Sentence examples for it clearly backfired from inspiring English sources

Bin Talal: And it clearly backfired.

Granted, the Democrats are as much to blame for the sequester as their opponents, and the political calculation behind it has clearly backfired since our Congress is so dysfunctional that it cannot reach a deal even when confronted with a crisis.

It's clearly backfired.

Yet Serbia's efforts to promote Adrian's story had clearly backfired: such tactics only made it easier for the lawyers representing K.L.A. leaders to protest that their clients were victims of slander.

Knowles declines to discuss the matter, but university and Smithsonian sources say that the offer of a chair was an attempt to placate Geller that clearly backfired.

The industry's strategy of contesting the reporting rule in court has clearly backfired.

Such sacrifices can clearly backfire.

And our culture of hyperactivity and hyper-consumption is clearly backfiring.

Priscilla Gonzalez of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), an advocacy group that spearheaded the stop-and-frisk reform campaign, told HuffPost in a statement, "We knew all along that fear-mongering to justify stop-and-frisk abuses and other discriminatory policing was a tactic that would backfire, and it clearly did".

… It wasn't Mario, it was me and it backfired".

But it roundly backfired.