Sentence examples for almost counterproductive from inspiring English sources

In fencing, they were almost counterproductive.

Indeed, the rats are almost counterproductive among natives, who barely bother to look up and notice anymore, as with panhandlers and police sirens and smiling people who want you to stop in the middle of the sidewalk and sign something.

"The reality is that the methods used on-site are almost entirely counterproductive to this.

AIPAC's efforts to exploit Herzog's opposition to the deal were almost as counterproductive, given that the deal has the support of Israeli Army and intelligence leaders.

Kevin Casas-Zamora, who served as a minister of economic policy and second vice president of Costa Rica until 2007, said that overt political action by a United States-affiliated business group was almost always counterproductive.

The culture at the site of the east-west rail link is "almost entirely counterproductive" to delivering the project safely, on time and on budget, according to a damning internal analysis seen by the Observer.

But in a world where insurgents and militias deploy invisibly among civilian populations, overwhelming force is almost always counterproductive: it alienates precisely those people who have to make a break with the hardcore fighters and deny them the ability to operate freely.

Even gathering the information required to make an informed decision is almost certainly counterproductive.

However, unilateral military action is illegal, unconstitutional, and almost certainly counterproductive.

Therapeutic enthusiasm in the early stages is almost always counterproductive [ 11].

This has almost always proved counterproductive.