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Ireland's hair-trigger charges of intolerance have backfired, convincing the media that NOW is intolerant.
Furthermore, the GOP's resignation-by-example argument has backfired.
Again, the offer benefits Gore because his earlier spending spree has backfired on him.
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.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when confronted on Face the Nation with the charge that the bombing had backfired.