It's counterproductive for Wong to insist that it isn't enough for conservative women to merely support the principles of gender equality.
"The actions taken by the Australian government are counterproductive and unco-operative," Gusmao said.
To give him a label such as OCD or Tourette syndrome probably isn't helpful as it medicalises him, and that can be counterproductive – as his reaction to your trying to discuss his behaviour has proven.
Needlessly restricting the freedom of expert and caring health care workers is both morally wrong and counterproductive; it will do more to lose than to save lives".
Like a teacher with a student, she was often "pressing him to be more expansive and communicative," but found that "counterproductive".
Between this assessment, the two that follow, and the teenage girl who will remain in her bed and not be assessed at all because of how often she presents and because the assessments are now deemed counterproductive ("I've worked here 10 years, full-time," a beleaguered nurse tells me, "and I swear that young lady's here more than I am"), my question begins to answer itself.
Those who opposed Ritichie's decision, including a number of mainstream unionist politicians, argue that withdrawing public funding from projects that created jobs and gave a sense of communal responsibility was entire counterproductive, that in effect this merely drove the loyalists further back into their laager.
Peter Van Onselen also made the same point recently when he said that scrapping the Australia Network would be, "rash, reactionary and will ultimately be counterproductive to our national interests".
"It is entirely counterproductive to elevate the partisanship of this matter," Birmingham told the Australian newspaper.
But in a thinly veiled warning to the European Central Bank (ECB), which has hinted at the need for further cuts in wages in Spain, Portugal and Greece, it said "further downward adjustments in wages in the hardest-hit countries risk being counterproductive".
Quarantine restrictions imposed in the US on healthcare workers returning from saving lives in the Ebola epidemic in west Africa were morally wrong and counterproductive, according to Barack Obama's bioethics commission.
