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Franco Frattini, the foreign minister of Italy, which has the closest oil and economic ties with Libya of any European country, said Russia had argued that a no-flight zone would be ineffective and even counterproductive.

But these campaigns may be ineffective, and even sometimes counterproductive.

This divided management system is barely operational even under normal conditions, and can be expected to be ineffective and even counter-effective under emergencies.

And despite its high visibility, the program has been shown to be ineffective, and even counterproductive at times.

The war on drugs is already widely discredited after half a century of failing to evolve in light of scientific and public health evidence showing it to be ineffective and even counter-productive.

A second e-mail from the network to Kadeer's representative confirmed that the interview was canceled and went into a lengthier explanation: Direct confrontation, the network representative said, would be ineffective and even jeopardize the network's long-term relationships in China.

For others in the pro-union camp, fear-mongering is ineffective and even counter-productive because it just raises the hackles of Scots when it implies that they don't have it in them to be an independent nation.

Speakers at the conference said that while schools and teachers did have a role in safeguarding and protecting pupils from exposure to extremism, in practice Prevent was ineffective and even counter-productive.

In contrast, AA supplementation was ineffective and even promoted oxidation in raw meat from broilers fed unsaturated fat diets that had not been supplemented with α-TA.

A majority of people (63%) feel government efforts to fight corruption have been ineffective and even more of those interviewed (77%) feel the level of corruption has increased since 2007.

A large body of research has shown that torture is ineffective and even counterproductive.