Word: backlasher
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...Muslim “occasionally known to pray.” The eagerness with which everyone is urgently underscoring the innocence and decency of most Muslims seems to indicate an underlying tension: some part of the population must need to be administered this information. The politicians fear a backlash...
...rewarding its shareholders in the process. The Unocal bid was its coming-out party, but at times, for Fu Chengyu & Co., it's been anything but fun. It has, so far, shown top management to be not completely fluent in Western-style corporate governance, or aware of the political backlash its acquisition attempt might spur across the Pacific...
...backlash came quickly. Nationalists, who still dominate local media and politics, launched a vicious campaign against Natasa Kandic, the Serbian human rights activist who had uncovered the tape and given it to the Hague tribunal. Kandic, named as one of Time's Heroes in 2003 for her work exposing war crimes, has been branded a traitor and the leader of a conspiracy to demonize her own country - a group of legislators even called for a national referendum to stop her from working in Serbia, while others wanted her locked up in a mental hospital. A scheduled TV appearance in Kikinda...
...think he received more backlash than he deserved, and I’m speaking as a Women’s Studies concentrator,” she says...
FACING THE BACKLASH...