This is counterproductive.

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

This time, however, the plan backfired.

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

But his tactic could easily backfire.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

In the news, the subject of where our future water is going to come from and where our power is going to come from is in all the papers all the time.

Yes, she'll probably come home.

It viewed such statements as counterproductive, unhelpful and as ones that would predetermine the outcome of the permanent status talks.

The paper went on to warn that, In their own hearts, we are afraid that Chu and Locke put their priorities in exactly the opposite order.

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

In a number of cases, it has been shown that asking the population to be involved in the solution of a pressing problem from the beginning and making it part of the solution has brought about impressive results.

We didn't tell them that the city police were going to come and do realistic arrests.

It is in rebuilding Gaza that the stakes of the competition will increase.

It s reverse racism against whites.

I wish to mention in that regard significant initiatives among States members of the Economic Community of West African States, which are already yielding positive results.

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.

But there is no similar agreement on where the money will come from.

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.

That position is flawed and counterproductive.

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.

In the same way, the moment will soon come when the French want to do as well as Germany.

Iran should be dragged into the wars in Iraq and Iraq shouldn't be left or else the wars will come to the Gulf countries.

Any move to adopt the draft protocol before such issues had been addressed would be counterproductive.

He questioned how the use of the same mechanism by the new Council would produce different results from the politicization and double standards of the past.

Since 95 of them will test positive, there will be, on average, 475 positive tests.

These developments will come anyway, and, once they do, the United States will become a mere bystander.

Thus, the policy response will be too little, and will come too late, to prevent it.

Other substantial developments are certain to follow and Turkey stands to gain from them.

As a result, the entire discussion could easily backfire.

The costs would also come much sooner than the benefits and persist much longer.

This is false and it could backfire.

The findings of the assessments are summarized below.

To many observers in Russia, however, the regime s post electoral offensive against unfriendly forces seems certain to be counterproductive in the longer term.