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If he's gone too far, and the public simply view his stint in rehab as a publicity ploy, it could end up backfiring on him.

Still , the recent move in rates has been jarring , raising some market worries that the Fed's program might be ineffective or backfiring .

RIM tried to remedy this by announcing it would support Android apps, but this may be backfiring.

"I'm proud of what I've accomplished. But my whole life is backfiring. "

He even has a name for a future in which this kind of motivational backfiring becomes common: "the gamepocalypse. "

But could court victories end up backfiring and slowing the trend toward a wider acceptance of gays into American life?

Politically, the new austerity programme is backfiring already.

But, more importantly in Beijing, the low exchange rate is also backfiring economically by fueling inflation.

Still, to other Google watchers, such measures would ultimately end up backfiring.

But all work and no play is backfiring. A study by the World Health Organization and Harvard Medical. . .

the departed souls but looks like cheap Chinese use and dispose quality is backfiring on them!

In any case, a policy of containment risks backfiring, except against an unambiguously hostile China.

Noise from a gunshot, car backfiring or thunder, for instance, has a short-lived impact;