Sentence examples for counterproductive response from inspiring English sources

"One or two frustrating remarks can produce an entirely counterproductive response.

Their book recounts colonial America's struggle to rectify the first dangerous real estate bubble and the British government's counterproductive response.

Jonathan A. Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, sain in a statement that "demonizing all Muslims is a misguided and counterproductive response" that hearkens back to the internment of nearly 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

It is not a surrender to big government to recognize that cutting the top tax rate was a better idea in Reagan's era than in ours, or that making the tax code more regressive is a counterproductive response to recent trends in working class life, or that some federal programs are better targets for spending cuts and caps than others.

In the face of a snowballing humanitarian crisis, European politicians came in for heavy criticism over their sluggish and often counterproductive response to the situation, as several countries resisted calls to open their doors and thousands of migrants were left stranded and sleeping rough at borders.

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

But instead of over-the-top responses by weak leaders, such as George W. Bush or Francois Hollande, we need strong and effective leaders to withstand the pressure for excessive and thus counterproductive responses -- exactly what the terrorists want.

It is the danger "of provoking ill-judged, extravagant and counterproductive state responses".

It is the more real danger "of provoking ill-judged, extravagant and counterproductive state responses".

The public, fully imbued with militarism, also seems to buy into counterproductive military responses to the problem.

We conclude with some generalizations about how biology and physics look at the world differently that help us navigate the minefield of counterproductive stereotypical responses.