Sentence examples for counterproductive step from inspiring English sources
The most dangerous and counterproductive step would be for the United States Congress to drastically cut financing for Pakistan's military.
All 14 of the other Council envoys condemned the action as an illegal, or at best unnecessary and counterproductive, step likely to lead to an escalation of violence in the region.
Any effort at federal legislation now to mandate state and local law enforcement's compliance with ICE detainers will, in our view, be a highly counterproductive step and lead to more resistance and less cooperation in our overall efforts to promote public safety.
But on Friday, ICE Director Sarah Saldaña walked back the remarks to be sure there was "no confusion," saying, "Any effort at federal legislation now to mandate state and local law enforcement's compliance with ICE detainers will, in our view, be a highly counterproductive step and lead to more resistance and less cooperation in our overall efforts to promote public safety".
"We've still got a situation where they plan to close every single ticket office, which is mad – a really backward step and counterproductive".
Instead of jumping into another unnecessary and counterproductive war, Washington should step back, temper its ambitions, and place responsibility on regional players with more at stake in the conflicts and greater ability to solve the problems.
"Therefore, the continued military occupation of the area by both India and Pakistan is counterproductive and is a retrograde step for pursuing a genuine rapprochement process".
Meanwhile, DeSean Jackson's self-promoting behavior has become so erratic and counterproductive that he is one step from renaming the rest of his season the Torpedo of Touchdowns Tour.
But Japanese officials were too conservative and too protective of failing banks, he said, and thus prone to policy steps that were counterproductive, like the decision in 1997 to raise Japan's sales tax to 5percentt, from 3percentt.
Interestingly, the next step to 9 was counterproductive, despite the increase in negative charge.
In a statement after the vote, the Russian envoy, Grigory V. Berdennikov, said Moscow believed that direct talks between Washington and North Korea should have preceded the decision to send the report to the Security Council, a step he called "untimely and counterproductive".
