Finger-pointing for underreporting when disease outbreaks occur is a counterproductive activity creating further barriers to any coherent surveillance exercise.
But Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said here on Thursday that Moscow considered any unilateral sanctions "counterproductive," and that it wanted instead to discuss how to eliminate the existing ones as part of the talks with Iran.
In the money markets, the odds on another cut in rates at the end of the month have lengthened and might, in any case, prove counterproductive by pushing up long-term rates.
A wiser person would put that in more eloquent terms, but the fact is, stereotypes, of any kind, are counterproductive.
Dave, according to Suzann, "was a marketing/advertising/IT professional--the first corporate division to fall in any economic downturn, counterproductive as that is".
Writing in The New York Times, Senator Coburn explained that the Norquist tax pledge, which opposes any tax increase for any reason, is ultimately counterproductive on Mr. Norquist's own terms.
This victory could do more to combat radicalisation than any number of government strategies – most of which are in any case unjust and counterproductive.
"This move is counterproductive for any détente".
Justice Thomas finds any assistance patronizing and counterproductive.
This is not only ugly, it is counterproductive, paralyzing any effort toward immigration reform.
