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Example sentences for: backfire

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The Post also said that Yeltsin's attempts to "subvert or cancel" elections could backfire, and added, "Even more ominous is the possibility that political infighting in Moscow could shift the real power to regional governors, many of whom are even less democratic and more self-serving than Yeltsin himself.
"The Nixon Analogy": Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.
But if the press buys the Democrats' simplistic representation of the ads, they will indeed backfire.
You might expect that plan to backfire by encouraging the candidates to spend more.
' But Clinton advisers said that they expected Mr. Lott's comments to backfire" ( New York Times ).