Примери за misfired

• This was the paradox the president faced after his purge had misfired.

• One firework, which must have misfired, came over my fence and exploded above the lawn.

• It was not made with that intention and was intended to be a mildly facetious observation, which evidently misfired.

• We can guess the reasons for this, but they misfired.

• But the post has misfired in my area.

• That brings me to the matter of misfired shells—shells that have not hit their target.

• It misfired on the restriction of definition and on its narrow application.

• The issue of industrial relations and the code has misfired politically.

• I was commenting on one of his which misfired.

• I think it took place at the right psychological moment, and if it had taken place earlier it might very well have misfired.

• Who knows what would have happened if anyone had been within a couple of yards of that firework—admittedly, it misfired.

• It misfired—yet the author of the 10p tax gimmick has the nerve to accuse me of being "never a details man".

• They misfired and caused tremendous hardships, and they still do, to thousands of people who are in need.

• Unfortunately the first evacuation scheme largely misfired.

• Rarely can there have been a debate which was so much heralded and which has misfired as badly as the debate in the past three hours.