Sentence examples for unfortunately backfired from inspiring English sources

Tried to give my fellow jocks a bum steer but unfortunately backfired.

Founder and CEO of Roller Luke Finn says this can unfortunately backfire on businesses who don't clearly identify a separate queue for customers who have pre-purchased their tickets, as their level of satisfaction is quickly diminished when they realise they're being made to wait needlessly.

Unfortunately, it backfired and caused a worldwide run on financials because it did not dissipate, and even exacerbated, the fear of forced capital raising (or nationalisation).The events following Lehman's demise should have taught us that this fear needs to be put to rest until we can return to normality.

Unfortunately, this backfired when they all started lunging at my wrist to press what I now realise is a very large and obvious button.

Unfortunately, the plan backfired.

The mentor said that she'd done it to "create more openness between them" - but, unfortunately, that strategy backfired, and the mentee was left with a worse relationship with his boss than before.

This creates an incentive for Jane to stay at BioPharmGene, at least until she can cash in her options in year 4. Unfortunately, this concept has backfired on many companies--and their employees--since the "dot-bomb" tech stock crash earlier this year.

Unfortunately for Risner, the plan backfired quickly once she realized that the thing would not come off.

Unfortunately for Sykes, the self-policing has backfired on him because he tops the Madoff leaderboard.

Unfortunately, this misuse of female equality seems to have backfired on dating.

Unfortunately for the Mariners, many of the team's recent moves backfired and Ichiro Suzuki seemingly became mortal overnight.