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Example sentences for: backfired

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Livingston's resignation has also backfired by diverting public attention from perjury back to sex.
Corollary: The "circuit breakers," which suspended trading, backfired.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when confronted on Face the Nation with the charge that the bombing had backfired.
The case against that idealism is that it didn't happen-that big government solutions failed or backfired, that the War on Poverty was lost, and that the racial equality that liberals promised in law remained frustrated by cultural and economic factors they had thought government could easily overcome.
The move backfired, unintentionally reminding viewers that the big difference between ADM and ABC is that ADM is just a couple of letters farther down the alphabet.