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According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch he fled to Lampsacus due to a backlash against his pupil Pericles.
Meanwhile, many armies are experiencing a backlash against carbines and lighter rifles in general, and are equipping selected soldiers, usually called Designated Marksmen, or DM, with higher power rifles.
On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.
DC also published crime and horror titles, but relatively tame ones, and thus avoided the mid-1950s backlash against such comics.
When industry groups lobbied to weaken regulation and a backlash against environmental regulations, the so called wise use movement gained importance and influence.
In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.
This misreporting of the roots of the massacre caused a widespread public backlash against the North American goth scene.
He concluded that a severe backlash against suspected Catholics would have followed, and that without foreign assistance a successful rebellion would have been unlikely ; despite differing religious convictions, most Englishmen were loyal to the institution of the monarchy.
They assert that by defining crimes as being committed by one group against another, rather than as being committed by individuals against their society, the labeling of crimes as “ hate crimes ” causes groups to feel persecuted by one another, and that this impression of persecution can incite a backlash and thus lead to an actual increase in crime.
In the aftermath of Suharto's rise, hundreds of thousands of people were killed or imprisoned by the military and religious groups in a backlash against alleged communist supporters.
Instead of prompting a backlash against the movement from which the attackers originated, however, Saudi Arabia, already very conservative, responded by shoring up its fundamentalist credentials with even more Islamic restrictions.
In that incident, unknown reformers had posted placards in various cities attacking the Catholic mass, which provoked a violent backlash against Protestants.
A pagan backlash against Christianity followed Æthelberht's death in 616, forcing Justus and Mellitus to flee to Gaul.
As in many former Soviet republics, after Kyrgyzstan regained independence in August 1991 many individuals, organizations, and political parties sought to reestablish ( and, to a certain extent, to create from scratch ) a Kyrgyz national cultural identity ; often one that included a backlash against Russians.
Lastly, the undue focus on the Marxist thought in the former Eastern Bloc, often forbidding social science arguments from outside the Marxist perspective, led to a backlash against Marxism after the revolutions of 1989.
However, he backed down with his stance against the unions following a backlash by the militant miners ' union, which saw many of his own MPs turn against him.
For example, the intense backlash against country band the Dixie Chicks, for remarks critical of President George W. Bush onstage in London in 2003, was described by newspaper columnist Don Williams as the price for freely speaking political views disapproved by supporters of the Iraq War.
* Faludi's 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women.
What the mainstream rock press perceived as the excess of Tales From Topographic Oceans ( 1973 ) marked the start of the backlash against Prog music.
The backlash against any " prog " by the mainstream rock press was in full force.
The market was drinking more red wine, and there was a backlash against heavy, oaky, New World Chardonnays in favor of lighter wines such as Pinot Grigio.
This in turn resulted in a backlash against the new secular and republican rule, as many people considered a vigorously nationalistic approach necessary to rejuvenate France's fading power.

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The Civil Rights Movement was gathering momentum, and in 1964 urban riots began within black neighborhoods in New York City and Los Angeles ; by 1968 hundreds of cities had major riots that caused a severe conservative political backlash.
The province of Ontario began deregulation of electricity supply in 2002, but pulled back temporarily due to voter and consumer backlash at the resulting price volatility.
The end of the Second Bank of the United States had produced a period of runaway inflation, but on May 10, 1837, in New York City, every bank began to accept payment only in specie ( gold and silver coinage ), forcing a dramatic, deflationary backlash.
Many observers point out that the War on Poverty's attention to Black America created the grounds for the backlash that began in the 1970s.
As U. S. relations with Iran began to deteriorate throughout the decade, Iranian students on campus began staging protests against the Shah, which protests met with some backlash in the community.
He had invested heavily in her before she began a reckless affair with the married Aly Khan, and it could have caused a backlash against her career and Columbia's success.
William Scroggs, the Lord Chief Justice of England, began to declare more people innocent, as he had done in the Wakeman trial, and a backlash took place.
The widespread support of action against communists and their associates began to abate somewhat after Senator Joseph McCarthy overreached himself in the Army-McCarthy Hearings, producing a backlash.
But a political backlash against gambling-related corruption began.
NME gave the record a positive review, but most of the press generally disliked the album as a backlash against shoegazing began.
American evangelist Gerald Burton Winrod and other conspiracy theorists within the fundamentalist Christian movement in the United States — which emerged in the 1910s as a backlash against the principles of Enlightenment secular humanism, modernism, and liberalism — became the main channel of dissemination of Illuminati conspiracy theories in the U. S. Right-wing populists, such as members of the John Birch Society, subsequently began speculating that some collegiate fraternities ( Skull and Bones ), gentlemen's clubs ( Bohemian Club ) and think tanks ( Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission ) of the American upper class are front organizations of the Illuminati, which they accuse of plotting to create a New World Order through a one-world government.
One English promoter that benefited from the backlash against the Crabtrees was Merseyside promoter Brian Dixon, who had started in the business during his youth, running the Jim Breaks fan club, now had several years experience running his own firm, All Star Wrestling, and began capitalizing on this disaffection taking many of Joint Promotions ' top champions.
Third-wave feminism began in the early 1990s, arising as a response to perceived failures of the second wave and to address the backlash against initiatives and movements created by the second wave.
Durkheim had made changes to school curricula across France, and after his death a backlash against his students began.
After public backlash, an experiment began October 11, 1992, in which some of the changes were reverted.
Pirate radio is also in large part the resulting backlash from Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) regulations restricting low-power broadcasting, although this is how nearly all college radio stations began.
However, after the initial coming out frenzy, the show's ratings declined and ABC began feeling the pain of an organized backlash from conservative groups regarding the " gay content " being exhibited.
A Dixieland revival began on the west coast in the late 1930s as a backlash to the Chicago style, which was close to swing.
A critical backlash began over the repetitive nature of his lyrics, his clean-cut image, and his perceived over-reliance on using hooks from other artists for the basis of his singles.
After the Ottoman Empire and Italy began to fight over the province of Libya in 1911, Naum like other Christians in the region felt a backlash from the Muslim community and in 1912, he fled to United States, where he began to write for the newspaper Intibah ܐܢܬܒܗ ( Cirutho ܥܝܪܘܬܐ, in English: Awakening ), published by Gabriel Boyaji from 1909-1915.
For a follow-up, Evelyn Thomas re-recorded three tracks from an aborted project by Levine's group Moonstone, " Love in the First Degree ", " Summer on the Beach " and " Sleaze " ( originally entitled " Out of the Ball Game ") but with the disco backlash in the US, the tracks were left unreleased, and Levine and Thomas ' careers stalled as the 1980s began.

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