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Example sentences for: flak

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The institute took flak in Congress for the S&M images in its Robert Mapplethorpe show, and for displaying Andres Serrano's crucifix suspended in urine.
More flak on the SAT.
It's a measure of the self-confidence of the American Catholic hierarchy that the flak in the Clinton flap came from the other direction.
Under the headline "A very Irish ambassador," the newspaper said that, despite her hotline to the White House and her friendship with the leaders of Sinn Fein, she had not been central to the launching of the peace process in Northern Ireland but had been used "to take the flak," while Clinton, Anthony Lake, Nancy Soderberg, and Ulster Social Democrat leader John Hume "worked away quietly" behind the scenes.
According to the Post , Paxson's lobbyist on the matter, Lanny Davis (formerly a legal flak catcher for the Clinton White House), got Democratic Reps.