Otherwise, the chain's main product may soon generate nostalgia for a more innocent age when standardization was still a novelty and nobody could have foreseen a backlash against the ubiquitous.
Did he really not foresee the backlash that has ensued – the howls across the blogosphere and Twitter, the Facebook petition to boycott Whole Foods?
He argued forcefully that the Smithsonian should wait out the controversy, and that just as his bosses were "too sanguine" about the possible criticism from the right, so too were they failing to foresee the backlash on the left.
For Sir Philip Hampton to say that he and the others on the board of RBS could not foresee the backlash that would follow the award of a near-million pound bonus to Mr Hester beggars belief.
I think the political storm is drawing to an end and I do not foresee another backlash.
Republicans in Richmond hastily rewrote their bill, requiring merely an obligatory abdominal ultrasound rather than the use of a vaginal probe.The fact that Mr McDonnell had not foreseen a public backlash to the vaginal-ultrasound requirement seems, to some, to illustrate his tone-deafness and inattention to detail.
In the book, which was excerpted recently in The New York Times Magazine, Mr. Phillips foresees a reformist backlash, such as the ones that followed the 1920's and the Gilded Age in the late 19th century.
The most likely source would be the financial markets, whose swoon in 2008 prompted many congressmen (but not Mr Barrow) to reconsider their opposition to a bail-out of foundering banks.Bob Bennett, a former Republican senator from Utah sacked by his state party for ideological lapses, including a vote for the bank bail-out, foresees an electoral backlash against such purism.
Bernie McSherry, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at Cuttone & Co., also foresees a public backlash against high-frequency traders who step in front of retail orders.
Could M.L.B. have foreseen the critical and online backlash?
