They spent their next few possessions trying to run down the clock, but the strategy backfired.

Over Christmas, it became apparent that the strategy had backfired.

But that strategy often backfired with large projects where different groups depended on each other's performance.

That strategy, they're quick to point out, has backfired more than once.

But in at least one instance, his strategy backfired.

He says the party's strategy last year, laying the problems at his feet, backfired.

"They held out for more and maybe that strategy will backfire."

That is why this strategy could backfire on the electronics companies.

That strategy backfired, driving more people into the arms of the Islamists.

If he ever found out, the strategy would have backfired.