That provoked an anti-Musharraf backlash, and increased pressure on the Supreme Court to rule against the president.

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But with anti-testing backlash becoming more organized in the past year, since the 10th anniversary of the federal No Child Left Behind Act mandated testing, administrators have found themselves fielding more questions.

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It will also be important to see whether any kind of anti-immigrant backlash sets in, similar to what Democrats saw against civil rights in 1966 following the race riots in Watts and other cities.

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The anti-TARP backlash and populism will be far greater in Germany than in the U.K. and U.S. The U.S. and U.K. backed off from a FTT when push came to shove, but Germany may not.

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The result has been an anti-immigrant backlash.

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At the same time the anti-globalisation and green movements have stirred a consumer backlash against a surfeit of choice.

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