Sentence examples for face counterproductive from inspiring English sources

Like the internal affairs divisions of many local law enforcement agencies, these federal units face counterproductive pressure from agency leaders, are not seen as a place for officers to build a career and have few incentives to aggressively investigate misconduct.

He said: "While it's right that the police have the power to tackle genuine criminals, covering a complex issue with a wide-ranging PSPO could lead to people in dire need of support facing a counterproductive arrest or fine.

Dr. Denholm also suggested that always "putting on a happy face" can be counterproductive.

If the current political powers do not tread carefully, then even the freely elected government that Egyptians have been promised in 2012 could face a long and counterproductive power struggle with a military establishment that would have every reason to remain a state-within-a-state — autonomous and, in a depressingly familiar way, untouchable.

In addition to the stigma of having a criminal record, people trying to find work upon their release from prison are faced with strict and counterproductive legal restrictions on the types of jobs they can have.

Important People somehow still manage to pretend, with straight faces, that the prohibitively counterproductive modern-day Prohibition called the War On Drugs is not evil, insane, futile, and doomed.

Abortion rights activists maintain these graphic, in-your-face tactics are actually counterproductive.

And yet giving notice of a possible attack in advance in the media would, on the face of it, seem both counterproductive and an invitation to the very barrage of criticisms leveled by key officials at Snowden.

Although this complex arrangement seems counterproductive in the face of neurodegenerative diseases (because this seems to impede a constitutive activation of a presumably protective HSR), it raises the hope that there might be a way to manipulate this system, once we have a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of all pathways involved.

He overdid his weight-lifting program in building up his upper body, he surrounded himself with an entourage and he adopted a counterproductive attitude in the face of adversity.

Mayor-elect Michael R. Bloomberg has ruled out raising taxes, which he argues would be counterproductive, and the city faces a budget gap of at least $4 billion in the fiscal year that starts July 1.