Sentences with phrase «in fear of backlash»

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It has already been blamed for the failure of the SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colo., which set off widespread fears about privacy and sparked a media backlash.

«After many years of taking down Tweets and Facebook posts after inadvertently offending someone in my network and having to censor myself constantly, I wanted to create a place where people could have frank conversations without fear of social backlash.

«In an unusual bullish move for the non-yielding safe haven asset after a rate hike, this can be entirely attributed to the aforementioned USD weakness, as Wilders» Dutch election defeat eases some fears of a populist European backlash.»

This position is one which few women feel safe to articulate in the public space for fear of a backlash, especially on social media.

Asia's third - largest economy is recovering, with factory output surging, but food prices are growing at the fastest pace in 11 years and the government fears a backlash from millions of rural poor who are its main voters.

If Wenger will not stand up to the board then we need a new manager, a manager who will rage if promises are broken, someone who will force the board into supporting the manager in fear of supporter backlash.

Many single dads fear the backlash from perhaps the courts, the mother or being accused of bringing a state of instability in to the child's life.

This fear of an NRA backlash might, at least in part, explain why Republican senators continue to vote against gun control legislation that's popular with their own conservative constituents.

The Welsh Lib Dem team have been furiously trying to convince voters that the local elections are not a good time to be influenced by events in Westminster, for fear of a backlash over Nick Clegg's support for Tory - led government policies.

The boycott is being actively discussed by lawmakers from Cuomo's own Democratic Party, who accuse the governor of deep - sixing what would have been their first pay raise in 16 years out of fear of a political backlash.

Fearing backlash, Jordan asserts Al - Aqsa custodianship — Israel captured Jerusalem's mostly Arab eastern sector from Jordan in the 1967 Six - Day War... entrusting him with the defence of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.

Technology also allows us to indulge in some of our darker impulses without fear of backlash.

The public lack of grief on the part of the Royals brought about a great backlash against them, and fearing additional public resentment, Queen Elizabeth II, at the behest of current Prime Minister Tony Blair, agreed to some compromises in order to preserve the institution of the Royal Family, including a public television address and walking among the people, acts which were exceedingly rare for the Queen of England.

actor, who was a victim of the 2014 phone hack in which her private nude photos were leaked to the internet, said she feared backlash for her choice.

Moreover, as Derrell Bradford recently wrote in The Seventy - Four, Janus could allow reform - minded Democratic politicians to support education policies that are in the best interests of children and families, without having to fear a well - funded backlash from the teachers unions.

The editor at Penguin Random House who asked to remain anonymous, citing fear of backlash from institutions in the literary world such as the Times and Amazon, termed this dilemma «the problem of continued consolidation,» referring to the increasingly common pattern of publishers relying on only a few big name books a year to achieve commercial success.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., in 1989, canceled a Mapplethorpe retrospective that was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, fearing political backlash because of the exhibition's frank depictions of homosexual behavior.

Is it fair to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the reason that the President and the EPA Administrator are so very reluctant to invoke the full regulatory authority of the EPA is because they both fear the consequences of sparking a widespread popular backlash against the lifestyle sacrifices which most certainly must be made in reducing America's GHG emissions 80 % by 2050?

In a climate of fear surrounding the inevitable backlash caused by corporate green washing, it is not surprising that the term «Green Marketing» is viewed with suspicion.

How any society tolerates disfavoured notions reflects where we are at in progressing forward, and by firing him, Google are acknowledging that women are just as capable as men, and staying true to their values... or did Google buckle under the pressure that Damore expressed arguably sexist views, so out of fear of public retaliation, they chose to fire him and avoid a negative backlash on their business?

Makes one wonder if that's why local real estate boards and AREA failed to promote this new way of doing business, were they in fear of further backlash from the public?