Dark clouds are hanging low.

There is a clock on the wall.

Clouds hang in the air.

These are some signs that we have all over the place Practical Joking with Pirates.

She has posters of her favorite bands on her walls.

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.

A construction site of a new government building displays presidential elections posters.

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.

A cleanly dressed young woman with goloshes on her stockingless feet was washing the floor in the passage.

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

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Smouldering with foul fumes all year long, its effects on the human body are also beginning to tell.

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.

A short hussar in tight riding breeches was galloping along bunched up like a cat in his desire to imitate an English jockey.

Now, with questions about President Hosni Mubarak s successor in the air, Egypt has put aside these talks.

After pointing to the door with her bare arm she again stooped, hiding her handsome face, and went on scrubbing.

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.

Plaques bearing his name also hang outside a modern sports centre and an impressive interactive museum about climate change.

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.

Bent over at their waists, they hobble through a narrow chain link fence, often carrying additional packages in their arms.

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

Two notices are hanging at the front desk a printed one, Please, do not throw paper in the toilet! , and a hand written one, I will accept pins as gifts .

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.

Maybe they ve gathered us together here to divide us into smaller homelands, so we keep spinning around with our heads down, and we tell our children stories about a head that looked up and was cut off.

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.

Old Ermil, wearing a very long white shirt Russian peasants wear their shirts outside their trousers, like smocks. was swinging his scythe, with his back bent young Vaska, who had been in Levin's service as coachman, and who at each swing of his scythe cut the grass the whole width of his swath and Titus, Levin's mowing master, a thin little peasant, who went along without stopping, mowing his wide swath as if in play.

Serezha, dressed all in white, was standing by a table under a looking glass, and arranging some flowers he had brought, with bent head and back, showing that strained attention familiar to her in which he resembled his father.