Sentence examples for seriously backfire from inspiring English sources

Aiming for "perfect" instead of "good enough" can seriously backfire.

However, senior figures in the SNP and Yes Scotland believe the strategy could seriously backfire.

Going down the preference share route could seriously backfire for the taxpayer.

With Palin's sharply falling popularity, however, it is possible – and probable - that her comments could seriously backfire.

But even if you can win a series of small victories that way, you only need to fall short once for the "madman strategy" to seriously backfire.

Of course, arrangements like this can seriously backfire if you're not careful.

This "first ballot strategy" may make sense politically, but it risks seriously backfiring in the second round.

But one possibility that no one seems to be entertaining is that the current battle could end up seriously backfiring on Republicans.

Peter Rona, a leading economist, said the doomsday talk had seriously backfired by spooking investors already jittery over debt problems in the euro zone, potentially depriving Hungary of credit on the international financial markets and undermining the government's credibility.

Her effort to be ironic seriously backfires here, because her own column is actually proving the utility of the Google Books database in a way that emphasizes its lawful use of PD texts.

Jimmy Kimmel says Donald Trump's lawyers' attempt to shut down Michael Wolff's new book about the president's administration has seriously backfired.