We should admit, though, that this kind of nannying provokes a backlash.
Every significant change to a free web-based service provokes a backlash from some users, from Facebook and Twitter to The Guardian and Gmail.
The guidelines also take a firm stand that children must learn about evolution, the central organizing idea in the biological sciences for more than a century, but one that still provokes a backlash among some religious conservatives.
–How might schools and teachers handle the relationship between science and religion, especially given that the new guidelines for teaching science take a firm stand that children must learn about evolution — an idea that still provokes a backlash among some religious conservatives?
Increasing extremity in one group provokes a backlash of counter-extremity in other groups, and the vicious downward spiral continues.
Usually, this kind of sensational acclaim provokes a backlash, but that hasn't really happened for "Hamilton," despite a few scholars raising questions about biographical accuracy and some uproar about the skyrocketing price of virtually unobtainable tickets.
