If we look at this from a logical point of view, the more Khamenei takes on the opposition, the more it could backfire.
But Lyle K. Rawlings, president of Advanced Solar Products, in Hopewell, N.J., and vice president of the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group, said those attempts to make the solar market more competitive could backfire, actually hindering competition by squeezing out smaller companies.
A similar move in the central government could help avoid the kind of open bickering between GAPP and the Ministry of Culture that erupted in 2009 over which was responsible for supervision of online games.Some worry that creating bigger ministries with more responsibilities could backfire.
But a registration of all funds alone, without much more vigorous policing, could backfire if naïve investors perceive it as a seal of approval.
Even leaders in some of the afflicted countries say that fiscal stimulus through more government spending could backfire, by taking off the pressure on political leaders to make necessary changes.
And third is that Republicans going nuclear could backfire more than Reid's did, given the stakes of a Supreme Court nomination and given that Republicans decried Reid's resorting to the nuclear option.
Facebook's push to gain access to users' banking data and other sensitive financial information could help make online banking more efficient — or it could backfire among those skeptical that the world's biggest social network can reliably safeguard personal data.
Richard Atwood, New York director of the International Crisis Group, said in an interview that he was worried that growing civilian casualties, as well as the Trump administration's decision to become more bellicose with Iran, could backfire and weaken the fight against the Islamic State.
House Republicans closed ranks today and pushed closer toward releasing a videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony about his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky, despite Democratic objections and private warnings from some lawmakers in their own party that the release of more sexually explicit material could backfire politically.
More worrisome, however, is the possibility that the Pentagon's attempts to get Europe to bear more of NATO's costs could backfire, said Heather A. Conley, director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
