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Sources say that Maître-Créche's unusually stiff sentence resulted from a legal ploy that backfired.
Ireland's hair-trigger charges of intolerance have backfired, convincing the media that NOW is intolerant.
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.
A last ditch defense effort to portray MaîtreCrèche as a peasant ignorant of France's tough laws on the use of such expressions backfired when the prosecution unveiled a book found in the defendant's office entitled 108 Franglaish Expressions That Can Get You Put in Jail If You Use Them In This Country.
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