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At around that time, those price increases started backfiring.

A stunned England woke Sunday to savage criticism after their meek capitulation in the first Ashes Test, branded "brainless" and "damaged" by former greats after their cavalier approach backfired.

However, the attempt to strengthen Sir Keir's position appeared to backfire as it brought talk of threats to his leadership into the open and sparked further criticism of the PM.

To make matters worse for the GOP, their structural redistricting advantage — especially without Texas, where the push kicked off — is shrinking and could backfire entirely without help from the Supreme Court.

“Yes. We worried that any attempt at rescue could backfire. And we dared not provoke Edward Ashton to action, for we feared what his action would be.”