1. A similar standoff in 1995 forced a government shutdown widely viewed as having backfired on the Republicans who then controlled Congress.
2. Attempts to expand through capital alliances with consumer credit firms backfired after courts cut the interest rates they can charge.
3. But the experiment backfired and wiped out the local fish in the lake.
4. An attempt by a German thief to change his appearance after a robbery backfired Monday when a hairdresser tipped off the police.
5. Many people in the ROK believe Lee's hardline stance toward the DPRK has backfired and pushed the two neighbors further apart in recent years.
6. A young man has pleaded guilty to a charge of assault for forcing his girlfriend to drink hot pepper oil when a joke backfired.
7. McClaren's job was effectively snatched from him in the first 14 minutes at Wembley as his selection gambles backfired.
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8. But the plan backfired when the three main opposition parties refused to take part.
9. But his appeal backfired as the SFA's disciplinary committee opted to treble his original punishment.
10. The biased reportage on the Lhasa riot of March 14 by CNN and other sections of the Western press has backfired.