Some of the workers set backfires in an effort to control the blaze, but their attempts failed.
Secondly, when administrators try to chase performance, that is, to change from lower-performing funds to higher, it backfires.
Fact-checking backfires among people who have enough basic knowledge of politics to resist evidence that contradicts their beliefs!
Tax deferral backfires when it converts dividends and long-term gains taxable at 15% into ordinary income taxable at 35%.
Firefighters set backfires here yesterday to starve the fire of fuel should it decided to return on its rampage.
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If Bernanke pursues this course, a wizened populace ought to ensure it backfires.
Overloading the room always backfires because it makes you look inefficient and disorganized, and prospects will forget who does what anyway.
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It becomes a game of quantity, not quality, and it usually backfires.
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Stress is a funny thing kind of like eating in that you need the fuel to keep going, but chronic stress, like constantly eating, backfires.
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The document accepts that such campaigns could prove tricky for party headquarters, not least if it backfires, but it adds: "Local campaigns might take larger risks".
Mr Grimsson may find that his exciting stunt backfires.
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Lovers of "I Love Lucy" also have long cherished the unforgettable 1957 episode of that series in which TV's Superman (George Reeves) rescues Lucy (Lucille Ball) after one of her harebrained schemes backfires.
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Merck not only caught up by skipping a stage of trials (a risky move that often backfires), but its Januvia pill emerged with the entire market for the class when the Novartis drug ran into side effect problems at the FDA and was never approved.
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