Sentences with phrase «in a backlash against»

The same imprecision has long made it difficult to assess the health of American civil society, as was evident in the backlash against Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone.

Tenney said she agreed, and expressed her fear that the mass shooting will result in a backlash against legal gun owners.

Perry started out in the 1980s before making his name as a neo-artisan in the backlash against Damien Hirst - style conceptual art.

Abstract expressionism, a painting style powered by dramatization of the self, was still the rage in New York, and Johns, temperamentally out of sympathy with it, soon found himself a leader in the backlash against it.

Pasternak cited Nigerian - American arts leader Okwui Enwezor as a scholar who is disappointed in the backlash against Windmuller - Luna, his former student.

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The backlash against the proposed law in Arizona was severe, and mirrors what is happening in Indiana.

Acton left WhatsApp late last year and joined in the growing backlash against Facebook, endorsing a campaign that encouraged users to delete their profiles from the social network.

Canada has yet to experience such a backlash, but the recent furor over temporary foreign workers and simmering resentment in some quarters against immigrants could sour the mood towards foreign students.

As Fortune's David Z. Morris puts it, the report is «one of the most concrete indications yet that this year's stirring backlash against sexual harassment could have far - reaching impacts in the workplace.»

Hawley's inquiry comes amid withering public and political backlash against Facebook for its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to access information about its users and to possibly influence the 2016 presidential election campaign.

This year's F8 comes amid backlash against Facebook over user privacy and election meddling, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from up to 87 million users was inappropriately obtained by a third party.

Glen Macdonald, president of the Wealth & Giving Forum, said there could even be a backlash against the bucket challenge because the serious message of a disease is getting lost in all the stunts and videos.

Donald Carty, former AMR Corp. and American Airlines Chairman & CEO, weighs in on the backlash against United after the forced removal of a passenger on an overbooked flight.

He argued that it would lead to a long period of uncertainty in which «Europe would be increasingly inward - looking, consumed with divisive debates about its future against the backdrop of an anti-immigration and anti-free trade backlash.»

Though the attackers framed their actions as a defense of journalistic objectivity, most observers found the real motive to be a backlash against cultural diversification and gender sensitivity in video games.

A global sell - off in stocks came back around to North America in morning trading after the president doubled down against growing backlash, saying «trade wars are good.»

The Republican wave in 2010 was fueled by voter backlash against Obama's policies, headlined by the health care law that quickly became known as «Obamacare.»

VANCOUVER — Shareholders of Lululemon Athletica Inc. (Nasdaq: LULU) have re-elected two directors that the company's founder and largest shareholder Chip Wilson voted against in an apparent boardroom backlash, the latest controversy to come to light at the struggling yoga wear retailer.

In truth, the brand faces a double - whammy backlash because American shoppers, it seems, are also rebelling against frozen food.

Arianna Huffington talks about how she's shaking things up at Uber, we meet the woman tasked with building Apple's China business — and you share your take on reporting around the backlash against women in tech.

Yesterday, Kristen asked what you thought about the New York Times story on the backlash against gender equality in Silicon Valley — and specifically for your thoughts on how to tackle the discussion of these kinds of false and biased beliefs without lending them credibility.

The move came amidst a public backlash in Denmark against Islam in the wake of Islamist violence a decade ago over Danish newspaper cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammad, a series of deadly militant attacks in Europe including one in Denmark, and a large influx of mainly Muslim migrants in 2015.

But backlashes against Muslims who have no part in the Islamic State's ideologies or actions make the situation much worse.

Labatt Breweries quickly learned a brutal lesson in social media marketing and PR after a legal threat against the Montreal Gazette, over the paper's use of a photo depicting accused killer Luka Magnotta holding a bottle of Blue, transformed into a Twitter backlash mocking the beer company.

But Facebook users, in the middle of what seems to be a moment of broader cultural backlash against social media and technology, are also clearly grappling with the ramifications of their use of the platform.

When it comes to recent activity at Google, the duo might be responsible for causing an in - house backlash against cryptocurrency advertising.

We have already witnessed backlashes in some developing countries against China's steel exports.

But nationalism against the backdrop of massive overcapacity, a depreciated Chinese currency, and widespread frustrations about environmental degradations (for example, heavy smog in a number of cities)-- to mention just the more salient issues — has the potential to lead to backlash against Chinese leaders.

Public companies for the first time this year must disclose how much more they pay their chief executive than their median employee, a rule born in the wake of the financial crisis and amid a social backlash against rising income inequality.

BM: Lately there has been some backlash in the community against the Bitcoin Foundation, with the logic being that if we are supporting a decentralized currency, why have a centralized organization try to run the community?

Going further, it will be blamed on capitalism, and the backlash against conservative economic policies will be so severe that 2020 or 2024 could mark the beginning of full - blown socialism in America.

The Anti-Defamation League is pushing back against social media backlash in response to Cristiano Ronaldo's appearance in an Israeli cable TV commercial.

For Russia, the backlash against billionaires started back in 2014 when the U.S. imposed sanctions on it for annexing Crimea from the Ukraine.

But its business model, which has also relied on aggressive price hikes for acquired drugs, has come under growing scrutiny because of political backlash against high drug prices, dragging Valeant shares down from record highs scaled in August.

Mainstream muslims have (sadly as a result of the 9/11 backlash) started in earnest to try and be heard and fight against these extremists.

But if anything, her comments anticipate not the distant future but the shape of the Nixon administration and the national backlash against civil rights legislation and the sexual revolution — events close at hand in 1970.

@Bill I think that much of the «skewed hyper seexualization of the modern culture» is a backlash against the skewed, hyper demonization of s.ex by religious groups for hundreds of years, most especially by puritan groups in America.

In the face of a growing religious right - wing backlash against civil rights movements, reactionary Christians and radical feminists alike have advocated a choice: either accept Christian teaching or become liberated and leave the bondage of patriarchal religion behind.

Then, when the later bill failed in the House of Representatives and the conservative backlash became too severe, Rubio said he would have voted against the reform bill if he had to do it over again.

In the ensuing international backlash against the bill, Lively claimed that he did not support the death penalty for hom.ose.xuality but that if the «offending sections» were modified, the proposed law criminalizing hom.ose.xuality «would be an encouraging step in the right direction.&raquIn the ensuing international backlash against the bill, Lively claimed that he did not support the death penalty for hom.ose.xuality but that if the «offending sections» were modified, the proposed law criminalizing hom.ose.xuality «would be an encouraging step in the right direction.&raquin the right direction.»

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Egypt's public prosecutor announced the charges Tuesday, the latest development in the deadly backlash against the low - budget, amateurish 14 - minute movie trailer produced privately in the United States and posted on YouTube.

Perennial alarums are raised about the dangers of a popular «backlash» against the poor, and against poor blacks in particular.

As a backlash against cheap, mass - produced products, many young consumers are embracing this resurgence in craftsmanship.

When Faludi touches on the rise in female poverty (directly correlated with the rise in female - headed households» there's no doubt about this relationship), the rise in violence against women, the rise of eating disorders, she blames it all on The Backlash.

Though I see the need to confront pornography as a Christian, I fear touching off a backlash against sexuality and against women in the churches.

Already proving to be one of the most divisive blockbusters in years, hardcore fans» backlash against The Last Jedi didn't slow it down at the box office, with the new Star Wars movie taking in an estimated $ 220 million.

Recounting our nation's recurrent history of white militarized backlash after periods of ethnic progress, Dr. Carol Anderson, Associate Professor of African American History at Emory University, surmised in a recent Washington Post commentary that Ferguson was not about black rage against cops, but rather about white rage against progress.

Mr Ottaway said in the US, the initial backlash against craft beer brands which had sold out to large conglomerates often resulted in a short - term sales dip in their local area, but it was soon overtaken by faster growth overall as the enhanced distribution channels and bigger marketing clout kicked in.

There had been a major backlash against the Tamar Ridge brand in the late 2000s when it was still owned by timber company Gunns, which was in the spotlight over environmental issues in Tasmania related to a proposed pulp mill.