But later the plan backfires as Ariovistus begins a violent takeover of the territory of the Arverni and Sequani, exercising a cruel tyranny over them.

The first raid backfires because the team is unaware that the temple they plan to rob has been built of laser-reflecting crystal, which turns their beams back on themselves.

" On more than one occasion her plan to obtain Scrooge's dime backfires so spectacularly that she is forced to work with Scrooge to prevent greater disaster.

" Firefly agrees to the plan, but after a series of personal insults exchanged between Firefly and Trentino, the plan backfires and Firefly slaps Trentino instead.

This plan backfires when the funeral home talks Bergdorf's widow into having the funeral in Las Vegas, where the body is cremated – along with all the money.

He schemes to " get rich quick ", but his plan backfires and he barely escapes jail.

This plan backfires, as Halk Kar begins to assume a superior attitude to Superman and even begins to make romantic advances on Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane.

But the plan backfires, and it is Nola, not Bea, whose corpse is taken away from Wentworth.

The plan backfires when George is called upon to save a beached whale with a Titleist golf ball in its blowhole.

The plan backfires and the laboratory explodes, killing Keller.

She takes Elizabeth-Jane into her household as a companion, thinking it will give Henchard an excuse to come to visit, but the plan backfires because of Henchard's hatred of Elizabeth-Jane.

Unfortunately, the plan backfires when Gloria assumes that they are going in search of Robbie, believing that they are going to hire private detectives for the job.

The plan backfires, as Ra's is left writhing in the pit, seemingly destroyed.

His plan backfires and ends up at child services trying to give Julian back.

The plan backfires when Essex controls Laura's body and uses her to mortally wound Claudine again.

However, this plan backfires after Belthazor's human half, Cole Turner, falls deeply in love with Phoebe and turns good.

His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet.

Unfortunately, Flower and Stone are not the suckers Pozzi takes them for and the plan backfires.

She later works for Richard Channing, tries to doublecross him, but her plan backfires.

The plan backfires, however, when Rodan, having survived his battle with Godzilla and further mutated by radiation, responds to Baby's call and intercepts the UNGCC transport.

" ( after T. J .' s plan of a revenge prank on the Seniors backfires ).

The plan backfires: when the two Vykkers leave, Munch discovers he can use the electrical properties of his new implant to free the furry-but-vicious lab specimens called Fuzzles, and enlist them into attacking the Vykkers and their cohorts.

He soon became skilled, and promoted a plan for publishing, in Washington, portraits of eminent American statesmen ; however, he met with but slight encouragement.

The guards had been ordered in advance to turn a blind eye to such behaviour, and soon the potatoes had all been " stolen " and Kapodistrias ' plan to introduce them to Greece had succeeded.

As soon as the news broke in the morning of 1 September 1939 that Germany had invaded Poland, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini launched another desperate peace mediation plan intended to stop the German-Polish war from becoming a world war.

The plan failed however, because, under pressure from his relatives, the Emperor soon agreed to release Mieszko.

The Intelligenzaktion, a plan to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia, Poland's ' leadership class ', took place soon after the German invasion of Poland, lasting from fall of 1939 till spring of 1940.

In this approximately 800-word document about methods of franking letters he states, " Therefore, of Mr Hill ’ s plan of a uniform rate of postage … I conceive that the most simple and economical mode … would be by Slips … in the hope that Mr Hill ’ s plan may soon be carried into operation I would suggest that sheets of Stamped Slips should be prepared … then be rubbed over on the back with a strong solution of gum …".

The Founders soon learned of the plan, via a Changeling who impersonated Colonel Lovok of the Tal Shiar, and saw it as an opportunity to eliminate the two dangerous organizations.

The dawn of fascism in the early 1920s heralded a change of strategy for Italy, as the north-eastern sultanates were soon to be forced within the boundaries of La Grande Somalia according to the plan of Fascist Italy.

The Pentagon and FBI develop a plan to retake the island with a Navy SEAL Team, enlisting the bureau's top chemical weapons specialist, Dr. Stanley Goodspeed ( Nicolas Cage ), who initially thinks he's consulting the team, but soon learns that he has to accompany the SEALs due to his specialisation in chemical warfare.

Surveying was underway soon after the Jefferson conference plan for the Capitol was accepted.

* July 31 – WWII – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S. S. General Reinhard Heydrich to " submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question.

The 1st Airborne Division landed at 13: 30 without serious incident but problems associated with the poor plan began soon after.

The plan was canceled after an accident during the test landing when JATO units designed to cushion the landing fired too soon, causing the aircraft to crash-land.

His stated plan at the time was still to become a university professor ( a “ priest of truth ,” as he and his friends imagined it ), but he soon encountered and joined students of the " Young Hegelians " and the socialist movement in Berlin.

Rawlinson would soon compromise with Haig's plan, despite his views on the matter.

The plan is almost foiled when Bishop gets suspicious and has one of the men flogged in an attempt to make him talk, and Blood is spared a similar fate when a Spanish squadron attacks the town, During the raid, Blood and his fellow slaves escape, seize control of the Spanish raiders ' ship and sail away to begin a life of piracy, in which Blood soon achieves incredible success and fame.

Things do not happen according to plan though because the fire is detected too soon and the two old people are evacuated.

They take more money from investors than they need and plan to abscond to Brazil as soon as the play closes, only to see the plan improbably go awry when the show turns out to be a hit.

But it soon becomes clear that the Aschen plan to eradicate the human race slowly by making both women and men infertile so the human race dies out over generations.

IV Corps ' position was cloaked by dense mist during the early stage of the battle ; in fact how long the mist lasted was vital to Napoleon's plan: Soult's troops would become uncovered if the mist dissipated too soon, but if it lingered too long, Napoleon would be unable to determine when the Allied troops had evacuated Pratzen Heights, preventing him from timing his attack properly.

Before the fire was even out, School officials were working out a plan for over 300 students and their teachers to resume classes as soon as possible.

The plan succeeds a little too well for the servants ' liking, especially Victoria's chief secretary Sir Henry Ponsonby ( played by Geoffrey Palmer ) and The Prince of Wales ( played by David Westhead ) as well as other members of the Royal family ; the public, press and politicians soon come to resent Brown's perceived influence over the queen.

Its encyclopaedic content, its systematic arrangement and philosophical plan soon worked its way into a position of pre-eminence in the medical literature of Europe, displacing the works of Galen and becoming the text book for medical education in the schools of Europe.