He also feared that Israel would be subjected to a fierce international backlash and the outrage of Christians worldwide if it forced its way into the Old City.

Following a fierce backlash Adobe decided to provide the software patch.

Recognizing that federalizing Alabama troops would generate even fiercer backlash and potentially greater violence, he needed to persuade Wallace to ask for the assistance.

However, he has complained that he was misrepresented by newspapers, and had suffered a fierce backlash.

Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium.

Indeed, the charges in the report - outlined in thousands of pages recounting massacres and disappearances - have prompted a limited but fierce backlash.

The government faces a fierce backlash this week over plans to force single mothers of secondary school age children into employment.

The subsequent cancellation of the debate by Durham Union Society President Anna Birley on safety grounds was met with fierce backlash.

At the same time, the neo-colonial nature of such an endeavor could produce a fierce backlash by Iraqis and others in the region.

"But there was a fierce backlash."