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This has created counterproductive incentives.

"While I believe the department's efforts to reach out to the Muslim communities were well intentioned, the mapping proposal has created a level of fear and apprehension that made it counterproductive," Mr. Villaraigosa said.

"Attacking an institution like Self Help Graphics that has created so many artists and given so much voice to the community is simply wrongheaded and counterproductive," he said in a statement.

Finally, the UN system of creating numerous development agencies charged with separate functional responsibilities has been criticized as creating counterproductive sectional divides.

Such intense competition also creates counterproductive tension in training programs and in the workplace.

The trial might even have been counterproductive – creating sympathy for a frail old man, making a martyr of him and causing an antisemitic backlash.

We should take into account that the currently used way of presenting and reporting about mainly individual cases of violence might have counterproductive effects (creating a sense of helplessness, i.e. that nothing can be done).

But this has proved counterproductive.

Too much austerity has proved counterproductive.

The shrill and demagogic attack on same-sex marriage from some Catholic bishops has been counterproductive.

Some have raised questions about whether Israel's reaction has been counterproductive.