He woke up this morning, he said, to relentless -- and to his mind counterproductive -- reports of the women and children shot by panicked American forces at a military checkpoint near Karbala.
2.06pm GMT International criminal court Russia's foreign ministry has said that the effort by 57 countries to refer Syria to the international criminal court (see earlier) is "ill-timed and counterproductive", Reuters reports.
As bizarre as it sounds, using facts to correct misconceptions about whether getting a vaccine can give you the flu can be counterproductive, The Washington Post reports.
"If the measures adopted by the 14 member states are maintained, the effect will be counterproductive," the report said.
But doing so could be counterproductive, the report maintains.
Those he's talked to tend to disagree, saying that their best arguement being that if one's personal philosophies are reduced to a single word, like "Democrat", it is counterproductive to reporting.
But Muslims and Jews in New York consider the ads racist and counterproductive, WPIX reported.
The government's Prevent strategy aimed at combating homegrown terrorism is stifling freedom of expression within the classroom and risks being counterproductive, a human rights report warns.
Israel's Foreign Ministry quickly dismissed the report as "counterproductive and unfortunate" and said it provided a reminder of the Human Rights Council's "systematically one-sided and biased approach towards Israel".
With the Soviet Union muscling in on Eastern Europe, "settling scores with Germans or German collaborators seemed less pressing; in some cases, it even appeared counterproductive," said a government report published Friday by the National Archives.
Managers can intervene when one of their direct reports is being counterproductive in an ESSP, and often the simple awareness that "the boss" is observing behavior and watching contributions leads to changed behavior.
