Sentence examples for counterproductive of from inspiring English sources

"It would be counterproductive of us to be involved in a program where we would buy guns only to sell them back," Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Steve Martos said at the time.

There seemed a flicker of hope in 2003 when the Central Powers imposed a brutal nul points provision on Britain, but it has since become clear that was the most counterproductive of Carthaginian peaces.

Informants in IDIs and participants in group discussions mentioned a counterproductive effect of improvement of quality of services.

We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these counterproductive effects of non-evaluative feedback.

There are many parameters that affect duration, but not all of them are always relevant and some can even be counterproductive because of the possibility of overtraining.

The present study highlights possible counterproductive effects of the presence of sylleptic shoots along the trunks by reducing the light interception in subsequent years.

Arguing that heavy police ticketing of children is counterproductive, Manuel Criollo of the Labor Community Strategy Center said his group has met twice with LA Unified School Police Chief Steven Zipperman and Michelle King, a deputy district superintendent.

It centers on rejection: of globalization, of counterproductive military meddling, and of the post-Cold War cultural project.

"Its persistent and counterproductive lack of transparency has led to the release of necessary pieces of its public legal defense too little and too late".

Some crimes were perpetrated in "black sites" and elsewhere, in one of the most shameful and counterproductive strategies of the so-called "war on terror".

What's more, financial expenditures might not even be the most counterproductive effect of this recently developed school of thought.