21.   Safavi also warned the United States and Israel against attempts to destabilize the region, saying their efforts would backfire.

22.   Some in the television business suspect the effort may backfire.

23.   Some say his efforts have backfired, producing a head of state who sounds less intelligent than he is.

24.   The effort might backfire, said Darrell West, who studies political ads at Brown University and predicted many voters will see it as cynical and opportunistic.

25.   But the efforts may have backfired as they have given her the stature of leader of all the opposition to the Suharto regime.