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The plan backfires when the press falls all over him.
A firefighter lights backfires during the Carr fire in Redding.
This backfires entirely, because none of them can stand her.
But none of that matters if Sunday's big test backfires.
Second, trying to shift from anxiety to calm generally backfires.
It's a defense of last resort and almost always backfires.
When celebrity protects, and when it backfires, intensifying public vitriol.
The spell backfires, ripping her away from Tom for years.
Rent control typically backfires by reducing supply and compounding shortages.
The two girls' lives are deeply intertwined, and sometimes that backfires.
Every time Mr. Giamatti gamely leans into the melodrama, it backfires.
And if a woman does that, it just backfires on her.
Be careful what you wish for, folks ... 'cause it usually backfires.
Often, art fuels snobbery and snobbery always backfires on the snob.
This is kneejerk liberalism that backfires and damages its own cause.
What if it backfires and people are like, 'You are old!
When that backfires, the result is personal tragedy and economic waste.
You kept trying to use hopeless backfires to control the blaze.
In autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, the immune system backfires.
Garrett's plan to get Dani's trolls off of his back obviously backfires.
But occasionally it backfires spectacularly, with every single batsman getting himself out.
Wendell tries to similarly reassure Laurel, but in his case it backfires.
The problem is that technology backfires when people don't understand how it works.
Granted this gives Facebook a pretty clever excuse when this inevitably backfires—us.
Removing fakes has proved complicated for Amazon, however, and sometimes the system backfires.
This is the path to fanaticism, and it always backfires in the end.
That basically backfires because Kim spends the whole time making fun of her pieces.
On Saturday, firefighters lit backfires to try to contain the blaze in Geyserville, Calif.
Responding to the haters so often backfires, leaving you looking like the crazy one.
In other words, a parody of self-mythologizing backfires and becomes the real thing.
David's decision backfires in a big way and Susan drops out of the race.
Locking up nonviolent offenders and drug users almost always backfires, instead strengthening organized crime.
There's no such thing as getting rich quick; anything that's too easy often backfires.
Seeming to back protests may play well with Hong Kongers but backfires among mainland influencers.
And sometimes, he said, it has been used to fight forest fires by setting backfires.
That backfires, and she bonds with a psychology professor who might have also been exiled.
I suppose Delaney wants him there to keep farmer Ibbotson quiet, which, um, really backfires.
Many mothers try to force their children to adopt their faith, but that often backfires.
As with generals fighting the last war, experience shows this rarely works and often backfires.
They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires.
The increased use of large and costly backfires can likely be traced to such incentives.
Sometimes you try to do a nice thing, and it just royally backfires, you know?
And while killing civilians often backfires in war, the strategy may be effective in Syria.
I saw the strategy as more to do with withholding, and I think it backfires.
But it backfires in the long-term when you can't afford to pay your bills.
Entrepreneurs often get so caught up in expanding their business that it actually backfires, Ryan said.
Technology has never limited its effects to those its creators intended: It disrupts, reshapes, and backfires.
This behavior nearly always backfires, because it looks like you want your manager to play favorites.
Golden is very strict about the no-interference rule, because it usually backfires — for the matchmaker.
This however, backfires if your selected region is far from the locality of the game server.
"Sometimes it kind of backfires, I think, on the trolls," says Schumer in the clip above.
Though killing civilians often backfires in war, in this case it may be all too effective.
And firearms (albeit not nearly fun as the story's PIG) are sometimes used to start backfires.
It's inconsistent, so I think he uses it brilliantly sometimes and it backfires on him sometimes.
And it's certainly true that when a damn-the-torpedoes decision backfires, the result is explosive.
Moral appeals ("we're a nation of immigrants") will only take them so far, and often backfires.
This strategy usually backfires with chief executives, since it makes a candidate seem less honest and trustworthy.
It ultimately backfires on Erlich, as the students decide to launch a SeeFood rival of their own.
This backfires spectacularly when the Duke of Mantua, a kind of 16th-century Harvey Weinstein, finds her.
CNN gives her a town hall to try to boost Democratic fortunes, but it backfires big time.
Giving ultimatums, where you harshly demand a particular salary from a prospective employer, usually backfires, Lindner said.
It's a high stakes gambit that often backfires on the party that is perceived to provoke it.
Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires.
Given the injury concerns surrounding Conley, Parsons, and Gasol, there's a chance that this entire thing backfires.
As the scheme backfires, the boy has to partner up with the officer to protect his family.
As the scheme backfires, the boy has to partner up with the officer to protect his family.
Samsung is still trying too hard to make your photos look good, and the effort often backfires.
He yearns to make the company more profitable, but his big move in that direction backfires, humiliatingly.
They insist that hyper-parenting backfires — creating a generation of stressed-out kids who can't function alone.
It's no secret that telling someone to "calm down" while they're mid-rage backfires more often than not.
But the joke's on them: The writer strikes back using a savvy satirical touch, and the bullying backfires.
TRENDING -- WHEN TECHNOLOGY HILARIOUSLY BACKFIRES: A man got stuck in the mud while trying to take a photograph.
This disproportionate emphasis on literacy backfires in later grades, when children's lack of subject matter knowledge impedes comprehension.
Elsewhere, researchers find that mere exposure to marginalized groups of people backfires when it comes to progressive policymaking.
Though Mr. Spacey gamely obeys these directives and applies his usual polish to them, all of it backfires.
But as any Hollywood executive can tell you, he's entering a dangerous line of work that often backfires.
Her bid to stand up for Mr. Mason at the estate auction backfires, causing public embarrassment for the Crawleys.
Of course, this mentality backfires with issues such as sexual assault when people are held accountable for their actions.
In this photo, firefighters attack the north flank with backfires near the resort town of Ojai on Dec. 9.
But the heartfelt, you-deserve-someone-who-likes-you-for-you talk backfires: Dill realizes that Elijah is right.
A plot by Dougal to bring in more troops also backfires, landing him and his men on sentry duty.
"Contrary to some popular beliefs, shaming people about their weight actually backfires and leads to greater overeating," said Gearhardt.
If the move backfires — especially if Rapinoe is not injured — then Ellis will bear the brunt of the blame.
It backfires on them—they advertise what they are doing to the rest of the world, flaunting their wealth.
" And then everyone was like, "Nah, let's not put our names on this yet, just in case it totally backfires.
Still, Trump's approach represents a serious gamble, that could get him into deep legal and political waters if if backfires.
Correspondingly, a potential source of unintentional or inadvertent nuclear war could be a visible strategy of "feigned irrationality" that backfires.
So if you have a particular opinion about something, you're instantly alienating 50 percent of those people… it often backfires.
Correspondingly, a potential source of unintentional or inadvertent nuclear war could be a visible strategy of "feigned irrationality" that backfires.
Sometimes, though, the tactic backfires, as it did when promised free pork failed to arrive over Christmas, prompting street protests.
"Bonnie, I deserve this," Annalise croaks after their dim plan to let Frank take the fall for All The Murders backfires.
Silencing Elizabeth Warren backfires on Senate GOP Qualifications Harris is a former San Francisco prosecutor, and is at home at hearings.
Rosa and her new friend, Jasper, come to understand that banishment always backfires, as it has with the ghosts of Ingot.
Even if the strategy backfires in the fall midterms, Miller's game — drive the outrage, refuse to retreat — will remain the same.
His father, the late Sir Reginald Hargreeves, tries to help him overcome this fear by locking him in a mausoleum — this backfires.
Occasionally, this strategy backfires spectacularly, as the recent case of the four-story penis mural illustrates, but in general it holds true.
Speaking of programming that backfires, we have a chat about algorithms — the inherent biases in them, and the tricky ethics of bots.
This backfires today because we hear about all sorts of things that seem dangerous but aren't likely to harm us at all.
Unlike capitalism and patriarchy, the illusion surrounding old age is that it is an illusion: Encouragement by denial, however well-meaning, backfires.
Copious research shows that this kind of dystopian framing backfires, driving people further into denial and helplessness; instead of acting, they freeze.
But if an endorsement backfires and creates dissension with the rest of the field, then "you build enemies for life," said Sen.
Trump should simply drop this push back effort as a main focus of his campaign as soon as possible before it potentially backfires.
To drum up support, the cast are doing a radio interview about the night, but it quickly backfires when a listener calls in.
Yes, calling people on their shit and pushing all their buttons can be an effective way to terrify them—but this often backfires.
The common belief is that it's a lost cause and only backfires, as Rubio learned the hard way, on the person who tries.
It's a move that totally backfires later, but first, they join up with Dany and Tyrion in Meereen and declare themselves loyal to her.
The team again obliges, only this time it backfires, as every Michigan player on the court with 11:15 to play collapses and vomits.
It all backfires when there is a mass shooting perpetrated by a woman, and then, gun control legislation successfully passes in the California house.
But if the price rises, the bet backfires as the short-seller still has to buy the shares to return them at some point.
If it backfires, Facebook will annoy users who are used to ad-blocking software, and could lose revenue as people opt out of ads.
However, Payton's decision quickly backfires, when it comes out that Infinity had made a gay slur on video, which puts Payton's campaign in jeopardy.
However, the radical shift in scale backfires in some cases, suggesting an artist's full-scaled abstract sculpture as little more than monumental bling bling.
Sometimes willingly confining yourself backfires, as the Belgian performance artist Mikes Poppe discovered recently after spending 438 hours chained to a block of marble.
He would prefer to make deals with them in areas of common interest, these officials said, believing that pressure on human rights generally backfires.
If Democrats' high-risk strategy backfires, instead of weakening and removing Trump, they could catapult him back into the White House stronger than ever.
Perhaps this is her way of opting out of the game — especially since when she tries, as with her various hats, it often backfires.
And Democratic front-runner Joe Biden immediately swung into sober commander-in-chief mode, positioning himself to profit politically if Trump's Iran venture backfires.
If the conversation backfires and legitimate points are met with hostility or backlash, then it's time to look for a new job (and boss) anyway.
While the relationship starts out as a ruse, the plan eventually backfires on her son when she and the friend actually fall for one another.
As the Saviors open fire, every single one of their guns backfires, blowing off hands or otherwise severely injuring every single member of Negan's army.
Lt. Commander Zuck in court after his plan to study humans in greater detail backfires from pics Enjoy never getting this out of your head.
Clinton has had several backfires on social media, notably when she asked her followers to tweet three emojis to describe their feelings about college debt.
One billboard surely won't change the race at all, but if Bush's team continues to pursue this messaging strategy, they may find that it backfires.
As a result, they fail to truly connect with their environment and the people around them — and it always backfires in one way or another.
Campaigns are uniquely different, the electorate is changing, and there is increasing evidence that overt sexism backfires against the candidate or party appealing to it.
"When you exercise this level of control over employees, even with good intentions, it often backfires," said Heather Bussing, an employment lawyer in Northern California.
RELATED: Silencing Elizabeth Warren backfires on Senate GOP She said Democrats are intent on showing that Trump's Cabinet nominees' records run counter to his campaign pledges.
The ranchers reportedly set backfires as a wild land blaze bore down on the area, but set them at night and didn't warn nearby firefighting crews.
What we did on the self-esteem bandwagon is we did the whole thing of helping the child feel worthy but without the competence; it backfires.
In other words, if this strategy backfires you could actually end up with an even worse outcome than if you'd just left the other party alone.
But the withholding of details necessary to engineer the initial lull backfires in the second half, when the lack of specificity leaves the characters ill defined.
Until, of course, it backfires when it's revealed that "Alonzo" royally screwed over Adams, and she verbally attacks him, promising to make sure that he dies homeless.
In the episode titled "Eve's Band," Mike (Allen) tries to break-up his daughter Eve's (Kaitlyn Dever) new band because they sound horrible; however, his plan backfires.
We have been here twice before -- under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush -- and we know that this order often backfires, leading to increased abortion rates.
The Arc Hub is quite small and easy to carry around, but the circular design finally backfires if you don't have a desk to place it on.
For all the good Reddit can do, it can make an enormous mess of things, and then it can react badly when the mess it makes backfires.
After Bakula tries to tell the young Trump not to go into politics, it backfires and only inspires him to do it just to spite his driver.
"Change may impose additional costs, as managers may not be well incentivized to make the change, while fearing the cost if a change backfires," wrote the team.
"When parents are too focused on every bite and pressure their children to eat, it usually backfires as toddlers then refuse, similar to potty training," said Altmann.
Humblebrag backfires: Louise Linton, actress and wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, drew the ire of social media for flaunting her wealth on the American taxpayers' dime.
He also noted that fighting wildfires includes many tactics — clearing brush with bulldozers and hand crews, for example, and setting backfires — that don't use any water at all.
That strategy backfires: rather than save Maeve, Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) decides that it would be more effective to let her body die, keeping only her valuable code.
One way this is true is that managers get anxious to affect outcomes in ways that they're restrained from trying in the regular season, and it usually backfires.
If what you're offered is cheap, unwanted or wasteful, you won't think of what you're receiving as a gift but rather as a trick -- and the tactic backfires.
They have the resiliency of Wile E. Coyote, picking themselves up after each failed plot backfires and redoubling their efforts to destroy their foe with ill-conceived plans.
The even funnier part, it backfires: funds with positive gravitas exposure in their names underperform those with negative gravitas by almost 1 percent of alpha, or outperformance, a year.
Takeaways: There's some evidence that trying to track everything your kid does backfires: Kids create secret accounts and stop talking openly about what's happening because they feel spied on.
What Harris and other would-be presidential candidates must be careful about is positioning themselves so far to the left that it backfires in a general election against Trump.
However, this approach sometimes backfires; I struggled to find the macro mode, only to realize it's hidden in one of the dots above the menu in the camera app.
BOOTHE: And I -- I was going to say, I&aposve worked on races where you&aposve seen an opponent just run a smear ad like this, and it actually backfires.
When people resolve to stop wasting money or stop eating junk food, for example, it often backfires because it makes them think about the very thing they're trying to avoid.
Merager, an 18-year Forest Service veteran, said Australians will provide much of the equipment, such as tools for digging fire lines and drip torch cans used for setting backfires.
" He said the referendum would backfire on Hungary if it failed: "We will give Brussels a trump card as our weapon backfires: Hungarians will not have legally rejected the quotas.
A provocative headline—"Teflon Don Confounds Democrats"—obscures what's basically a banal argument: No election is a sure thing and revving up the base sometimes backfires when making a broader appeal.
Bojack ends up taking the muffins, which backfires horribly after the seal — actually a Navy SEAL returning from service in Afghanistan — goes on TV to tell the world about this behavior.
In their view, trade equals jobs and prosperity, and concern about human rights too often backfires, getting in the way of efforts by the United States government to increase all three.
You know it's a problem if you turn to social media to distract yourself from emotions you don't want to feel (that backfires anyway, since Instagram is a human-powered inadequacy factory).
Companies host D&I events and speakers; hire vice presidents of D&I; organize "diversity training" (which, according to copious evidence, doesn't work and in fact often backfires.) They talk about diversity.
"It does provide some energy to their base, but it backfires with people of color, and with suburban voters, and independent voters, particularly independent women," said Celinda Lake, president of Lake Strategies.
"When Hollywood and singers and all go political, it sounds in the moment like it's very popular, and we've seen so many times where it backfires and it blows up," Conway said.
A Michigan study from several years ago found that presenting voters with facts contrary to their views often backfires, with misinformed voters actually becoming more attached to their beliefs in some cases.
Republicans are also defending dozens of other seats that the party now holds, but they are finding that in many places the Trump playbook can go only so far before it backfires.
Even this backfires; when she calls him out as an Eye, he admits it and then mutters, "Go to bed before I report you," a bone-dry joke with a weary threat beneath.
Of course, this approach is rather risky for the aides themselves, because if their preferred policy backfires or becomes a problem in the press, Trump will simply blame them for steering him astray.
"Throwing a milkshake is not equivalent to killing someone, but because the people in power are allied with the right, any provocation, any dissent against right-wing violence, backfires," Professor Ben-Ghiat said.
SHIJIAZHUANG, China (Reuters) - Severe natural gas shortages are hitting businesses and residents across China's industrial heartland as an unprecedented government effort to clean up an environment devastated by decades of unbridled growth backfires.
But in an advance clip released by the BBC, that central gimmick backfires in the most heartbreaking way, when one of the primate robots is accidentally dropped and "killed" by a curious langur monkey.
However, even if impeachment backfires on the Democrats politically, as I suspect it might, the realities embedded in the emerging population data illustrate a serious uphill battle for Trump to win reelection in 2020.
Soon enough, her hedonism backfires: After her boyfriend is busted for selling drugs, White Girl's camera follows Leah's feverish zigzag between her own highs and lows as she works to get him released from prison.
The problem is that Trump's saber-rattling backfires, helping Maduro by playing into a narrative of Yankee imperialism, and his politicization of humanitarian aid makes it less likely that starving people will actually be fed.
However, given the relatively infrequent occurrence of backfire effects — they occur less frequently than initially thought — I would lean towards being more explicit as this might maximize the overall impact even if the occasional person backfires.
She's also been ignoring her other daughter Chloe (Darby Camp) by my count, and it all backfires when it turns out Chloe is better at more than just making a playlist — she's a budding busy body.
"I've got to say, this is nothing short of extraordinary," Ryan said, after a high-risk win that could be the cornerstone of his own legacy or if it backfires will eventually frame his political epitaph.
It should be fairly obvious that you are not supposed to root for Neil Gamby to succeed in defeating Brown, or even feel bad every time one of his pathetic schemes backfires right into his face.
"There has always been this dangerous part of him that will go too far and do something that backfires," said Michael D'Antonio, the author of "The Truth About Trump," a new biography of the real estate mogul.
And we've seen so many times where it backfires and it blows up, and she's also somebody who went up against President Trump head to head in the United States Senate race in Tennessee and lost handily.
You get the political belly-flop of the year, a ridiculous moment that wins saturation coverage from the Trump-obsessed mainstream media but backfires against the candidate who calls opponents "losers" but wound up losing in Iowa.
Short-sellers, whose strategy is to borrow a company's shares and turn a profit if its price falls, tend to push a stock even higher if their prediction backfires, as they rush to sell and mitigate their losses.
AUTO STRENGTH BACKFIRES Research house CRU forecast at its London aluminum conference in April that global aluminum usage growth was set to ease to 13% this year from 21% in 9504 and 23% in both 2017 and 2016.
AUTO STRENGTH BACKFIRES Research house CRU forecast at its London aluminium conference in April that global aluminium usage growth was set to ease to 13% this year from 21% in 9504 and 23% in both 2017 and 2016.
It doesn't work on everyone, and certainly not all the time—sometimes it even backfires—but when used properly and responsibly, it can help us navigate difficult people, while also getting folks to do things for their own good.
Timeline: March 28, 2017: May invokes "Article 50," giving the U.K. two years to finalize its withdrawal from the EU. June 8, 2017: May's decision to call a snap election to bolster the Conservative majority ahead of Brexit negotiations backfires spectacularly.
Donning orange fire-resistant suits and carrying 60 pounds of support gear on their backs, they're on the front lines of the wildfires with chain saws and hand tools, clearing brush or setting backfires to stop the flames from spreading.
Zillow sent a letter earlier this week threatening legal action over the blog's use of images taken from the real estate giant's site — but as these boneheaded corporations just can't seem to learn, this sort of thing generally backfires, as it did today.
Our democracy is empowered when we can imagine a country in which we can send our children to school without worrying they'll need bulletproof backpacks, in which we can gather in the streets without being spooked into stampeding when a motorcycle backfires.
China also is familiar with the economic pain and uncertainty inflicted by Trump: China and Russia -- both core allies of Iran -- both have much to lose if Tehran's revenge backfires, and potentially much to gain if the theocratic leadership can unseat Trump.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia braced for an election that was too close to call on Friday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warning of economic chaos if his gamble on an early poll backfires and leaves him without the outright majority he needs to enact major reforms.
Hugo the Hornet and Harry the Hawk are disemboweled by the Raptor while Go the Gorilla's jumping-through-a-flaming-hoop trick backfires and it becomes a walking inferno with Franklin and Blaze the Trail Cat later huddling over the smoldering corpse for warmth.
She casts a spell to revive the dead dog of Archie's best friend, Jughead Jones, but it backfires — and Jughead is the first citizen of Riverdale to join the ranks of the undead, his hunger for burgers replaced by a craving for human flesh.
Trump's National Anthem Tirade Backfires Across NFLPresident Trump's call for owners to fire "son of a bitch" football players who kneel in protest during the national anthem was met with a bold rebellion from teams across the nation and in the UK on Sunday.
Critic score: 85%Audience score: 77%In this high-school rom-com that breathes new life into Nathaniel Hawthorne's famed novel "The Scarlet Letter," Stone plays the teenager Olive Penderghast who lies about having sex with people to make her more popular — until it backfires.
They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires," Trump  wrote  before  adding , "The Fake Mainstream Media has, from the time I announced I was running for President, run the most highly sophisticated & dishonest Disinformation Campaign in the history of politics.
Silencing Elizabeth Warren backfires on Senate GOP With the Senate poisoned, the House in the grip of a zealous GOP majority and a new president who only knows one political strategy -- all-out personal attack -- there is every reason to think the animosity will continue to boil.
In episode 3643 of the show's fifth season, titled "The One With All The Resolutions," Ross' New Year's resolution to try something new every day backfires after he goes on a date in leather pants, gets overheated, takes them off, and is unable get them back on.
I usually have to get high before I go out and do anything social, but every once in a while, it backfires because I'll like get high, go out, and then be like, Whoa I'm too high for this I need ice cream and water ASAP.
SYDNEY, July 503 (Reuters) - Australia braced for an election that was too close to call on Friday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warning of economic chaos if his gamble on an early poll backfires and leaves him without the outright majority he needs to enact major reforms.
Journalist Mocked After $22 Avocado Toast Purchase Backfires Many people have written to The Interface asking when we are going to comment on Friend of the Newsletter Taylor Lorenz's viral tweet in which she was disappointed by the avocado toast that she ordered through Seamless, which cost $22.
Missouri GOP maneuver backfires When Missourians gathered more than 300,73 petition signatures to force a referendum on the state's right-to-work law, Republicans who control the state legislature tried to protect the union-busting law with a maneuver they thought would tip the outcome in their favor.
In factual matters, there's some evidence that debunking people — for example, by telling Republicans that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, or Democrats that the Bush administration did not ban all stem cell research — actually backfires and leads them to hold their current wrong beliefs more stridently.
With U.S. troops recently sent to NATO ally Poland for the first time, which a Kremlin spokesman described as "a threat to us," it's easy to imagine Putin making a comparable mistake of trying to coerce the Baltic nations to rejoin the Russian sphere of influence, only to discover that the move backfires.

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