Sentence examples for and backfires from inspiring English sources

But there is a thrill in realizing that, somewhere beyond the fits and starts and backfires that make up our news cycle, there is a great engine that has begun to turn.

Meanwhile the unskilled driver was yanking the tiller 360 degrees hand-over-hand, pounding the chassis to find brake pressure with one foot and pumping up revs with the other, crashing into second and then first looking for a little anchorage from an engine with its tachometer punching redline and blasts and backfires exploding from its exhaust pipes.

The entire Republican election campaign effort built around denouncing Obamacare goes forward anyway, and backfires spectacularly as Democrats retake the House easily, putting Nancy Pelosi back in the speaker's chair.

This may not work all the time and backfires a lot.

Trying a step in this manual may also result in accidents and backfires.

Don't bring in friends that are two faced, because one minute they'll try to help you and when it all goes wrong and backfires, they'll run.

But lately the tandem has begun to hiccup and backfire.

"It was meant to damage me and backfired on Miller".

Meanwhile, repression proved unable to end resistance and backfired by imposing significant costs on the regimes.

Efforts to avoid or suppress thinking anxious thoughts are most likely to be unproductive and backfire.

The re-education that Starbucks had begun was both moving ahead and backfiring.