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.

This is counterproductive.

This time, however, the plan backfired.

Fortunately, there are visible and encouraging results.

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

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

Timidity is counterproductive, because it backfires.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

Here is the thing, right, it cannot just come from one source.

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.

The Advisory Committee should adhere to its responsibilities and refrain from making politically oriented recommendations which could jeopardize the outcome of intergovernmental debate.

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.

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.

It s reverse racism against whites.

This is false and it could backfire.

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.

How on earth can someone pick up a stone and throw it at a woman half buried in the ground? How can you live with yourself after doing that?

In some cases, show elections can backfire against the party in power, especially if the regime believe they are popular enough to win without coercion or fraud.

At the same time, history has shown that the development of science and technology, if not properly guided, can itself bring disaster to human beings.

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.

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.

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.

The results of a general meeting should be communicated to all shareholders as soon as possible.

Any guidance by the Security Council should take into consideration that direct access to illegal armed groups can be counterproductive to efforts to protect civilians in armed conflicts and can even jeopardize peace and stability.

FDI typically comes as a bundle of tangible and intangible assets that can make a contribution to development as well.

In Brazil, ERAs can be conducted only by the reverse auctioneers who are employees of a procuring entity, accredited after special training.

As a result, the entire discussion could easily backfire.

I told him to come.

I hope that John will come.

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.

The findings of the assessments are summarized below.

The young man should be made first.