Sentence examples for backfired to from inspiring English sources

It also backfired, to the point that this anxious young artist stopped making art.

But it may have backfired to the extent that he didn't give voters a good enough reason to fire their incumbent senator.

The committee said that attempts to cut costs by not employing external experts had backfired to the tune of tens of millions of pounds.

Witness how China's heavy-handed threats, aimed at intimidating Taiwan's voters, backfired to the point that the Taiwanese elected the candidate who until recently had talked of asserting independence.

It was only later that day, when the family learned more details about the deaths of the Central Intelligence Agency operatives, that the bomber's family became certain that Mr. Balawi, a doctor, was not, as they thought, tending to sick and injured Palestinians in Gaza but was at the center of a complex espionage operation that backfired to deadly effect.

Instead, his opening gambit –to cut the pilots' allowances by half –may have backfired to some extent.

Even if you lie, it will backfire to you.

But that strategy may have backfired, according to a soon-to-be-published study in AMBIO.

This strategy backfired due to mass protests in January 2015.

It backfired, failing to rouse the masses while dividing the pro-democracy political parties.

It backfired, according to the Austin American-Statesman.