Sentence examples for counterproductive attempt from inspiring English sources

These included nearly four years as Jimmy Carter's secretary of state -- a job from which he resigned to protest what he regarded as a foolhardy and diplomatically counterproductive attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran.

Yet economic debate is dominated by counterproductive attempts to reduce the deficit through cuts in public spending, which are now the single most important cause of the depression.

Buy or rent all the tools you need – it's counterproductive to attempt a major project with second-rate equipment.

Diplomats warned No 10 than taking tough action against the organisation – or even using ill-judged language about it – could be counterproductive to attempts to support the Brotherhood as a palatable alternative to more radical groups.

This means that a restrictive CD4 threshold for treatment initiation will also be counterproductive in attempting to allocate resources fairly; "doing less with more" in this area also implies depriving others of needed interventions towards which these resources could otherwise have been channelled.

MOH constitutes a plus of CM and it is hard to think about its appearance not being related to CM itself, unless patients attempt counterproductive stoicism.

This chapter also explains how to avoid counterproductive results when attempting to optimize the process.

What we find counterproductive is bullying, attempts at silencing us, inflammatory rhetoric that actually shuts down discussion".

But the attempt was counterproductive: it initiated an anticommunist cross-party consensus among democratic parliamentarians in Bonn.

America's tax code is counterproductive and a failed attempt at social engineering.

This policy will sometimes lead us not to do the act with the best individual outcome, but given our general propensity to error its consequences will be better in the long run than trying to assess acts one by one; however well-meaning, the latter attempt will be counterproductive.