The bank avoided criminal charges but top managers were ousted amid a political backlash.
That could spur a political backlash, and perhaps legal challenges, in the countries supplying the funds.
He adds that he now advises tribes to avoid shelter deals because of a possible political backlash.
Is there some sort of fear of political backlash during an election year?
The losers from globalisation triggered a political backlash against it, even before the first world war sealed its fate.
Repealing the tariff, while helpful to automakers, could produce a political backlash for Bush in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia steel country.
In 1981 and 1982, Ronald Reagan was forced to back down from proposed cuts to Social Security after encountering a political backlash.
The political backlash it will bring will be large across the spectrum.
Ironically, it may ultimately provoke a political backlash that results in the imposition of rules and regulations that are even more inefficient than class actions.
As hopes that credit cards would avoid the pain felt in mortgages have dwindled, so has any chance of the industry avoiding a political backlash.
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Samuelson is right to remind us of the turnaround Reagan orchestrated (13 percent to 4 percent inflation in four years) and the political backlash he survived.
Hence the growing political backlash against the Obama Administration's attempt to nationalize health care and extend Washington's tentacles deeper into more areas of our economic lives.
That could spark a political backlash as consumers see that a kilowatt at 6 p.m. costs five or ten times as much as one at 4 a.m.
Now, Roubini told CNN, the European Union faces a "political backlash" with austerity fatigue from the likes of Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Greece, and bailout fatigue from Germany.
"In the short term there will be price volatility and political backlash, but the long term trend is fairly clear: undertaking reductions now is significantly cheaper than inaction, " says Karmali.
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With the use of privatized security services, a robust military capability can still be maintained by the U.N. peacekeeping force without the attendant political backlash caused by casualties to U.S. forces.
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And if, as Mr Duisenberg expects, the new currency helps to promote structural reforms, the risk of a political backlash against those unaccountable high priests in Frankfurt is all too clear.
The cables also showed U.S. officials exploring ways to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani nuclear site in a way that wouldn't spur a political backlash against Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari.
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Mindful of the political backlash that might result if Cnooc employees had the run of Chesapeake's facilities, the two executives agreed that the Chinese deals wouldn't allow for any secondment, Mr. McClendon says.
"It is highly unlikely that the current policy will be reversed with the risk of a political backlash from families whose children" would no longer qualify this year, the statistician wrote in an email reviewed by the Journal.
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Even in the U.K, where there is considerable political backlash in bonus awards, it has been easier to strip executives of their knighthood, as was the case with former RBS chief executive Fred Goodwin, rather than clawback bonuses.
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The Guardian says the BBC is facing a growing political backlash to its proposed cuts to local radio after MPs lined up at a Westminster debate to criticise the changes as unfair, unjustified and a "travesty" for listeners.
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President Ronald Reagan, the iconic conservative, quickly backed off proposals like an initiative to reduce certain Social Security benefits when they stimulated a strong political backlash, and he left many other kinds of domestic spending, like Medicare or agricultural subsidies, intact.
Officials of the U.S. Department of Education, as well as presidents Bush and Clinton, have applauded the emergence of standards at the state level and in the various subject areas, but they understand that any suggestion that these were being imposed by Washington would unleash a political backlash.
They contend with the threats of environmental backlash and dicey political situations in war-torn hellholes.
The consequence of blinking could mean political consequences, mainly a backlash from the base.
The conservatism of the Lochner era at the Supreme Court, and in the broader political world, generated a backlash.
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