The early returns suggested, on the contrary, that baiting the media may have backfired for the GOP.
This proved to work for developers at Facebook, reducing the amount of work they had to do across mobile apps, but has backfired for users, who have seen the app stretched to its limits as more functionality has been added over time.
In California, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina both spent a fortune of their own on their respective races, and won their primaries (Governor and Senator, respectively); traditionally that has backfired for politicians, but will such tactics hurt them in the November election?
The rhetoric advocating the empowerment of women during childbirth through exercising their right to informed choice has backfired for many women who have found themselves labelled by the health professionals, on whom they rely, as being 'difficult' or 'untrusting' [ 18].
If being a manipulative schemer has backfired for Cersei, it's nothing compared to how being a mensch has backfired for Jon Snow.
But the new regulation intended to combat long hours in Seoul's steel and glass office towers has backfired for many doing manual or irregular labour, with people flocking to poorly regulated industries and facing pay cuts.
Whether one or all of these approaches are attempted, it's clear that Riyadh's attempt to move on ― boosted by influential pro-Saudi voices ― has backfired for now.
LaPierre called such a move "the one thing that would keep people safe," but one that may have backfired for a charter school that took his advice to heart.
But an attempt by the companies to settle the dispute has backfired, opening the way for Apotex to enter the market.
If anything, Americans officials said, the recent French and German appeal for American patience has backfired -- emboldening the hawks in the administration and even spurring Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to tell aides that he would accept military action against Iraq without approval from the Security Council.
