Unfortunately, the plan backfired.

Today, however, it is more likely to prove disruptive to friend and foe alike, as well as damaging to those countries that indulge this temptation.

Energy embargoes have generally proven counterproductive.

If an element formula_10 is both a left inverse and a right inverse of formula_11, then formula_10 is called a two sided inverse, or simply an inverse, of formula_11.

Worse still, the war on terror was counterproductive.

Continued threats of ever higher tax burdens could prove dangerously counterproductive.

Skeptics who treat public diplomacy as a euphemism for broadcasting government propaganda miss the point.

Simple propaganda lacks credibility and thus is counterproductive.

Trying to erect an Iron Curtain around Russian funds and businesses will prove counterproductive.

Of course, dubious buybacks are not confined to the pharmaceutical industry.

This softer approach will prove counterproductive, as it will not strengthen democratic forces in Serbia.

Israel as a nation of victims is, in fact, contrary to its founders creed.

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

With historical perspective, lack of proper negotiations has been counterproductive in the North Korean case.

Indeed, as we have seen in some Andean countries, it can be counter productive.

For today s European leaders, the central lesson of 1989 is that force is counterproductive what matters is consensus.

However, that has now backfired, since the Sadrists are the only group other than Maliki s coalition of Shia parties that supports him.

Such an attempt to secularize the state might backfire, however, as the regime could become even more vulnerable to accusations that it is an American lackey.

However, that has now backfired, since the Sadrists are the only group other than Maliki s coalition of Shia parties that supports him.

This lack of foresight about and planning for the aftermath of armed intervention is not only dangerous to the people who have ostensibly been saved it is counterproductive.

These problems are due not to immigrants, but to our immigration controls, which are not only costly and cruel, but also ineffective and counterproductive.

Unlike Chirac, he understands that it is counterproductive and unrealistic to ask countries like Bulgaria or Romania to choose between their European or Atlantic loyalties.

Faraday's law states that the curl of an electric field is equal to the opposite of the time rate of change of the magnetic field, while Ampère's law relates the curl of the magnetic field to the current and rate of change of the electric field.

Insulting Muslims simply on the basis of their faith is foolish and counterproductive, as is the increasingly popular notion that we must make sweeping pronouncements as to the superiority of our culture.

The full extent of the French system s pathology becomes fully clear in the light of successive governments attempts at reform, with piecemeal measures the norm and thus proving counter productive on balance, or failing altogether.