Sentence examples for counterproductive here from inspiring English sources

US support for such operations clearly contradicts the administration's message that drug policy should be treated as a public health issue, as well as President Obama's own admission that criminal justice approaches have been counterproductive here.

Opacity, a defining feature of China's business landscape, is fundamentally counterproductive here.

"If it is done with foreign intervention, it's counterproductive -- people here can have a radical reaction.

Between this assessment, the two that follow, and the teenage girl who will remain in her bed and not be assessed at all because of how often she presents and because the assessments are now deemed counterproductive ("I've worked here 10 years, full-time," a beleaguered nurse tells me, "and I swear that young lady's here more than I am"), my question begins to answer itself.

While this might seem counterproductive, stay with me here.

"I am doing good work and I have no time for anything else, so it's a bit counterproductive to trap me here, because what else can I do but work?" Assange says that the embassy staff members have become like family and that he often has meals with them.

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.

Some politicians and analysts complained that "liquidations," as they are called here, have been counterproductive despite army claims of their deterrent value.

"But here it could be counterproductive because it could undermine an entire commercial corridor".

"It's really up to the owner, but we don't scold anyone here, because that is counterproductive".

Drug policies here are more punitive and counterproductive than in other democracies, and have brought about an explosion in prison populations.