Backlash used in a sentence

Backlash in a sentence as a noun

They don't see the actual spying as the cause of all the backlash - it's all Snowden's fault for telling the world.

Not only that, but he was fairly abrasive in the way he chose to respond to backlash.

It isn't even the beginning of some horrible backlash either.

It generated a pretty big backlash until I went to the trouble of explaining all of it.

The policor backlash to the game's realism and grittiness - and the ****-aspect - was huge.

Amazon pulled HarperCollins books from their site briefly, hoping a groundswell of consumer backlash would force HC and Apple to revise their contract.

They knew this acquisition would anger members of the community, and they timed this hire/announcement so as to quiet the predicted backlash.

Backlash in a sentence as a verb

[2] : This got changed shortly after considerable backlash.

It's always relatively subtle; they strive to only do what they can get away with...but it's always pushing the line, and is never based on trying to do what's right, merely avoiding backlash.

The public's tepid reaction has brought our nightmare scenario to life - we taught secretive government agencies that they can now do anything they want without fear of public backlash.

The university declined, knowing that the requisite environmental impact study for relicensing would bring withering community backlash.

The new iMacs' chipset and GPU are probably already more expensive than the previous generation's and Apple's almost always unwilling to bump the total cost of the machine or the cost of any BTO parts because they're guaranteed to get more backlash over those moves.

I don't know if someone in the US Justice Department had beef with Swartz they wanted to settle, or if they just wanted to make an example of someone, but one thing is certain and that's that until these prosecutors face actual backlash to their jobs and reputation when they go so far overboard, nothing whatsoever will change.