The phrase "create a backlash" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the negative reactions or consequences that arise from a particular action, decision, or statement.
Example: "The new policy was so unpopular that it created a backlash among the employees."
Alternatives: "spark a backlash" or "trigger a backlash."
But a blessing from the mayor could create a backlash.
Some believe it may create a backlash against the work.
They apparently feared the ad might create a backlash.
"My gut feeling is this is going to create a backlash".
"If they do that, they will create a backlash," he said.
Unanticipated multibillion-dollar fees in cases based on public suffering are bound to create a backlash.
As a result, these leaders often take overly aggressive approaches with unrealistic timelines that then create a backlash.
But these gimmicks also irritate donors like Mr. Rochlin and raise the question about whether such relentless fund-raising can create a backlash.
The best way to end oppression isn't firepower but rather education and economic empowerment, for men and women alike, in ways that don't create a backlash.
But today the Chinese are prominent on the campuses of Stanford and Berkeley, in engineering labs and orchestras, if not yet in corporate board rooms and politics.If Chinese-Americans as a group have a worry at all, says Mr Chen, it is that their success might create a backlash there are, for instance, plans at some university campuses to tighten admissions policies for Asians.
There's growing concern among researchers that public wariness about the newborn screening program will create a backlash with parents declining to screen their kids (who may end up much sicker because their disease wasn't caught early), and with the spots no longer made available for valuable pediatrics research, such as tracing the origins of childhood leukemia.
