11.   The proposal has also provoked a backlash.

12.   This focus on identity has provoked a backlash against girl bands by people more interested in music than politics.

13.   Vast housing projects around Paris and most other French cities have become outposts of Algerian culture, provoking a backlash of racial and religious prejudice and mistrust.

14.   Yet, popular culture experts avoided making predictions Friday on whether the Internet-posted report would provoke a backlash of disgust that could drive Clinton from office.

15.   But others have provoked a backlash, even though Britain generally shows greater tolerance for nudity and bad language than the United States.

16.   But, with anti-U.S. sentiment still rife among IOC members over the Salt Lake scandal, American political pressure against Beijing could provoke a backlash.

17.   Democrats could provoke a backlash by criticizing Nader too harshly, Long said.

18.   Foreign products often provoke a backlash in Japan, an insular country with an historical taste for homegrown products.

19.   Furthermore, they believe, Beijing would not want to risk provoking a backlash from Washington by flooding the United States with inexpensive goods.

20.   That crackdown is well under way, and provoking a backlash from those whose livelihood is threatened.