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• Improved safety measures in cars can be counterproductive as they encourage people to drive faster.
• Extremists will forever be able to demagogue conditions of misery, making continued U.S. involvement in asymmetric warfare an increasingly counterproductive exercise — because killing one terrorist creates five more in his place. Facebook Says…
• The timing of the book seems counterproductive. Times, Sunday Times
• The vast majority of canned beers in the U.S. are of the American Light Lager variety, for which a beer widget would be counterproductive.
• The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime. The Mural II
• On the contrary, to disinvite the president would be counterproductive. Times, Sunday Times
• A confrontation is really going to be counterproductive for everyone.
• Sometimes policy makers, including those who piously invoke the idea of "data-driven" practice, pursue initiatives they favor regardless of the fact that no empirical support for them exists (e.g., high-stakes testing) or even when the research suggests the policy in question is counterproductive (e.g., forcing struggling students to repeat a grade). Do tests really help students learn -- or was a new study misreported? -- Kohn
• I was talking to Huffpo's Paul Abrams about McCain's recent random, counterproductive "blurt" about not wanting to talk to friend Spain and not talking to our enemies. Karen Russell: It's McCain's Debate To Lose
• Below, she talks about getting her confidence back, how Kara DioGuardi offended her, Nick's lechery and why she thinks the warzone vibe of the show is counterproductive. Platinum Hit's Amber Ojeda: I Have a Personality, I Swear to God