Sentence examples for a powerful backlash from inspiring English sources

Trade unions and social democratic parties were part of a powerful backlash that included less benign movements such as communism and fascism.

Their policies, rooted in the cold calculation of American interests, generated a powerful backlash from both liberals, angered by the brutalization of the third world, and conservatives, who objected to the coddling of Communists.

The shooting of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, the first state to adopt with Alec's help a stand-your-ground law, led to a powerful backlash against the lobbying network.

But a year later, in the spring before the 2000 presidential election, Mr. Kohut said that "we began to see signs of a powerful backlash, especially among men, in rural places where hunting is important".

North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi all passed laws that, in different ways, made discrimination against L.G.B.T. people legal, and all faced a powerful backlash not just from progressive activists but also from big corporations.

As long ago as 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson foretold that the landmark civil rights legislation he engineered would be met with a powerful backlash from aggrieved Southern whites.

Signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory on March 23, the bill has received both a powerful backlash-with musicians like Bruce Springsteen, Nick Jonas, and Demi Lovato canceling tour dates in the state -- and an outpouring of support.

The more angry the subjugated population becomes at the dictator and us for backing him, the more we feel an urgency to help prop up the dictator for fear of an ever-more powerful backlash against that dictator and, by extension, us.

Some see Mr. Gulen as part of a slow-motion but powerful backlash against the secularization of Turkey nearly a century ago under Kemal Ataturk, which Muslims saw as a wrenching blow to traditional values but which secularists deemed vital to modernization.

In "The Great A.&P. and the Struggle for Small Business in America" (Hill & Wang, $27.95), Marc Levinson tells of A.& P.'s expansion and the powerful backlash it engendered in a way that draws unmistakable parallels to the retail battles of today.

Similarly, the sale of wine in grocery stores, in addition to beer, would add $250 million in fees — but has ignited a powerful lobbying backlash.