Sentence examples for prompt a backlash from inspiring English sources

But he warned that unjustified arrests, and efforts by the security services to control local religious leaders, would prompt a backlash and potentially provoke the extremism it is intended to prevent.

The alliance of both sides in the Tikrit operation is seen as an important development in the battle against Isis but the presence of Shia forces in Sunni areas could prompt a backlash in the future.

While Canada is often lauded for its past role as a haven for black slaves fleeing the United States, the Canadian government historically tried to prevent black immigration, out of fear that it might prompt a backlash from whites.

So community engagement in the fight against climate change may have a flip side, predicts Dieter Helm of Oxford University: rising bills could prompt a backlash against climate-change goals.The subsidy is designed to help make solar technology affordable by stimulating mass production and innovation.

The United States also watered down language on duty-free market access in a final communique today for fear that any broad commitment to open markets here would prompt a backlash from Congress and undermine support for the Clinton administration's push to grant China permanent normal trade status.

This might prompt a backlash against freewheeling capitalism.

It was also shown on South African TV station Netwerk24 and prompted a backlash.

The bill prompted a backlash from business leaders and senior Republicans, including Mitt Romney.

It seems as if those elections either dried up the well or prompted a backlash.

The push to localize education may have also prompted a backlash.

But that trend prompted a backlash as vociferous as any in American political history.