Sentence examples for counterproductive debate from inspiring English sources

Our leader has already said he sees no need to change the rules on the selection of parliamentary candidates, so he shut down that counterproductive debate by making it clear that the only talk of removing MPs that will be entertained is replacing Tories with Labour ones at the next general election.

To find a way out of this counterproductive debate requires new and complementary insights into the effects of different policy instruments.

With this decision the Supreme Court has put an end to the counterproductive debate pitting proponents of banning guns against champions of providing unlimited access to guns while 30,000 or more mostly urban Americans die every year from largely preventable gun violence.

But I see this counterproductive public debate as originating not from leakers but from the administration's failure to involve Congress from the beginning.

I have a very clear, long-held view on this: that "no platforming" unpopular views is counterproductive, discourages debate and the due dissection of error, and pushes views one would like to contest openly underground, where they may well flourish better than if exposed to the clear light of argument (which is one of the things that universities are for).

But in applying such principles either to support or criticise drones, we risk formulating a surreal and counterproductive argument, which indeed characterises much of the debate.

High taxes are counterproductive.

They are counterproductive.

Overregulation is counterproductive.

These policies are counterproductive.

Cold-shouldering Cold-shouldering Mr. Hakimtise.