Sentence examples for counterproductive direction from inspiring English sources

Bob Heffernan, executive director of Connecticut Green Industries, said, "For the past three years, the state's response to the invasive plants problem has drifted off in a counterproductive direction, sadly preoccupied with penalizing and targeting flower shops, greenhouses, garden centers, nurseries and landscapers, instead of investing its energies and resources in solutions that really work.

Other instruments have various side impacts and influence some external effects in the desired direction but others in a counterproductive way (e.g.: emission standards for NOx and PM and their impacts on CO2).

Of course, with support from the Gates Foundation, organizations like the Council of Chief State School Officers as well as state and federal institutions, it's easy to worry that political and financial interests could have a big (counterproductive) influence on inBloom's direction.

At a time when enthusiasm for a long-prohibited drug is at an all-time high, it seems counterproductive to go the other direction with another.

To avoid the danger of assessment pushing teaching and learning in undesirable directions that are counterproductive (Britton and Schneider, 2007), the instructor of record does not and will not have access to the assessment items.

In conclusion, controlling strategies for changing children's eating behaviour in a positive direction appear to be counterproductive.

Klimetzek's method is a rather pragmatic solution: The local criterion he employs to identify counterproductive cells is the deviation between the actual velocity direction and a desired direction computed as polygonal traces between inlet and outlet.

Until we move more decisively in this direction, other efforts are likely to be frustrating at best and counterproductive at worst.

"Tusk's advice would be not to go necessarily in the direction of treaty changes as at end of the day it could be counterproductive," said a senior EU official who will be involved in the negotiations.

The extended LDF is also capable of predicting the interesting phenomenon of the existence of two fluxes in opposite directions within the particle shortly after the step change (and hence the existence of a counterproductive region).

Quite counterproductive.