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Example sentences for: backlash

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Where Do We Go From Here was published in 1967, and in the intervening four years, King's optimism had given way to foreboding prompted by the emergence of a white backlash and the realization that combating the economic plight of black America would prove far more difficult than eliminating segregation.
The backlash against the Ken Burns documentary machine kicks into high gear.
This year's lines are noted for representing a backlash against feminism--"fashion's new womanliness," Time 's Ginia Bellafante calls it--with a return to pinks, pleats, and furs.
So far, in the name of equality, we are willing to tolerate rather intrusive regulation of dating practices in corporate or university settings, but one can sense a coming backlash favoring the principle that students old enough to vote should be old enough to make a responsible decision about their sexual lives.
Others foresee a bloody conflict with pro-Indonesia soldiers and militia members who are part of a nationalist backlash against intervention.