Sentence examples for counterproductive ways from inspiring English sources

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When systems are broken, workers respond in counterproductive ways.

Most understand too little about financial markets to make informed decisions, intervene too frequently in counterproductive ways and gather too little information about portfolio holdings to evaluate results.

We credit the sincerity of Mr. Blair's beliefs, but are troubled by the unworthy, and ultimately counterproductive, ways he used to advance them.

New technologies, as Adam Greenfield's tremendously intelligent and stylish book repeatedly emphasises, can change social habits in unforeseen and often counterproductive ways.

Conversely, individuals with lower EI tend to act out and behave in dysfunctional or counterproductive ways.

Europe is beholden to nongovernmental organizations in counterproductive ways, and over time, farmers in Western Europe will be worse off for it.

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That is an irresponsible, and counterproductive, way to try to close the state's $25 billion deficit.

Subsidies have been a counterproductive way to help the poor because they are more beneficial to the rich, who consume more energy, the fund said.

I thought some businesses intervened in a counterproductive way, which may leave them with problems with customers of a different outlook for years to come.

Other instruments have various side impacts and influence some external effects in the desired direction but others in a counterproductive way (e.g.: emission standards for NOx and PM and their impacts on CO2).

Admittedly, some of those individuals wish to sound humble, too, and might even be so; but saying IMO is a counterproductive way of conveying that impression, because we already assume that your opinion is only your opinion.

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