(n.) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a danger of a public backlash if this is not done."
(2) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.
(3) President Hollande did announce new measures to stimulate growth this week but refused to go as far as a leading French industrialist, Louis Gallois, had wanted -- seemingly fearing a public backlash.
(4) The advert provoked a backlash from pro-EU campaigners and MPs, as well as claims of Islamophobia from Twitter users, some of whom said they were planning to report the party to Ofcom.
(5) The Berkut assault generated a large public backlash.
(6) This posture of racially tinged complacency underlies most of the frequent backlashes endured by western feminists.
(7) Ken Livingstone has delivered a rare public display of contrition, following a backlash over leaked remarks made by him in a private meeting which were interpreted as saying that Jewish voters would not vote for him because they were rich.
(8) Slowing growth, financial fragility, governments teetering on the brink of insolvency and default, and clear signs of a public backlash against the excesses of the rich and powerful: all have created a sombre backdrop to the invitation-only affair.
(9) But Klein – who over the years has endured pro-corporate backlash of her two earlier books and a ferocious assault for criticising Israel’s conduct against the Palestinians, says she is ready for it.
(10) Controversial BBC 6 Music DJ George Lamb, who provoked a listener backlash among some sections of the station's audience, was last night crowned the Sony Radio Academy Awards inaugural "rising star".
(11) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.
(12) The backlash over plans to reconfigure hospitals and primary care in Greater Manchester is a warning of what can go wrong if consultations are mishandled.
(13) And scared that there would be a very public backlash; that I'd be punished."
(14) Veterans of the backlash against the deep cuts to tax credits George Osborne was forced to withdraw last year are gearing up to put pressure on his successor, Philip Hammond, in the run-up to November’s autumn statement.
(15) Republicans were supposed to learn from Mitt Romney but I don’t think they did.” Allegations of rigging were widespread, even though a vote has not yet been cast, but few were willing to predict what kind of backlash there would be.
(16) The information on the website was amended to clarify that the new indexation arrangements will apply to all people with a Help debt.” The federal government has faced a heavy backlash over the proposed education reforms, with large student protests and university leaders expressing concern about the level of debt students will face.
(17) Same sex marriage remained a distant objective in Georgia, he said, and conservatives across the US would continue their legislative backlash under cover of protecting religious freedom.
(18) We wouldn’t want to do something like that because we were afraid about the kind of opposition we would run into.” But when the plan came together, he said, “we were really happy to have it.” But after the plan to broadcast the Adhan was announced publicly last Tuesday, there was an almost immediate backlash.
(19) If the conflict was prolonged, the Turkish prime minister warned of a backlash against countries now carrying out air strikes.
(20) Anybody who reached US soil and was not allowed to enter because of the executive order, none of them can be removed from the US while the judge determines the ultimate legality of the order.” Backlash against Trump migration order grows as Obama issues warning Read more In New York, Judge Ann Donnelly also ordered the government to provide a list of names of people affected by the order.
Repercussion
Definition:
(n.) The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
(n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
(n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
(n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
Example Sentences:
(1) In spite of the limitations arising from the complex geometry of the right ventricule, echocardiography may be the most important non-invasive technique in the evaluation of the structural and functional repercussion of hypertension on the right ventricle.
(2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
(3) Because of the central regulatory and metabolic importance of the liver, primary genito-endocrine disorders may also have hepatic repercussions.
(4) Different repercussion of drug therapy on rhythmic profile of patients with CHF.
(5) It has been found that the UV radiation-induced extreme state of the cells in a radiant culture produces distantly in an intact detector culture, which has only an optic contact with it, the cytopathic effect (CPE) as a repercussion of a specificity of morphological manifestations imprinted in the affected culture.
(6) Keane, now assistant manager at Aston Villa and with the Republic of Ireland, is heavily critical of Ferguson for pursuing the legal case and says he went to see the United manager to tell him he was taking on the wrong men and that it would have serious repercussions for the club.
(7) The urodynamic repercussions of prostatic diseases can also be evaluated by ultrasound.
(8) The general late sequelae and the functional and aesthetic repercussions of circatrization were scrutinized and compared with the method of treatment and the postoperative course.
(9) She said: "The targets do not look that ambitious, while the failure of the banks to meet their previous targets without any obvious repercussions means they have little incentive to meet these new ones."
(10) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
(11) The data reveal that, within all sibling network categories, daughters were more likely than sons to be providing care to an impaired parent; however, the repercussions of being a caregiver were not similarly uniform.
(12) The very terms used to describe the consequences of disease have normative implications which have important repercussions on the elaboration of policies with respect to the identification and treatment of these consequences.
(13) There were very few and slight adverse effects secondary to antiemetic drugs: Sedation happened in 25% of chemotherapic cycles and hypotension without clinical repercussion in 15%.
(14) With Planned Parenthood poised to take center stage in the spending bill fight, women’s groups have warned that threatening to defund the organization is a “losing strategy” that will have repercussions come election day.
(15) In other words, Mr Johnson is making a fool of himself and of Britain over issues that will have the deepest national repercussions.
(16) The mechanisms of infertility in varicoceles are still ill-defined; their repercussions are variable and unrelated to the degree of venous dilatations (a good number of such patients have no fertility problems).
(17) All working-aged patients in Piedmont receiving dialysis treatment were asked to fill in a questionnaire which aimed to highlight socio-working adjustment by assessing not only the optimal nature of dialytic treatment but also its repercussions in psycho-affective, socio-economic and cultural terms.
(18) In this field trial, the repercussions of 2 administration forms of oxfendazole, namely a single administration of a front-loaded device (group 1; n = 18) and a repeated administration of a 90.6 per cent oral suspension (group 2; n = 18), were compared in first season-grazing double-muscled fattening bulls.
(19) The results were viewed with regard to the importance of the complications, the chance of decanulation, the carrying time of the canula, adaptation to effort, functional respiratory tests, the value of language, intellectual and psychic repercussions, and repercussions on the social life.
(20) Because of its physical, psychological, interpersonal and financial repercussions, post-stroke depression is a sensitive issue facing patients, clinicians and society as a whole.