The ban hints at the authorities' rising sensitivity to public ire.

Now the usual pattern of censorship and retribution, combined with a show of placating public ire, appears to be under way.

His first order was to wage war on the sort of behaviour by government officials that generates the most public ire.

Cheap and relatively quick to build, they may emit carbon but tend not to stoke the public ire against new coal plants.

Many companies have caught much public ire for their decisions to use foreign labor for customer service and technical support, mostly because of the apparent language barrier that it creates.