The phrase "a substantial backlash" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant negative reaction or response to an action, event, or decision.
Example: "The new policy led to a substantial backlash from the community, prompting the officials to reconsider their approach."
Alternatives: "a significant backlash" or "a considerable backlash".
While over recent decades both policy-makers and scholars were highlighting the importance of multicultural measures to foster immigrant integration, a substantial backlash on multiculturalism has occurred in the early 21st century (Brubaker, 2001; Entzinger, 2003; Joppke, 2004).
While the headline smashing YouTube/Paris Hilton deal has been an unqualified flop and provoked a substantial backlash on the site, Smirnoff's Tea Partay music video is at least very compelling if not a success.
It's no surprise that the Fight for $15 has generated a substantial backlash, nor is it the first time that a poorly conducted study produced findings convenient to corporations and other low-wage employers.
But before we stick flowers into the barrels of the Special Forces' combat assault rifles and celebrate the transformation of the CIA's drones into Amazon delivery vehicles, let's evaluate what will likely be a very substantial backlash to the Obama doctrine.
A handful of Congressional Republicans, recalling the substantial backlash to the successful GOP effort to roll back internet privacy rules this past March, have asked Pai to slow down or reconsider his push to repeal net neutrality.
When its Street View cars began cruising German suburbs it encountered a substantial public backlash in which so many German businesses and households demanded that their buildings be blurred out that the company eventually caved in and announced in 2011 that it had "no plans to launch new imagery on Street View in Germany".
"I think, because Brock was a substantial influence in getting the Claremont decision passed, that this was in part a great backlash against him," said Beth Rodd, Democrat of Bradford and formerly of Brooklyn.
There is speculation that the companies may attempt to limit any political backlash by structuring the transaction in a way that would leave Israel Corporation as a substantial minority holding in Potash.
We made a substantial bid.
A substantial and satisfying volume.
