1.   But most analysts predict the scheme will backfire.

2.   But the scheme backfired, he said, because Thomas read off the answers in the wrong order.

3.   He added that his name-association scheme could backfire.

4.   His scheme backfires.

5.   If farmers are not careful, a new report warns, the scheme could backfire and breed even more troublesome strains of pests.

6.   Serves her right that the scheme has backfired horribly, as the savvy Giuliani has returned her serve with a series of perfect backhanded sound bites.

7.   Similarly, poorly thought-out, pay-for-performance schemes can backfire.

8.   The scheme backfired.

9.   We knew each carefully hatched scheme would backfire.

10.   When her scheme backfires, getting her in trouble with dangerous people, she must leave town.