Sentence examples for backfired completely from inspiring English sources

One notorious attempt by the 10 10 campaign and director Richard Curtis at 'humorously' marginalising opposition towards environmentalism backfired completely.

She said: "I had previous experience back in Britain of reporting child abuse to the authorities which had backfired completely.

And Gala's efforts to push for a winner nearly backfired completely when, at the other end, Julian Draxler dribbled to the edge of their box unchecked before shooting inches wide of Muslera's right-hand post.

"That backfired completely -- the only thing that Mubarak could do under those circumstances was to hunker down.

In some cases, this behavior can even backfire completely and leave employee feeling demoralized.

A tactic that it had hoped might push Havas into paying too much for Tempus could not have backfired more completely.Mr de Pouzilhac was away from the office when WPP finally gave up and agreed to buy Tempus, and staff insisted they would not disturb him.

Tell that to the millions of Latino voters who were urged by the GOP "don't vote" -- a move that backfired so completely that Democrats across the West stopped the red tide at the Rockies, and California Republicans risk losing immigrant voters for generations.

Thus, while poorly designed incentives (e.g. those with short vesting periods, or paying according to quarterly earnings) can backfire, to completely scrap equity will throw the baby out with the bathwater.

This completely backfired.

Mr. Hancock said on Wednesday that the attacks had completely backfired and became the turning point of the election.

However, the properties of the film medium and nature of the spy film genre at times completely backfired against the substitution of anticommunism in film.