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This change of position backfired dramatically as the European banking sector continued to spiral downwards, he said.
BWF's noble intention of making the game accessible to a bigger group of Olympians has in fact backfired dramatically.
Yet Mr. Hazare and his advisers have also proved adept at the necessities of modern politics: they have adroitly outmaneuvered the police and government officials who sought to defuse the anticorruption movement, after the decision to arrest him backfired dramatically.
The move, an extraordinary high-stakes gamble by a prime minister determined to achieve "greater consensus" for the severe austerity measures demanded in return for aid, backfired dramatically with EU leaders wondering whether Greece wanted to stay in the eurozone and global markets gyrating wildly on fears of the instability a no vote would bring.
Nikephoros' scheme had backfired dramatically: instead of peace, a new and formidable foe had appeared in the Balkans, and a large part of the Bulgarian nobility appeared to side with the Rus' prince.
It was a decision that would backfire dramatically.
Keep in mind that this strategy can backfire dramatically if all you manage to do is convince her that you're not interested in her.
A huge legal sale of ivory intended to cut elephant poaching instead catastrophically backfired by dramatically increasing elephant deaths, according to new research.
China is not putting pressure on Mr Tsang to revive the anti-subversion legislation that backfired so dramatically against Mr Tung, and Mr Tsang says he is not planning to do so.Public demand for more rapid progress toward full democracy for now appears muted.
Last election's famously airbrushed headshot of Cameron, which gave him the waxy look of an embalmed dictator, dramatically backfired, spawning a tidal wave of mocking memes.
This war on YouTube has been brewing for years, although it is not quite like the time Mensch's charges Metallica gunned for Napster – a move that dramatically backfired.
