The plan backfired.

This time, however, the plan backfired.

And who squealed to the cops when the caper backfired?

I had a plan to kill my husband, but it backfired.

Indeed, the last humanitarian intervention has clearly backfired, turning Libya into a breeding ground for transnational militants.

That effort appears to have backfired, because the Republicans that he leads initially balked at passing the legislation.

However, that has now backfired, since the Sadrists are the only group other than Maliki s coalition of Shia parties that supports him.

It seems, however, that the Turkish government's plan to censor dissent has backfired, as tweets coming out from Turkey are on the rise.

The conspiracy, known as the Rye House Plot, backfired upon its conspirators and provoked a wave of sympathy for the King and James.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists.

Rather than offering to do away with its cotton subsidies, America offered to open up American markets to cotton imports an essentially meaningless public relations move that quickly backfired.

An attempt at a primary to choose Fatah candidates backfired, owing to fraud and the losers refusal to honor the results. Rival Fatah candidates then split the party s vote, allowing Hamas an easy victory.

The US lost its ability to play a more constructive role in the region following its ill fated intervention in Iraq, while the Bush administration s neo conservative freedom agenda for the Arab world also backfired.

Sometimes her efforts were heavy handed, as when she embraced AIDS victims physically as a metaphor for social inclusion sometimes they backfired, as when her shared intimacies with servants provided fodder for a flood of posthumous tell all books.

The Republicans explicit campaign of disenfranchisement in some states like Pennsylvania, where they tried to make it more difficult for African Americans and Latinos to register to vote backfired those whose rights were threatened were motivated to turn out and exercise them.

The late Stephen J. Gould, author of The Mismeasure of Man, dismissed cross cultural research using IQ tests as an attempt by white men to show their superiority. But if that was so, the attempt has backfired, because East Asians tend to score better than people of European descent.