Sentence examples for it proved counterproductive from inspiring English sources

But, once in office, it proved counterproductive". Sixsmith also became the "reality consultant" on The Thick of It, Armando Iannucci's Bafta-award winning sitcom about a government ineptly trying to monster the media.

The firm said it opted not to sound the alarm at every junction as it would have proved counterproductive, but said that it planned to add to the initial 100 locations in London as well as expanding to other cities.

Even at a time when millions of Americans were learning how to accumulate anonymous Facebook friends by the thousands, this gambit proved counterproductive, though it did create jobs for the enterprise that peddled "John McCain Is Not My Friend" T-shirts and hoodies.

Attempts by the regimes to cut off their populations from the rest of the world by shutting down telephone and internet services proved counterproductive as it only made blatant the fact that rulers were attempting to cover up their people's outrage and widely confirmed the regime's lack of responsibility towards its own people.

Presenting the issue of civic integration in such terms has proved counterproductive, not least because it has detracted from the real problems confronting these populations: unemployment, racial discrimination and educational underachievement.

Therefore, the road show proved counterproductive because detractors spun it as an example of overselling, or hyping the stock.

It need hardly be added that his intervention may have proved counterproductive in that Goldman Sachs's reputation in recent years has taken as much of a shellacking in Britain as in the United States.

In at least one case, its dual role as a content owner and device-maker actually proved counterproductive.

But this has proved counterproductive.

Too much austerity has proved counterproductive.

So harsh a measure proved counterproductive.