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What Backfired For Cree Post 2013?

Given that our efforts at simplification appear to have backfired, what we have done is to modify the drawing to include a putative retrotranslocon, and then state explicitly in the text of the figure legend that the drawing reflects one possibility among several.

But what if that backfires?

But what if this backfires?

Healthier Than Thou? "Practicing What You Preach" Backfires by Increasing Anticipated Devaluation.

In some cases, the overall result can be what's called "backfire": more energy use than would have occurred without the improved efficiency.

The idea is to disconnect the memory from the reactions to the memory, so that although the memory of the traumatic event remains, the everyday things that can trigger fear and panic, such as trash blowing across the interstate or a car backfiring — what psychologists refer to as cues — are restored to insignificance.

Finally, I always hold a few stocks that should do well if the rest of what I expect backfires.

Not for the first time, Mark Carney's policy of guiding the markets as to what to expect has backfired.

But what happened was it backfired on them, because while they were gone, they said, "Oh let Dale sit out there, we gotta have somebody out there on the front line".

So there is a lesson here: what you do can backfire.