Sentence examples for proves counter from inspiring English sources

There's always one game at E3 that proves, counter to the general theme of the show, bigger isn't always better.

Unlike Millbank, they have a perfect right to be partial if that is what their members want, but they too may find that involvement proves counter-productive.

At other times, your emotional investment in the characters actually proves counter-productive – for example, when you can choose between multiple courses of action, yet all are complete anathema to what you would do if you were him or her.

"The Austerians have won the argument in the eurozone, at least for the time being," says Tilford. "As their medicine proves counter-productive in Spain and Italy as it has in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, opposition will mount, of course, but the risk is that much more damage will have been done by then".

His intervention could prove counter productive, drawing attention, as it did, to the sheer extent of GCHQ and the NSA's ability secretly to monitor personal communications.

It has clamped down on the free practice of religion throughout Xinjiang and severely impeded Uighur rights, a policy which is likely to prove counter productive.

Butler thought intervention would prove counter-productive.

Indeed it could prove counter-productive.

Indeed he argues that exhortation can prove counter-productive.

But ever-tighter controls prove counter-productive, Ranstorp warned.

Yet a drift in this direction could prove counter-productive.