Sentence examples for business backlash from inspiring English sources

German businessmen, terrified that souring diplomatic relations could incite a business backlash, will be watching future progress with concern.

Well, rumours emerging from Westminster suggest the act is being watered down for fear of a business backlash.

U.S. executives worried about a business backlash to a diplomatic dispute have an example playing out before them in the shape of a festering territorial dispute between China and Japan that flared into anti-Japan violence in September.

Still, both candidates appear to be looking for ways to avoid taking positions that would give them problems in the general election or expose them to a business backlash.

And the business backlash may already have slaked Mr Obama's enthusiasm for regulation; after pulling the plug last autumn on the EPA's stricter ozone rules, the White House recently weakened its proposed new limits on emissions of fine particles by oil refineries, factories and other operations.

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Alistair Darling may provoke a business backlash by raising capital gains tax and proposing a fee for non-domiciled foreigners.

It suffers from business backlashes, but tempers them with ad hoc legislative and regulatory efforts that absorb the worst of the (otherwise) destructive political forces.

On the whole, however, Mr Kerry has backed away from his earlier remarks, as much of the anti-business venom has drained from the offshoring debate.Mark Roe, a Harvard Law School professor, calls such periodic swings in sentiment against big business "backlashes".

(The current "anti-business backlash" is a backlash against cheating, not honest business).

I think there's a considerable risk of an anti-business backlash in this country.

Large companies need to look closely at the role excessive pay is playing in fuelling an anti-business backlash from the public and some politicians".