Sentence examples for counterproductive efforts from inspiring English sources
Our public health efforts to prevent child obesity and associated health problems will be more successful if they provide environments that encourage vigorous activity rather than continuing to pursue biologically counterproductive efforts to restrict how much children eat.
A new mechanical analysis, however, suggests that such seemingly counterproductive efforts in fact enable the limb to fling the ball farther.
His spending projects repeatedly came into conflict with counterproductive efforts to balance the federal budget.
Airport screening would be an enormous and largely counterproductive effort.
One fear of all accounting firms is that a big legal verdict could be fatal, and that has led to what may be the counterproductive effort to legally insulate each national partnership — leaving each of them poorly capitalized and vulnerable.
At a time when technology businesses need certainty to innovate, this is not the time for the FCC to engage in a counterproductive effort to even further regulate the Internet".
Similar to other GH education programs, this pilot informed students about future choices for ethical and appropriate training and career options in GH [ 21], with the goal to avoid counterproductive GH efforts that cause more harm than good.
The kind of analysis that Mr Sumner is using here is just counterproductive to efforts to understand what is really driving disparities in economic performance.
"Attacks such as these are counterproductive to efforts to reduce the violence and restore calm, and we think that both sides need to remain focused on the need for substantive, ongoing security cooperation," Mr. Boucher said.
This lack of a validated measure hampers research in patient delay and is counterproductive to efforts directed at securing early diagnosis of cancer.
Failure to follow the patients' nutritional status during the admission, and ignorance of the patient's own observations about into his or her weight loss, are also counterproductive to efforts to improve the nutritional care.
