"action" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- What if our action backfired, and only served to remind me, constantly, that the brother I wanted to honor was dead?
- But these actions backfired and instead the organization spread to several other prisons.
- This would indicate that any destructive actions could backfire.
- Even when political action doesn't backfire, when the movement gets what it wants, the effects are often startlingly malign.
- Such an action could backfire hugely if word of trouble started going around the auditorium.
- But he said unilateral action against the Serbs would backfire, making the West appear to be one more combatant.
- Cohen's action had backfired, and he could find no one among the Baganda prepared or able to mobilize support for his schemes.
- This action by Grishin backfired and was almost universally viewed as a cruel act.
- This year the authorities went further, although their action against Mr. Huang backfired.
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