Sentence examples similar to most counter productive from inspiring English sources

Sanctions are the most counter-productive tool known to diplomacy.

To date, one of the most counter-productive coalition cuts has been to the AimHigher programme, a dedicated activity with schools to encourage young people to consider higher education.

As a soldier in Helmand I was on the front line of this so-called war and of all the confused and contradictory missions we had in Afghanistan (and there were a few) counter-narcotics was the by far the most counter-productive and downright stupid.

But what's been the most counter-productive aspect of it?

Surely a massive list of the whereabouts of everyone currently playing Pokemon Go is the most counter-productive data imaginable.

John Oliver returned on Sunday after a brief hiatus with a detailed story about America's most counter-productive and antiquated marijuana laws. .

Promoting candidates of this caliber as the new face of the Republican Party is blatant hypocrisy: the GOP skewers the Democrats for identity politics, then indulges in the most counter-productive forms of it.

President of the UK Literacy Association David Reedy said the inclusion of non-words would be counter productive since most six-year-olds expect to make sense of what they read.

They are the most dangerously counter-productive policy imaginable, and all because "something must be done about Ukraine".

Its real purpose is to open the door for the most disastrously counter-productive government policy on cohesion imaginable: a massive increase in minority faith schools.

A hot-headed "boycott agenda" - either of the Games themselves or the all-important opening ceremony -- by American and European activists and politicians would be, to say the least, unfriendly and, most certainly, counter-productive.