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.