Sentences with phrase «risk public backlash»

If they go after EPA too aggressively, they risk public backlash, similar to what followed when the Newt Gingrich - led Congress elected in 1994 pursued an ambitious conservative makeover of Washington that led eventually to a government shutdown.

To succeed, the industry will have to ensure that stringent safety regulations are implemented or risk public backlash on the world stage

And companies who regularly deny insurance coverage based on social - media data could risk public backlash.

Lane kept up that effort, saying that governments must put a greater emphasis on retraining and lifelong learning or risk a public backlash against the merits of freer trade.

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In caving quickly to the backlash, General Mills ignored the larger question facing them and every other CPG company: is the company's revenue - generation from traditional coupons worth the costs they bring to your organization in terms of social media, public relations and risk management?

Wells Fargo & Co.'s attempt to force aggrieved customers into closed - door arbitration over its fake - accounts scandal is drawing a legislative backlash in its home state of California and risks subjecting the bank to another round as a public punching bag.

Equally these last - minute changes, as with the route north of Birmingham, have also not been put forward for public consultation and therefore risk huge public and stakeholder backlash.

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.178 While these activities make up a small proportion of L214's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.179 Investigations make up a larger part of L214's work and have sometimes led to a slightly different type of backlash in which industry and government respond by attempting to pass laws that target advocates, such as ag - gag legislation in the United States.180 While L214 tries to maintain good relationships with media and the government, and France does not have ag - gag laws, they have sometimes been the target of lawsuits by industry because their footage is taken without permission.181 L214 has sometimes suffered negative consequences as a result of these lawsuits, such as fines or the requirement to take footage down from their website.182, 183

The idea of dominance in dogs has been so misunderstood by some trainers in popular media for so long that it has now become a dirty word, such that even when trainers and behavior experts use the word correctly, they risk a backlash from people that are — let's face it - exhausted from having to continually reeducate the public about what dominance really is and what it isn't, particularly when so much damage has been done because of the way the word has been used by some people in the dog training world.

Because smart public health activists have focused private - sector attention on the risk of consumer backlash against products that might harm children, and because cost - effective alternatives to BPA already exist.

«Any oil company or bank that supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge faces enormous reputational risk and public backlash.