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Example sentences for: counterproductive

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Penalties create even more resentment, and are generally counterproductive.
Madison Avenue propaganda is counterproductive.
But saying it so baldly, and then repeating it, is counterproductive.
Policy-makers will be weaned from their current unhealthy addiction to ever-higher levels of intellectual property rights as the only instrument to raise R&D levels, a path that has increasingly reached diminishing returns or become counterproductive.
Exchanges with the President, between the President and Tenet, and between herself and Powell and Rumsfeld had produced a consensus that "tit-for-tat" responses were likely to be counterproductive.