of increased attention outweigh the political costs of the outrage.
However, slavery continues under new names, stirring less public outrage or attention than past violations of civil liberties.
In the United Kingdom, Amazon, Starbucks, and Google attracted public outrage in 2013 for using loopholes to pay almost no tax, prompting the UK government to lead a G8 tax announcement aimed at reducing tax evasion and avoidance.
The outrage of Australia’s conservatives reminds me of the reaction I received when I testified before the US Congress in 2013 that we should “keep our coal in the ground where it belongs.”
Such outrage over corruption is mirrored in the popular unrest sweeping across other large and apparently successful emerging-market economies.
The barbaric beheadings that are broadcast and disseminated through social media are designed to shock and outrage – and thereby capture attention.
But if they can outrage and frustrate citizens of the state into taking self-defeating actions, they can hope to prevail.
The proposal will be met with outrage from many governments, especially, but not exclusively, Germany’s, and will be dismissed by the many political candidates who treat sovereign debt, built up by the incumbents they are seeking to depose, as the devil’s work.
The problem is that many of their victims were civilians, not military personnel or government officials, causing outrage among the Israeli public.
If a fair division is not received, it elicits cries of outrage and hurled food by the wronged partner.
So why should a civilian death be acceptable if it occurs as a side-effect of combat that serves a worthy end, whereas a civilian death that is inflicted deliberately as a means to the same end is a terrorist outrage?
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