Sentence examples for strategy has backfired from inspiring English sources

That strategy has backfired.

"If so, the strategy has backfired.

But in another way, Mr. Thomas's strategy has backfired.

As Goldsmith sees it, this strategy has backfired.

But the same strategy has backfired at times.

From obfuscating its origins, to exaggerating its impact, the White House's blame the GOP strategy has backfired.

Administration officials concluded that the strategy had backfired, making Mr. Karzai more resentful and resistant.

Within hours of polls closing, it was clear the strategy had backfired.

Yogendra Yadav, a political analyst here, said Mr. Hazare's strategy had backfired, especially since the increasingly strident attacks by his "Team Anna" advisers had continued even after the government met some, though hardly all, of his demands.

Democrats have long questioned the decision by the White House to have a sitting president personally engage an opponent this early in a race, and some said on Tuesday that strategy had backfired.

Some observers already claim his strategy had backfired, failed to boost him and only served to increase Le Pen's final result, which was double that of her father in the last presidential election in 2007.