This is counterproductive.

This time, however, the plan backfired.

But his tactic could easily backfire.

Waiting and hoping for more favorable conditions could easily backfire.

A blanket ban on all types of anti personnel landmines might therefore be counter productive.

Austerity policies in Europe threaten to backfire, causing enduring harm to growth prospects and thus stoking unemployment and budget deficits.

Indeed, the last humanitarian intervention has clearly backfired, turning Libya into a breeding ground for transnational militants.

Increasing taxes is not only unpopular it can be counter productive, given already high taxation in many countries.

The conspiracy, known as the Rye House Plot, backfired upon its conspirators and provoked a wave of sympathy for the King and James.

That position is flawed and counterproductive.

Developing successful strategies will require abandoning long held assumptions that worked in the past, but that have become counterproductive myths today.

It seems, however, that the Turkish government's plan to censor dissent has backfired, as tweets coming out from Turkey are on the rise.

These could be justified during the recession of 2008 2009, but now they have become counter productive, because they undermine the markets controlling function.

Fortunately, there are visible and encouraging results.

Mr. Yáñez Barnuevo (Spain), emphasizing that his delegation understood the reasoning of the members of the GUAM group, said that it had nevertheless abstained in the vote because it was concerned that adding to the General Assembly agenda matters already under consideration in other forums would prove counterproductive.

Narrow national mindsets are counterproductive. Legal institutions, law enforcement and intelligence agencies must cooperate and exchange pertinent information across national boundaries.

It s reverse racism against whites.

The US lost its ability to play a more constructive role in the region following its ill fated intervention in Iraq, while the Bush administration s neo conservative freedom agenda for the Arab world also backfired.

Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for practical wisdom as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.

Sometimes her efforts were heavy handed, as when she embraced AIDS victims physically as a metaphor for social inclusion sometimes they backfired, as when her shared intimacies with servants provided fodder for a flood of posthumous tell all books.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists.

Rather than owning up to the economic slowdown that current account deficits signal accepting a little less growth today for more sustainable growth in the future politicians and policymakers opt for risky growth gambits that ultimately backfire.

While this might sound like an excerpt from a Monty Python sketch, it raises an important issue should there be limits as to what prospective citizens are tested for? Can testing become counter productive?

To a limited extent, the same applies to the EU bailouts and ECB interventions. These could be justified during the recession of 2008 2009, but now they have become counter productive, because they undermine the markets controlling function.

The Council will have to be aware of the results of that meeting and of President Mbeki's analysis of those results.

As a result, the entire discussion could easily backfire.

While positive results of analysis may provide strong forensic evidence and proof, negative samples may easily lead to wrong conclusions and be exploited by the inspected side.

This is false and it could backfire.

The findings of the assessments are summarized below.

For this to be achieved, it is imperative that the negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda be concluded on time with substantial outcomes that promote development.

The continued unwillingness of the Kosovo Serbs to do that is worrying, counterproductive for themselves and unhelpful for the process.

There is an inverse relationship between the size of the object and the frequency of such events.

3. Also welcomes the outcome of the fifth session of the Conference of the Parties

Celebrations of Election Results in Tehran taken by Instagram user roozbehonline

Any violations of human rights were counterproductive.

Recalling the results of the Parliamentary and Presidential elections in Sierra Leone

While this may be useful in some situations, the general application of this in all situations, would, in our view, be counter productive.

Yet when the actual budget proposals are made, there will be a growing backlash.

Above all, I seek results.

Upon being instructed by the Executive Board to issue CERs for a CDM project activity, the CDM registry administrator, working under the authority of the Executive Board, shall, promptly, issue the specified quantity of CERs into the pending account of the Executive Board in the CDM registry, in accordance with appendix D below.

However, even extensive sampling and analysis could have produced limited results due to the technical limitations of analytical methods available at that time.

Currently, however, it is downright counter productive.

There are no 'adverse effects' that we know of from which the WHO should feel obliged to protect us.

In addition, the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) meets periodically with various financial intermediaries for feedback purposes and provides courses and seminars to entities that request them.

Timidity is counterproductive, because it backfires.