Outcry \Out"cry`\, n. 1. A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.
2. Sale at public auction. --Massinger. --Thackeray.
Food shortages have caused a public outcry.
Isabelle Penzler, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, acknowledges that while these restrictions have never touched off a public outcry, they become for people who covet the right to choose "a burning issue.
When there was outcry in Tulsa over Occidental's acquisition of Cities Service Co., the collection came for a visit.
Russian participants were Russky Sakhar, the Eastern European Company and Prodimpex. Officials said trading would be based on the electronic board system, and not open outcry as planned initially.
A French company said it will suspend distribution of a controversial abortion pill following an "outcry of public opinion at home and abroad" against the drug.
The policy was prompted by an outcry last spring when an enterprising student marketed a T-shirt stating 15 reasons "Why Beer is Better than Women at Tufts."
Talk about outlawing tuk-tuks usually sparks a public outcry in defense of the cheap form of transportation.
But public outcry prompted city leaders to put on the ballot the issue of whether to buy and set aside the entire property.
The media storm and public outcry pushed the committee ill-prepared into nationally televised hearings, and the panel then compounded its problems by imposing a one-week deadline that diminished the effectiveness of its inquiry.
That has caused an outcry among consumers, and the Communist Party newspaper Pravda has said it receives more letters about the pending price increases than almost any other topic.
The case is the latest in a series of stock scandals that have shaken political and business circles in Japan and sparked public outcry for stricter controls over insider trading.
The proposals have provoked an outcry from hunters and the well-organised gun lobby.
The Sandoz disaster and a rash of smaller chemical accidents last year, including two at Ciba-Geigy, triggered a public outcry and demands for stricter chemical industry standards.
In fact, Congress reacted with hearings and there was a short public outcry.
China's reformist leaders have instituted tough rules to quell a nationwide student outcry for democracy, freedom and human rights.
But if this increases London's importance in the growing European derivatives markets, the Bank of England is unlikely to shed any tears for the open outcry market.
Trading at the Athens Stock Exchange is conducted by open outcry and transactions are in cash with a 24-hour settlement.
The forced repatriation triggered an international outcry, in part because of concern that the boat people would be punished upon their return home.
The memo led to the resignation last week of an Atwater aide, Mark Goodin, and caused an outcry from Democrats.
"The public outcry at the tragic death of Lisa Steinberg should have been repeated a thousand times over last year," Anne Cohn, executive director of the group, said Tuesday.
Mr Park said the opening of the Korean rice market was inevitable, and that Korea would agree to allowing 3-5 per cent of its rice demand to be met by imports. The outcry demonstrates the sensitivity of the issue.
"But I can understand when kids are shot down by an automated weapon _ semiautomated weapon or automated, whichever it was _ why, I can certainly understand the public outcry."
Three major Wall Street firms capitulated to an investor outcry, abandoning or curtailing a computerized trading strategy widely blamed for turmoil in the stock market.
But a public outcry _ joined in by police _ over the widespread availability of semiautomatic weapons changed the atmosphere.
The outcry stemmed from continuing economic crisis in one of Yugoslavia's poorest republics.
In a child abuse case that has sparked an outcry from advocates for battered women, a woman and her former husband have been indicted in the beating death of the woman's 2-year-old son.
Monday's killing by Israeli police of 19 Arabs during a riot in Jerusalem brought international outcry and united Arab nations against Israel, a close ally of the United States.
The prisoners include two Palestinians charged with slayings that caused highly emotional public outcry: _ Nidal Zaloum, 28, stabbed two elderly Israelis to death at a Jerusalem bus stop on May 3.
Tens of thousands of people marched through Baghdad and surrounded the British Embassy today to protest Britain's outcry over Iraq's execution of a London-based journalist.
But Corey Rosen, executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership, doubted that if the department's stand were tested in court and upheld it could survive the subsequent public outcry.