English example sentences with "backlash"

The bribery scandal created a backlash overseas.

Do you expect a backlash?

Mennad was afraid of the backlash he was going to get.

If governments impose green tax hikes and the costly measures on transportation, home heating, power generation and lifestyles that scientists say are needed to lower emissions and to shift economies away from dependency on fossil fuels, they risk prompting a backlash, largely from middle-class and lower-income workers, as well as pensioners who can ill afford to bear the expense.

The energy crisis buffeting the continent has placed Johnson and other European leaders in the difficult position of decrying fossil fuels while urgently prioritizing affordable access to them to avoid a political backlash by voters and businesses furious at the spiking costs of heating homes and running factories.

The banning of trans women from women's chess, of all sports, exemplifies the insanity of the current transphobic backlash.

Hong Kong is the world's shark fin capital, where about half of all fins are traded. But a backlash from environmentalists and consumer groups is pressuring restaurants to stop serving dishes containing shark fin.

The revitalisation project faced backlash for fear that it could displace low-income families in the city.

His speech provoked a backlash from European leaders, writers and academics.