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Think back on a time when you did this, you know now that it backfired.

Revenge tends to only make you look bad. Harry may at times have tried to get his icky cousin into trouble, but it always backfired.

But this initiative backfired when some aggrieved players used the information to track down and reveal personal details about him.

'I think it's right to say that that risk has backfired on us. I feel embarrassed about it, ' he said.

The effort comes just a year after a crackdown on pedophilia backfired.

Speed's gamble of being the first to stop for dry tyres backfired and he needed four pit stops in total on his way to 12th place.

"When were tried to lay on something before it has backfired . The whole village has been gridlocked , " she said.

But this confidence building measure seems to have backfired.

"It's backfired before, " Mr. Craig said. "We've had bad guys become good guys and then bad guys again. But you got to try. "

Like all entrepreneurs, Mr Diamond has chalked up a litany of daring moves over the years - a few have backfired, but most have paid off.

But the plan backfired, with modern-day historians claiming that Versailles was a key factor in the lead-up to World War II.

This has sometimes backfired because I'd end up with more than I could handle and the quality of my work would suffer.

But "Onslaught" backfired somewhat: the company, after all, is part of the industry it mocked.

All of our plans seem to have backfired.

Attempts by authorities to squelch digital communications as a way of managing unruly gatherings have largely backfired.

The reforms backfired because policy makers treated the countryside too much like the cities, he says.

The content industry has tried to control people, without accepting the changing landscape of its industry, and it has backfired on them.

But the ban, seen as an attempt to suppress an embarrassment, has backfired gloriously.

If the publication of the tapes was a bid to destroy the ex-communists' party, it has backfired.

But Russia's threats to target the two sites with its own nuclear missiles backfired.

Congratulations. Another one of your genius plans has backfired on you.

"If this was somehow aimed at punishing or weakening Uganda's resolve, we think that this has backfired, " Crowley said.

In other words, nobody would hire him because he was currently making too much money for his experience -- thus, his high salary backfired.

We wanted to spend six months traveling in Europe, but our plan backfired when we ran out of money.

Such an intention backfired upon Earth in the long haul.

But Colombia's desire to play up the deterrent effect of the agreement has backfired.

Three days earlier, riot police had broken up the first pockets of protest. But their heavy-handed tactics backfired.

This has usually backfired, only driving Japan and other Asian states to more tightly unify with the U. S. and against China.

Yet if the aim was to engage Mr Obama on Mr Kim's terms, it has backfired.

Their campaign backfired: AK swept back for a second term and Mr Gul became president.

Either my only attempt to strike a light tone backfired, or else his humor was too subtle for me.

But attempts to clamp down on coverage have mostly backfired.

The experiment backfired and actually destroyed parts of their own related star system.

In challenging Mr. Locke, however, Mr. Rui's aggressiveness appears to have backfired.

"The sums that were talked about were not serious, " said a senior European official. "It would have backfired. "

"Patrick Vieira celebrated a goal in the same way but it backfired and he was injured for five weeks in 1997, " warned the Gunners boss.

Rothschild: Yes, I'm terribly sorry. We planned to increase output, but it all backfired. And we could have used more security.

Has it ever backfired for any of your coworkers, and if so, how?

I guess your idea backfired . She probably still likes you anyway, so go talk to her.

That decision backfired, with serious political repercussions.

His plan backfired, and he lost all his money.

But the initiative is also a tacit admission by the government that the effort to feed the country at all costs may have backfired.

The pleasures of prosperity backfired. They bred carelessness and complacency.

As elsewhere, attempts to manage food prices through trade restrictions have backfired.

This defensiveness has backfired, and the credibility of climatologists has suffered.

Now with "One Child Policy" this clearly has backfired for China. No worries, there are many girls on other countries!

Whatever the reason, the choice backfired, as history would have suggested.

It backfired, though, and the economic situation worsened considerably.

Porsche, a carmaker controlled by the Pië ch and Porsche families, also had to be bailed out after a bid to buy Volkswagen backfired.

It is fair to say that the decision to house the guests in DU has backfired. There are few visitors coming and they have other options too.

The attempt backfired when the credit crisis began, crippling Porsche's ability to pay down debt.

The ECB also conducted purchases of bonds, traders said, but that may have backfired.

But ever-rising student numbers then met ever-shrinking budgets, so the reforms backfired.

Some green industrial policies have backfired already.

Turning the taps off completely has " backfired " badly on Russia, says a diplomat.

That backfired. = That happened opposite to my plan.

That strategy has now backfired as borrowers are finding it more difficult to repay their loans.

Her plan to snoop on the kids backfired and they lost their trust in her .

But today it is losing customers and revenue, and smarting from decisions that backfired.

His plan was backfired, and he suffered great loss.

Thus, the speaker's suggestion may eventually get backfired.

But most dramatic of all, the move backfired on the prime minister himself.

My plan to cheat at cards backfired when I got caught and punched by my friends .

When we've tried to lay on something before it has backfired.

Attempts to infiltrate it have often backfired.

Mr Kim's belligerence has backfired in political terms too.

This time, however, the ploy backfired.

Agreements with tribes have backfired in the past, providing the Taliban, al-Qaida and other groups with safe havens.

I am not sure how to reconcile low congestion with regular turnover of spaces, but anyway the plan backfired in my case.

This isn't the first time mass speculation backfired.

His scheme to win the girl backfired, and she went to another guy.

The generals suffered a humiliating defeat last year when a campaign to prevent Mr Gul from becoming president backfired.

Some, like last year's infamous Buzz , backfired and were scrapped.

European quotas on Chinese textiles have backfired

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