Sentence examples for encounter a backlash from inspiring English sources
In 2012, media critic Anita Sarkeesian created a web video series to point out some of the sexist tropes repeated again and again in video games, only to encounter a backlash from gamers that led to some shitheads emailing her images of her getting raped by game characters, among other misogynist BS.
Efforts to streamline government have encountered a backlash from residents, employees and local elected officials.
Welcomed in many cities, but not by everyone, the companies are already encountering a backlash.
In August, Mr. de Blasio encountered a backlash when he raised the idea of removing the pedestrian plazas in Times Square after complaints about barely clothed entertainers there.
But he runs the risk of turning off at least some potential voters at a time when the Tea Party's influence in Florida has encountered a backlash, said Kevin Wagner, a political science professor at Florida Atlantic University.
The Bush administration encountered a backlash earlier this month when Secretary of Education Rod Paige was quoted in The Baptist Press news service as saying that he would prefer to have a child in a Christian school, partly because the value system was set.
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday encountered a backlash for publishing a full-page advertisement from a group denying the genocide of Armenians during World War I. .
The social rigidity of the 1950s and early 1960s encountered a backlash as social movements to improve the standing of African Americans, the poor, women, and gays all became prominent.
Novelist Jeanette Winterson similarly encountered a fierce backlash against eating rabbit when she posted a photo of one that she'd caught in her garden.
Ideological purity is not the ticket back to the promised land of governing majorities — indeed, it was when we began to emphasize social issues to the detriment of some of our basic tenets as a party that we encountered an electoral backlash.
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".
