1.   Abram said that the policy has backfired.

2.   But if so, the policy may be backfiring.

3.   But the policy may have backfired.

4.   Gay rights advocates see the figures as evidence of their contention that the policy has backfired and subjected gay and lesbian soldiers to new harassment.

5.   Ill-conceived or -executed policies can easily backfire.

6.   In other cases, as in Asia and Russia, IMF policies have backfired, at least in the view of critics.

7.   The policy backfired.

8.   U.N. special envoy Jan Egeland, who has been monitoring the peace negotiations, warned this week, however, that hard-line policies could backfire.

9.   With computers becoming a vital aid to increased productivity and new product development, such policies could backfire, they said.

10.   With computers becoming a vital aid to increaed productivity and new product development, such policies could backfire, they said.