uproar的意思|uproar的解释-里氏词典

uproar ['ʌprɒ:]

n. 骚动, 喧嚣

uproar

[ noun ]

a state of commotion and noise and confusion

<noun.state>

loud confused noise from many sources

<noun.event>

Uproar \Up"roar\, n. [D. oproer; akin to G. aufruhr, Dan.
opr["o]r, Sw. uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS.
hr?ran to stir, hr?r stirring, active, G. r["u]hren to stir,
OHG. ruoren, Icel. hr[ae]ra, Dan. r["o]re, Sw. r["o]ra. Cf.
{Rearmouse}.]

Note: [In verse, sometimes accented on the second syllable.]
Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion;
bustle and clamor.

But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city
on an uproar. --Acts xvii.
5.

Uproar \Up*roar"\, v. t.
To throw into uproar or confusion. [Obs.] ``Uproar the
universal peace.'' --Shak.

Uproar \Up*roar"\, v. i.
To make an uproar. [R.] --Carlyle.

He is a leader of the whole deaf community." _ Gallaudet University student Sherri Lambert, commenting on the uproar caused by the appointment of a new president of the college for the deaf who is not deaf herself and does not understand sign language.
The article created an uproar in medical circles and prompted a Cook County grand jury last week to subpoena the AMA to force it to disclose the doctor's identity.
He was too power-hungry (and) obsessed with matters of status." On her relationship with astrologer Joan Quigley, which she began after the assassination attempt and continued until its disclosure created an uproar: "Joan was helpful and comforting.
Historically, there is no louder uproar among politicians and press than the thunder evoked by the suggestion that foreigners, especially the backward Soviets, had outwitted Uncle Sam.
A gay Episcopal priest who caused an uproar with his comments on celibacy and monogamy says he will not honor a request that he refrain from priestly duties while the diocese investigates his views.
The state's Criminal Justice Board voted last month to stop furloughs for inmates convicted of homicides in "crimes of passion." But in most states, the uproar over furloughs died with the Dukakis campaign.
"But if you suggest a change, immediately there is this uproar, people saying, `Oh, those women.
There would have been an uproar if they hadn't." Jim Pissot, a wildlife specialist with the National Audubon Society, said there are indications that the regional director's decision "raised a few eyebrows" within the Interior Department.
The Supreme Court, which touched off an uproar last year by considering reversal of a 1976 civil rights decision, today upheld the use of a century-old law to fight racial discrimination but barred using it to protect minorities against harassment.
The move caused an uproar, and France and the Vatican pressured Syrian President Hafez Assad to call off the assault.
Today, Ms. Schwartz, as well as some of her critics, feels the uproar has only raised consciousness in corporate America and done nothing to undermine Catalyst's clout.
The uproar has somewhat shifted attention away from the Iran-contra scandal.
The Newsweek report followed Mason's resignation last week from Republican mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani's campaign amid an uproar over remarks Mason made about blacks and published in the weekly newspaper Village Voice.
The disclosures created an uproar among the present White House press office staff and was criticized by a broad range of professionals in the public relations business, who said it damaged his credibility.
His demands that a border treaty be linked to Polish concessions also caused an uproar, and he withdrew them earlier this week while at the same time proposing the resolution passed today.
Neither of the two chemists whose Utah experiments triggered the cold fusion uproar, Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons, were at the meeting.
Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" caused worldwide uproar among Moslems, remains under strict security and spends only a few weeks in the same house, it was reported Monday.
But enough fixed-price arrangements are already signed and sealed to keep aerospace executives in an uproar.
Bourassa's term before the language uproar last winter was unusually quiet as Quebec settled into a period of strong economic growth, leading to speculation that the Parti Quebecois could be facing its last days.
The professor recently created an uproar by making anti-Jewish statements.
"It seems to me that the federal prosecutors, out of fairness, should do something more than play a tape that causes a media uproar, then clam up," wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator.
The Florida system went into effect in 1986 to avoid the kind of uproar that engulfed Congress.
Senators who defeated a constitutional amendment against burning the American flag say the uproar may have eased slightly in recent weeks but the issue remains a sore point with many voters.
The uproar over "Roe Vs.
Recall also that as with AIDS early on, it took a huge public uproar just to get the Warner-Lambert/NIMH study of tacrine off the ground.
It is their fault." He also told reporters while flying to Ohio that Democrats "have not come forward with a package" at the talks, a remark that touched off a Democratic uproar.
Moreover, the latest uproar came on a day in which Reagan received recommendations from his Drug Policy Board, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese III.
These are just two instances of how vulnerable the United States economy is to actions over which is has relatively little control. The latest, of course, is the Mideast uproar, which threatens higher domestic oil prices.
Concern over legal entanglements and the uproar of investors who would be suprised to discover that bonds sold as noncallable are being called led several underwriters to refrain from participating.
But their Berlin attorney warned of an uproar damaging to Germany's reputation unless Bonn reverses its rejection of Berlin's plea that the Jews, who fled after Iraqi missiles hit Tel Aviv, be given residence permits on humanitarian grounds.

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