Sentence examples for counterproductive power from inspiring English sources

If the current political powers do not tread carefully, then even the freely elected government that Egyptians have been promised in 2012 could face a long and counterproductive power struggle with a military establishment that would have every reason to remain a state-within-a-state — autonomous and, in a depressingly familiar way, untouchable.

We're decades overdue in scrapping these counterproductive, discriminatory powers.

When the Soviet leaders decided to invade Afghanistan in 1979 they exemplified a counterproductive use of hard power and, by their disregard of subtle power, undermined the Soviet Union's long-term position.

Increasing reactor power is counterproductive to obtain well-shaped and homogeneous silver nanowires.

Reaction time (5 min) was found to be ideal for appropriate preferential growth; in these experiments, it was observed that an excessive reaction time and reactor power are counterproductive in Ag-NWs synthesis.

The Dignitarian Era Rankism is the residue of predation, and as we recognize that predatory uses of power are counterproductive, we'll put it aside, like the toy soldiers of childhood.

That might sound counterproductive, but there are times when full power at a single axle is a lot more helpful than driving only a single wheel.

The proposals would thus be ineffective if non-active mechanisms are responsible for anticompetitive results; and they would be counterproductive because they reduce shareholder power and incentives to induce portfolio companies to increase their value in the range of circumstances where doing so is not anticompetitive.

Stripping cities of that redevelopment power, then, would be counterproductive, officials have argued.

Seizing power like this is counterproductive and will lead to a lot of problems for the military.

That is a genuine concern and can prompt clumsy, often counterproductive, responses from local and western powers.