Sentence examples for may backfire and from inspiring English sources

On the contrary, I fear it may backfire and harm the South.

But these proposed changes and others like them may backfire and only reveal how broken the system is, experts said.

Some family therapists suggest that keeping up appearances to protect children may backfire and that youngsters are better off with a clear-cut divorce.

A clause in the Iraq resolution that lets United Nations inspectors take Iraqi scientists and their families out of the country for interviews may backfire and make access to the scientists more difficult, a senior United Nations official said today.

You can explain that her potluck plan may backfire, and that invited guests may be so annoyed by her demands to cater her wedding and purchase a gift that the regrets may outnumber the acceptances.

Empowering American-favored rebel forces to confront the influence of the hard-line Islamist groups that are also fighting against Mr. Assad may backfire and intensify rivalries, causing the fault lines of the civil war to break down even further and turn the increasingly dominant hard-line Islamists against Western-backed rebels.

But formally citing Beijing as a currency manipulator may backfire, economic and foreign-policy experts have said.

However, this tactic may backfire spectacularly, and guarantee that Democrats win back control of the chamber in November's elections.

"Confrontational approaches in general, though once the norm even in many behavioral treatment settings, have not been found effective and may backfire by heightening resistance and diminishing self-esteem on the part of the targeted individual," the report says.

But if the populist elements were to propel a candidate to the Conservative leadership, would we not be at risk of a government like Donald Trump's? Scrapping the electoral reform and ignoring the importance of the issue may backfire for Justin Trudeau and hurt all progressive-minded people, giving rise to greater division in Canada and eventually scapegoating and violence.

What I object to is the use of counter-extremism as a shield for policy-making that has ulterior motives, and may backfire entirely.