Word: ire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tolo TV, is prospering. Tolo TV's mix of news, sports, music, reality shows and Indian soap operas draws nearly two-thirds of the country's viewers, according to a recent survey by a Kabul consulting company. Tolo, one of six private stations in Afghanistan, has drawn the ire of conservatives who decry its use of female presenters. But its programs appeal to young Afghans (half the population is below the age of 20), and advertisers are stepping up. Saad Mohseni, an Afghan exile who spent most his adult life as a stockbroker in Australia before returning...
...competitor, the University of North Dakota (UND) Fighting Sioux, has drawn ire for its tribe-inspired monicker, leading Dartmouth’s director of athletics to apologize last Wednesday in the school’s newspaper for scheduling the match...
Rumsfeld’s temperament and authoritarian style of leadership have also aroused the ire of eight retired generals (who had already called for his resignation in early 2006), the “Army Times” along with three other papers with a military readership, and numerous politicians from both major parties. Almost all his critics point to his arrogance, his refusal to acknowledge his mistakes, his lack of respect for the armed forces, and his officious inclination towards military micromanagement. Former Army Chief of Staff Eric K. Shinseki, the one lone voice in the DoD who had dared...
...Despite the good fortunes on display for Democrats, the IOP’s big screen was tuned to FOX for much of the night, drawing ire from attendees with liberal leanings...
...while the organization—which drew nationwide coverage earlier this month when pro-immigrant students at Columbia University rushed the stage during a speech by founder Jim Gilchrist—expected to draw the ire of many, it may not have counted on the opposition of certain citizens of Massachusetts, who are vigilantly patrolling the use of the moniker “Minuteman...