Sentence examples for of being counterproductive from inspiring English sources

Antitobacco scaremongering is indeed at, or beyond, the point of being counterproductive.

"The current policy has a real risk of being counterproductive with alienation being fermented as a result," MCB assistant secretary general Miqdaad Versi told the Guardian.

Even allowing for the fact that Iraq and the "Allies" are at war, the extent to which the "Allies" and their media cohorts are prepared to go is astounding to the point of being counterproductive to their own objectives.

The precise timing is not yet decided, and the content will require careful calibration to avoid the risk of being counterproductive for the In cause, but her previous statements on the subject allow us to have a jolly good guess about what she will be minded to say.

Future standards will therefore have to consider the balance between the quality of reflection and its efficient and systematic application in practice, but not to the stage of being counterproductive.

The potential of music to energise and exhilarate a crowd is dangerous to dictatorships, the arousal of emotions being counterproductive to their will to suppress.

Arguing that heavy police ticketing of children is counterproductive, Manuel Criollo of the Labor Community Strategy Center said his group has met twice with LA Unified School Police Chief Steven Zipperman and Michelle King, a deputy district superintendent.

The demonization of selling is counterproductive to the end game of commerce and it's expensive.

Carney said Hamas claimed to have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart, but its use of violence was counterproductive to the Palestianian cause, the Associated Press reports.

In fact, I believe the policies of empire are counterproductive in our struggle against the forces of radical religious extremism.

Delaying the democratic transition in the name of stability is counterproductive and will only lead to more violent outbursts of this nature.