Sentence examples for counterproductive turn from inspiring English sources

What explains the premature and counterproductive turn toward fiscal austerity despite the high unemployment rate and the large gap between actual and potential output?

Jos Dignette, a spokesman for the ACOD rail union, said that what had begun as an "understandable emotional reaction" by drivers to Monday's accident had taken a counterproductive turn.

But it's not so, and eventually this method will turn counterproductive.

The IRA's bombs eventually helped to push British governments into talks on political compromise.But history suggests that, for most protest movements, violence is counterproductive: those that turn the other cheek, opting for civil disobedience, sit-ins and strikes rather than armed retaliation, tend to do best.

If not appropriately acted upon, they highlight how counterproductive this could turn out by reducing the HIV test uptake rates and consequently decreasing the chances for preventing the transmission of HIV from the mother to the child.

And that's when it turns counterproductive.

And there is a broader sense, as we see in the fierce, gridlocking partisanship today, in which slavish adherence to party doctrine turns counterproductive.

It seems that when most of the world went hungry and whole populations were decimated by famine, natural selection produced adaptations which then proved counterproductive when famine turned to feast.

And where would Americans be without April 15? Sometimes, though, an iron deadline turns counterproductive, as when labor negotiators have finally broken the logjam but have not quite tied up all the loose ends by midnight.

"Most found it counterproductive — it tends to turn whatever the disturbance is into a free-form riot," he said.

But drinking coffee shortly after waking up, as it turns out, is actually a bit counterproductive.