In each city quick public reaction and fast action by the city government halted the threats of more serious incidents.

Where the industry's product price has been kept below the `` profit-maximizing '' and `` entry-limiting '' prices due to fears of public reaction, the profit seeking producers have an interest in offering little real resistance to wage demands.

His visual image, characterized by his long hair, mustache and big rings, softened the reaction of the otherwise conservative Turkish public opinion.

Perhaps his two most influential ideas are the concepts of the public sphere and communicative action ; the latter arriving partly as a reaction to new post-structural or so-called " post-modern " challenges to the discourse of modernity.

Silent Spring was a best seller, and public reaction to it launched the modern environmental movement in the United States.

Modern Orthodox Judaism developed in reaction to Reform Judaism, by leaders who argued that Jews could participate in public life as citizens equal to Christians, while maintaining the observance of Jewish law.

In 1935, Sir Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador to Germany, complained to London about Ribbentrop's British associates in the Anglo-German Fellowship, that they created " false German hopes as in regards to British friendship and caused a reaction against it in England, where public opinion is very naturally hostile to the Nazi regime and its methods ".

Although some chroniclers felt that John had been humiliated by the sequence of events, there was little public reaction.

Being the first publications to question the official Macedonian position of the existence of a distinct Macedonian identity going back to the time of Alexander the Great ( Macedonism ), the books triggered a reaction of shock and disbelief in Macedonian public opinion.

When the advertising method is shown to be a complete fraud, the resulting public reaction against the network leads to the chairman being removed, and Grossberg manages to assume the chairmanship.

This was the policy until Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was published promoting a strong public reaction against State interference.

Eisenhower greatly underestimated the reaction of the American public, which was shocked by the launch of Sputnik 1 and by the televised failure of the Vanguard Test Vehicle 3 launch attempt.

However, public reaction to the Sputnik crisis led to the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( renamed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA in 1972 ), NASA, and an increase in U. S. government spending on scientific research and education.

Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin was against the embargo, foreseeing correctly the impossibility of enforcing the policy and the negative public reaction.

When the Treaty of Versailles confirmed the Japanese claim to Shandong and Beijing's sellout became public, internal reaction was shattering.

Afterwards, the public reaction was extremely negative.

Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".

The highly erotic way Offenbach's operettas were originally played, with stars like Hortense Schneider — or the legendary courtesan Cora Pearl, who appeared in a revival of Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers in 1867 completely covered in diamonds and little else — created a scandalized reaction from certain parts of the general public.

However, public reaction to the result of the case was strongly negative and since that time the few cases claiming insanity have found that the altered consciousness found in DID is either irrelevant or the diagnosis was not admissible evidence.

In 1974, fueled by public reaction to the Watergate Scandal, Congress passed amendments to the Act establishing a comprehensive system of regulation and enforcement, including public financing of presidential campaigns and creation of a central enforcement agency, the Federal Election Commission.

Although it had the support of the Hollywood establishment, and received mostly positive reviews, its socio-political outlook provoked a negative reaction among some members of the public.

However, public reaction was largely sympathetic to Patton, and Herman F. Kuhl, Private Kuhl's father, even wrote his own congressman, stating that he forgave Patton for the incident and requesting that he not be disciplined.

The massacres aroused a broad public reaction led by liberal Europeans such as William Ewart Gladstone, who launched a campaign against the " Bulgarian Horrors ".

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

In 2008, more than ten years after the original conviction, Paisley and two other FBI agents went public with praise for Whitacre.

Michael Tori, a professor at Marist College ( Poughkeepsie, New York ) suggested that Moon's conviction helped the Unification Church gain more acceptance in mainstream American society, since it showed that he was financially accountable to the government and the public.

In April 1968, The New York Times — using Telfer as a main source — introduced the XYY genetic condition to the general public in a three-part series on consecutive days that began with a Sunday front-page story about the planned use of the condition as a mitigating factor in two murder trials in Paris and Melbourne — and falsely reported that Richard Speck was an XYY male and that the condition would be used in an appeal of his murder conviction.

On February 25, 2011, public defender James Klein filed an appeal of Guandique's conviction with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

However, a public outcry was brewing among the London populace who saw a sinister irony in the parallels between the conviction of Fisher and that of his patronal namesake, Saint John the Baptist, who was executed by King Herod Antipas for challenging the validity of Herod's marriage to his brother's divorcée Herodias.

The Daily Mail ran a campaign against his bid and Liberal Democrats ' financial spokesperson Vince Cable suggested in the House of Commons that Branson's criminal conviction for tax evasion might be felt by some as a good enough reason not to trust him with public money

" Its electric chair has had a long history of use, with its use dating to the period before 1936 when public executions were still conducted in Kentucky for punishment for some crimes ( e. g., rape, see for example Rainey Bethea ), with electrocutions at Eddyville being strictly reserved for capital punishment for conviction of other crimes ( e. g., murder ).

He had a dislike of public display, considering it hollow and lacking in conviction.

* prosecution-only occurs when evidence collected makes conviction reasonably certain or where prosecution is in the public interest.

In 2009 the California Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Richard Allen Davis, finding that the public safety exception applied despite the fact that 64 days had passed from the disappearance of the girl later found to be murdered.

These facts have made public displays of religious piety by political leaders important to a large sector of the population ; lacking an established church, they may seek public assurance of those leaders ' religious beliefs or general sense of moral conviction.

If details of a spent conviction are made public by others with malice, the publisher may be subject to libel damages despite the fact that what is said is true.

The only form of true statement actionable under U. S. defamation law is " public disclosure of private facts ", which would be inapplicable here because the existence of the non-voided conviction is a matter of public record.

In addition, most civil disabilities attendant upon a federal felony conviction, such as loss of the right to vote and hold state public office, are imposed by state rather than federal law, and also may be removed by state action.

Following his trial and conviction in France, Garaudy was hailed in the Muslim world and received substantial financial, political and public support.

He wrote the opinion in Terminiello v. City of Chicago ( 1949 ) overturning the conviction of a Catholic priest who allegedly caused a " breach of the peace " by making anti-Semitic comments during a raucous public speech.

A case will only be prosecuted firstly, if there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction against each defendant on each charge, and secondly, if it is in the public interest to prosecute.

However, in spite of his great success as a platform speaker, he was generally felt to be speaking from an " advocate's brief ", and did not impress the public as a conviction politician.

" The sexual assault trial of basketball player Kobe Bryant in Colorado brought this device and its use to public attention before the case was dropped in 2004, because Colorado law would have required evaluation with this device following conviction.

Operation Avalanche was a major US investigation of child pornography on the Internet launched in 1999 after the arrest and conviction of Thomas and Janice Reedy, who operated an Internet pornography business called Landslide Productions in Fort Worth, Texas It was made public in early August 2001 at the end of Operation Avalanche, that one hundred arrests were made out of 144 suspects.

However, when applying for a state professional license or job that is considered a public office or high security ( such as security guard, law enforcement, or related to national security ), you must confess that you have an expunged conviction or else be denied clearance by the DOJ.

According to historian Ilarion Ţiu, the trial and verdict were received with general apathy, and the only political faction believed to have organized a public rally in connection with it was the outlawed Romanian Communist Party, some of whose members gathered in front of the tribunal to express support for the conviction.