Sentence examples for counterproductive than from inspiring English sources

Each successive brainstorm was more counterproductive than the one before.

"I think that could be more counterproductive than productive".

Drug policies here are more punitive and counterproductive than in other democracies, and have brought about an explosion in prison populations.

But seldom was Kaine's display of cheerful pedantry more counterproductive than when he sabotaged Quijano's effort to corner Pence on the contradictions and the blindness in his position on race and law enforcement.

Few things are more counterproductive than limiting recess and other types of physical play time for children.

After the events of Boston, nothing could be more counterproductive than stigmatizing the American Muslim community, which is as horrified as any other by the attacks and could be a huge asset in preventing new ones.

The Appeal Board described the book as "one-sided" in its attack on whites and the South African Government, and concluded, "As a result... the effect of the book will be counterproductive rather than subversive".

As we talk about fighting the status quo, there is no greater example of an inexplicable, counterproductive anachronism than taking youths out of an educational setting for 2-3 months every summer.

I cannot think of a more deficient, dangerous and counterproductive branding strategy than to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell consumers that they should not have the right to know what I am feeding them.

Progress is going to come about not only through policies that understand the complexity of health and work, and the need for more funding rather than counterproductive cuts, but by unpicking the culture that says it's not the structure that's locking disabled people out of work but the individual: lazy, workshy, awkward.

Discussion of LGBT identity as a matter of an individual's "private life" is not only utterly useless but counterproductive and more than a little infuriating.