Examples of backfire

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A final experiment by the police at labour organization backfired disastrously.
The ploy, of course, backfires because although such a strategy may build up wealth it does so at the expense of a man's honour.
Moves to counter potential disloyalty among the troops backfired, giving rise to discontent even where none had previously existed.
Instead, the government's plan backfired to an extent.
If a strike by residents were prolonged or if it backfired and resulted in their dismissal, the strike might interfere with their board certification.
The tactic of moving outside the bureaucracy backfired.
In fact, as part of a strategic retreat that was resented by a large segment of its constituency, it may actually have backfired.
Attempts by the military to intimidate the peasantry into submission at times backfired.
Conservative attempts to find new radical impetus seemed to have backfired.
The case backfired when the liberal mayor was accused of gross mismanagement.
Attempts to appeal to smallholders and the urban middle class, however, backfired.
In the event, the plan backfired.
The success of this policy, however, backfired.
Timed to occur just when you are selling a car, a backfire can be memorable!
In this case that context is defined by the backfire of the mesmeric procedures whose undesired results propel the second dramatic trajectory.
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