Sentence examples for Very counterproductive from inspiring English sources

I believe that it's very counterproductive".

"I think it's very counterproductive what they're doing," he said.

"There is a strong antijudiciary feeling that I feel is very counterproductive".

In the longer term they are very counterproductive; they are undermining the values of our society".

"[IPAs] need ongoing support and any uncertainty around the future funding is just very counterproductive.

"A public health focus on 'You can change,' or 'This is your fault,' can be very counterproductive," he said.

That is really counterproductive".

"The Russian measure is very unfortunate and counterproductive to our efforts to restore our dialogue and cooperation with Russia," the statement said.

And that was no anomaly: read Lawrence Wright's piece in this week's issue of The New Yorker to get a sense of how very distorted and counterproductive our relationship with Pakistan is.

I'm not really sure what to do to arrest this dynamic, but it seems likely to me that because of the incentives we create, as consumers and producers of social media, we're likely to keep seeing this sort of very risky, objectively counterproductive, attention-hogging Battle Royale more and more often.

Mr. Kokoshin said that Mr. Putin's constructive approach to Beijing will be a useful reminder to the Bush administration that "it is a big mistake to treat China as an enemy and potential competitor and any attempt to isolate them would be very dangerous and counterproductive".