Sentence examples for uncomfortable backlash from inspiring English sources
To allow unfettered news media coverage of the race was out of the question, but to strangle the news online of a major international story might have provoked an uncomfortable backlash from China's increasingly savvy Internet users.
For such people, who claim to be "outraged" at almost anything that they don't like or feel uncomfortable with, there is always a risk that honesty will bring out a backlash.
"It's stimulating!" he insisted, his fortysomething daughter now clearly uncomfortable "C'mon, Dad!" After tweeting about the incident, she was shocked by the backlash it provoked.
Immigration limits were vigorously opposed by Swiss industry and the government in Berne, which is now in the uncomfortable position of having to write the referendum result into law while limiting the backlash from Brussels and big neighbours like Germany and France.
He can curse on the golf course, duck uncomfortable issues, receive a reported $60 million a year to pitch corporate products and withdraw from events with little backlash.
"That fact that the backlash initiated a conversation about [PrEP] on some level -- an issue that people are really uncomfortable talking about -- I feel like that was my contribution".
Its regime, dominated by the minority Alawite sect that is an offshoot of Shia Islam, faces growing unrest, and is wary of provoking a religious backlash from its majority Sunni population.While the show of Saudi willpower appears to have secured an uncomfortable calm in Bahrain, the potentially much more dangerous problem of Yemen festers (see article).
Andrews, a close ally of Abbott, was then forced into the uncomfortable position of trying to explain why cutting welfare to all people under the age of 30 might induce public backlash.
During the coming months, the government faces a potential backlash from business tycoons who made their fortunes in the old political system and from elements in the military uncomfortable with the overtures to the opposition.
