“We must push back against the pushback,” he said. “We cannot give way; we refuse to lose the ground we have won.”
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Pushback
Synonyms for "pushback"
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Sweden, as well as the UK, recently announced pushbacks on green targets and budgets, while there are negative noises from Germany on building insulation costs.
Source: wiktionary
More pushback from Hill on eavesdropping [title]
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Moreover, when Democrats, notably former House minority leader Richard Gephardt, finally put their heads up in the late spring of 2002 to ask questions about that Aug. 6, 2001, memo warning of the possibility of terrorist attacks, the Republican pushback was furious.
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