Sentence examples for counterproductive you from inspiring English sources

"But once it becomes tedious or counterproductive, you put it aside".

Yet however counterproductive you may expect a heightened bombing campaign to prove, you can at least understand the political pressures that compel them to say and do foolish things in times such as these.

"We understand that right now, that is something that seems counterproductive to you, sanction a country from which you get so much of the natural resources your growing economy needs," Mrs. Clinton said, referring to the Chinese, in comments after a speech on European security.

Each passage is fine in and of itself, but the cumulative effect is counterproductive: all you get is a mere outline of the story you aren't being told when Souvenir is best at offering up Moukarzel's story of reading the books and how they seeped into his life.

If you are incapable of seeing your weaknesses  — and particularly the things you do that are hard for your co-leaders, even if they aren't categorically counterproductive — then you will end up in a prideful, defensive, unhelpful stance.

"That is the most counterproductive thing you can do".

"I guess it can also be counterproductive if you don't do well.

No matter your profession, the truth is that working longer hours can be counterproductive because you start putting out lower-quality work as time goes on.

To appreciate the value of such a seemingly counterproductive measure, you need to know something about connective tissue and how the body normally repairs it.

I suspect that he is also correct to assert that the "win-win-win-win-win" formulation of recent years is counterproductive: if you insist that climate policy would be a wonderful thing even if climate change weren't real, people are going to suspect your motives for claiming to believe climate science.

"There's a point at which it's counterproductive because you're shooting in the dark".