1 Sending young offenders to prison can be counterproductive.

2 Increases in taxation would be counterproductive.

3 Improved safety measures in cars can be counterproductive as they encourage people to drive faster.

4 Such clock-punching may in fact be counterproductive.

5 It would be counterproductive to do otherwise.

6 Being too available can be counterproductive.

7 Moreover, strike action could be counterproductive.

8 Putting very young offenders in prison can be counterproductive.

9 More frequent change would have produced a counterproductive restlessness.

10 A confrontation is really going to be counterproductive for everyone.

11 But the counterproductive nature of this policy gesture can not escape attention.

12 It is counterproductive to be derogatory about hairstyle, clothing, or current countercultural heroes.

13 Although such inhibition might seem counterproductive, it is actually crucial. Normal brain function depends on both excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters.

14 This is a false and counterproductive approach; it is to true open-mindedness what glib moral relativism is to genuine tolerance.

15 When I suggested that oversized shirts were therefore counterproductive,() he shut me up with a reminder of my previous bad taste.

16 Constant correction by a teacher is often counterproductive, as the student may become afraid to speak at all.

17 Counterpoints may therefore be counterproductive, especially if they are obscure.

18 We think an attempt to bully them into submission would be counterproductive.

19 For such creatures, speed is not important - indeed it is counterproductive.

20 Thus replication begets replication, until the costs of these counterproductive activities finally bring the organization to a long-delayed breaking point.

21 Moreover, any attempt to pin down precisely the behavior of 200 these tiny things turns out strangely counterproductive.

22 But seldom do these companies follow up on the true costs of counterproductive policies and decisions.

23 But hypersensitivity about colour or religious affiliation can be counterproductive.

24 But screaming in a corporation, even in a corporation as Neanderthalish as Salomon, was counterproductive.

25 Worse yet, it may resort to additional expedient action to disguise or defuse the consequences of previous counterproductive actions.

26 Furthermore, the way the Soviet authorities went about indoctrinating the people in atheist dogma was counterproductive.

27 Standard economic theory would dismiss the effort as naive and counterproductive.

28 Minimizing is the first technique a self-defeating organization uses to avoid responsibility for the costs of its counterproductive actions.

29 The general use of disapproval in order to keep people on their toes tends to be counterproductive after a time.

30 Cutting back on medical services to the poor is counterproductive.

31 Longer term consequences of this trend could include an increased counterproductive emphasis on first author publication.

32 The first section focuses on changing counterproductive patterns of communication between parents and children, thus strengthening family relationships.

33 Is it not true that giving 17-year-olds fines does not work and sending them to prison is counterproductive?

34 And worse yet: all the rushing around is counterproductive.

35 The arguments at this point will be counterproductive.

36 Attempting to improve power while fatigued is counterproductive.

37 Office politics is often counterproductive.

38 But the tone is amateurish and counterproductive.

39 Study sessions that are too long are generally inefficient and counterproductive.

40 Our kids need to know that dieting is counterproductive, damaging and risky.

41 Much regulation fails that test and is often costly and counterproductive.

42 Another question is whether declining the gift would be hurtful or counterproductive to a patient's treatment.

43 These are words—intemperate, undiplomatic, and very likely counterproductive—that you cannot imagine being uttered by her predecessor Henry Kissinger.

44 Since in a cluster all nodes must be identical they will all run the same services and hence it would be counterproductive to re-route the request again.

45 Counterproductive, however, forcibly imposed Rui even death, the family into chaos.

46 My conclusion is that a well - meaning environmentalist will make counterproductive decisions several times a day.

47 Partisan politics is often an obstruction to good government . Office politics are often debilitating and counterproductive.

48 It may seem counterproductive to those of you trying to lose weight to eat before a work-out.

49 But Mr Geithner warned that such an approach would ultimately be " counterproductive "

50 It is obviously counterproductive to treat workers like idiots to protect against those few who are.

51 Euro land is sputtering because its anti-Keynesian fiscal and monetary stance is uncalled for and counterproductive.

52 The problem with the anti-littering campaign then is that its descriptive norm is counterproductive to its injunctive norm.

53 Sometimes what worked in our previous environment is counterproductive in the.

54 Their conclusion, contrary to the theoretic argument,(http:///counterproductive.html) is that secret reserve prices are counterproductive.

55 For most cases of salmonellosis, antibiotic treatment is counterproductive, as it actually prolongs disease by further inhibiting the growth of beneficial bacteria.

56 Plagiarism and false reporting are counterproductive to a free press.

57 It'seems counterproductive to reduce this to skill sets and the mechanics of cognition.

58 But to not practice, to not get an injury counterproductive.

59 But while it is possible to sympathise with the Russian predicament, the ban is counterproductive.

60 It's amazing how often I hear otherwise brilliant leaders make counterproductive, stereotypical comments about themselves.

61 It has been so ham-handed and counterproductive that it suggests a disjointed policy process rather than any coherent strategy by the standing committee of the Politburo.

62 If they are, then perhaps page views are a counterproductive metric.

63 These hardline measures proved counterproductive, as they simply increased opposition to the government.

64 The opposition Socialist Party opposes the burqa but frets that outlawing it may be counterproductive.

65 There are so many more politically useful death-penalty victims. Wasting a lot of time on Zheng would be counterproductive.

66 The strike came at a time when the national economy was recovering from the second World War, and president Truman saw the UMWA's actions as counterproductive to national industrial recovery.