Sentence examples for plans that backfired from inspiring English sources
Mr. Petersson was ousted in April after he led an expansion into stock-linked savings plans that backfired when markets plunged.
Or was it the result of a plan that backfired — a plan hatched by a handful of disgruntled workers who, as Ron McMahan, a board member, put it, tried to "take over" control of the institution?
But the Hack-a-Shaq plan was just another thing that backfired on the Trail Blazers.
To manufacture their lines, they had used their industry connections to find small factories in China that could produce the toys quickly and cheaply, a plan that backfired when one of the factories closed before production had finished.
Sometimes that backfired.
So, that backfired quickly.
Fining patrons of your business for posting bad reviews online is the official "Ace In The Hole" of plans that will surely backfire.
In other words, Wineapple gives us history as it feels in real time: full of plans that backfire, schemes foiled by chance, outliers who suddenly change everything and happy endings that turn out to be not too happy after all.
That plan backfired in spectacular fashion, with voters overwhelmingly supporting a name that failed to capture the grandeur that officials were probably looking for: Boaty McBoatface.
