But his tactic could easily backfire.

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

Waiting and hoping for more favorable conditions could easily backfire.

This is counterproductive.

This time, however, the plan backfired.

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

Fortunately, there are visible and encouraging results.

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

Timidity is counterproductive, because it backfires.

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.

Assistance, support and capacity building targeted at women are likely to make for enduring results.

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

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

These results are very pleasing and demonstrate that Australia's ongoing commitment to gender equality is yielding tangible results.

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?

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

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.

It s reverse racism against whites.

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.

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.

If he had been able to visit Iraq, he would have reported on the outcome of his mission, and made his observations, in an addendum.

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

This is a strategy that risks backfiring, because it misunderstands the dynamics of international politics.

That position is flawed and counterproductive.

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.

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.

Again, help can come in any number of ways.

In addition, a limited sampling strategy risks missing relevant information and may even be counter productive.

As a result, the entire discussion could easily backfire.

Women seeking prenatal care in India, for example, have been subject to mandatory testing and the results were made known to their friends and families.

But the strategy of embracing poor friendly policies that deliver little real relief could backfire.

This is false and it could backfire.

The findings of the assessments are summarized below.

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.

Recent observations of the bright optical counterpart of GRB 080319B, whose light curve was correlated with the gamma ray light curve, has suggested that inverse Compton may be the dominant process in some events.

As a result, their rankings of different countries economies can vary widely.

For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women for the vintage shall fail. The harvest won't come.

Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

Here, one may wonder why a country such as Belgium would support the creation of new permanent seats.