Rebecca Robertson, the legal and policy director for the A.C.L.U. of Texas, said the situation is not unique in that people willing to stand up "are often subjected to backlash".
The sequence is familiar by now: throughout history, women who speak out against powerful men – as Machado did, for instance, in the New York Times earlier this year – have been subject to a backlash.
"People who violate social role expectations based on widely shared cultural stereotypes are subject to perceivers' backlash".
"People who violate social role expectations based on widely shared cultural stereotypes are subject to perceivers' backlash, such as social and economic sanctions and sabotage.
This paper studies an adaptive neural tracking control problem for a class of strict-feedback stochastic nonlinear systems with guaranteed predefined performance subject to unknown backlash-like hysteresis input.
Like many things from the nineteen-seventies, the treatment of oligopoly was subject to an enormous backlash in the nineteen-eighties and nineteen-nineties.
"Government will rightly be subject to an almighty backlash from Leave voters, if it makes decisions that make them far poorer and leaves less money for public services," he said.
The specific case of a preloaded mechanical oscillator having a periodically time-varying stiffness function and subject to a symmetric backlash condition is considered.
And since then, Nelson's been subject to an intense backlash for cutting this deal, and has been trying to walk it back.
In post-Mubarak Egypt, women have been subjected to a backlash so the space for contestation is highly inhibited.
