Microsoft laid it on quite thick with Windows 8, and the strategy is backfiring immensely.
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Now, though, that decision seems to be backfiring, and might mean additional problems for video game-makers.
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Oregon, Colorado, Michigan and Illinois have created early release programs that are backfiring.
One resident, 30-year-old Rebecca Carbone, said she head a loud blast that "sounded like a car backfiring".
Building in a rigid response to deal with a crisis is tempting for leaders, but risks backfiring.
Cutting federal spending has nearly the same backfiring effect because so many dollars now flow directly to households.
Cutting federal spending risks nearly the same backfiring effect because so many dollars now flow directly to households.
The government's intention to protect consumers could end up backfiring on consumers by harming retailers, authors and publishers.
Of course the problem with such massive contracts is their propensity for backfiring.
Big banks have been facing a barrage of problems as sloppy lending during the bonanza years is now backfiring.
They have been designed in part to tackle fly-tipping, but Mr Jenkins said they risked backfiring and making the problem worse.
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The most common incidents -- the slam of a door, a car backfiring, a surprise tap on the shoulder -- can cause a panic reaction.
That effort to get more flying out of planes and crews ended up backfiring it created longer delays and widespread disruption when tighter schedules couldn't be met.
Pfizer also got a big boost from a backfiring Bristol study that showed high-dose Lipitor was better than Pravachol in some of the sickest heart patients.
Personally, I think that such efforts almost always end up backfiring and that an increase in tensions is exactly what the Kremlin would most like to achieve.
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With the BJP's boosterish rhetoric backfiring, towards the end of its campaign it was jettisoned in favour of a stress on the virtues of continuity and stability.
Unfortunately, the community that Google has created and continues to foster may end up backfiring as other companies choose to invest in social networks with broader user demographics.
That implies the Army is squeezing contractors too tightly, and that the demanding terms it is trying to force on industry could end up backfiring by weakening the industrial base on which it depends.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger insists his side can still have a big say on the title race - but his bold claims looked in danger of backfiring as Dirk Kuyt gave Liverpool a deserved interval lead.
But even leaving aside the inconveniently privileged upbringing of some members of the Labour cabinet, and the open question whether Eton and Oxford is a weirder background than a Scottish manse and a lifetime in Labour politics Mr Brown's salvo risks backfiring.
And I'm wondering if you could comment on some of the other things that she said in that speech -- essentially saying that she opposes easy solutions that risk backfiring, and that Germany's power is not infinite and so its responsibility is to deploy our strengthen credibly so we can be of full use to Europe.
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