Sentence examples for counterproductive one from inspiring English sources

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one.

Any such endorsement among the hacks is, by definition, counterproductive; one can never emphasise that too much.

I agree with Richard V. Allen that the Bush administration has a North Korea policy, but it is a misguided and counterproductive one.

Those are in Mr. Trump's proposed deals, along with useful changes (more U.S. access to Canada's protected dairy market) and possibly counterproductive ones (stricter rules on NAFTA-origin inputs for auto manufacturers and, for Mexico, a $16-an-hour 16-an-hour 16-an-hourain auto workers).

New and useful emotions, thoughts and memories emerge, and old and counterproductive ones are resolved.

Beyond that, it is also counterproductive: no one can figure out identity without going through puberty.

"Draconian, careless and counterproductive," said one House lawmaker — not a Democrat, but Kentucky Republican Hal Rogers, former Appropriations Committee chairman.

"Clearly, such scheduling is counterproductive to one of the basic foundation purposes of the whole program -- reducing litigation costs," the association's report said.

Although I'm a great fan of nonstick cookware, here it would be counterproductive, since one of the great joys of a paella is the crust of rice that forms on the bottom.

But even metaphors of trauma as contagion feel inadequate, or even potentially counterproductive; for one thing, they can get mixed up with questions of shame and stigma, seeming to assign blame or stir up anxieties about contamination where the antidote to both is needed.

Fisher, who has long maintained that low interest rates can be counterproductive, was one of the dissenters to the central bank's statement.