Sentence examples for ferocious backlash from inspiring English sources

People have tried, of course, and there's been a ferocious backlash.

The halfhearted efforts of the Pakistani Army to oppose its radical protégés there had created a ferocious backlash.

Then came the Liu Xiaobo attack — the notorious "Black Horse" essay — and the ferocious backlash it inspired.

But, if he was going to suffer a ferocious backlash back home, he needed the White House to be as committed as he was.

Videos of children's bodies and angry tribesmen holding up American missile parts flooded You Tube, fueling a ferocious backlash that Yemeni officials said bolstered Al Qaeda.

All are anxious to avoid the ferocious backlash faced by Hillary Clinton when she proposed a top-down approach in 1993, dubbed "Hillarycare" by its critics.

America has deployed drones into these power vacuums, causing ferocious backlashes against central governments while destroying any positive image of the United States that may have once existed.

The lure of no-questions-asked jobs drew millions of new illegal immigrants, and that invasion fed a ferocious popular backlash.

The French finance minister argues that a hostile government and hostile stakeholders can ultimately scupper a deal citing the example of the bid by CNOOC, a Chinese firm, for Unocal, an American oil company; an offer that was ultimately withdrawn by CNOOC itself, in the face of a ferocious political backlash in the United States.

The expulsions coincide with a ferocious Iranian government backlash against the protesters, who have claimed that the presidential elections of 12 June were rigged to give the president, ­Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a landslide.

The prospect of further austerity has whipped up widespread anger among Greeks with unions vowing a ferocious "and possible uncontrollable" backlash.