Everyone -- a lot of people, and certainly we made clear back in December that a political effort to short-circuit that process for ideological reasons would be counterproductive because a proper review that weighed all the important issues in this case could not be achieved in 60 days -- according to the State Department, which, again, runs this review process.
But Gill believes any protest would be counterproductive on a night when United will be bidding to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.
With only eight episodes left, this sort of distraction from the main plot would be stupid and counterproductive and a waste of precious, precious screentime.
Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's man for South Asia, announced last month that, in the revamped campaign against the Taliban, America would no longer push for the eradication of opium crops, which he said was counterproductive and a waste of money.
Such a counterproductive measure would have negative effects beyond our oil and gas industry.
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Storm suggested that any move to dissolve the current elected government would be counterproductive, since a unity government would find it difficult to reach consensus on reforms.
In contrast, the macroprudential supervisor would recognize that, for the system as a whole, excessively conservative lending policies could prove counterproductive if they contribute to a weaker economic and credit environment.
Policymakers face a daunting task in closing the yawning gap between revenues and expenditures in the coming years, but targeting medical innovation is a particularly counterproductive approach.
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Even more counterproductive would be the creation of a new international body to oversee Internet governance.
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Such actions were counterproductive and of dubious legitimacy, a columnist in the Harvard Law Record argued.
Many fear that such a move would be counterproductive, inviting more criminals to arm themselves with higher grade weaponry.
He later developed a model which found that large differences between the highest and lowest income level at a company may be counterproductive for the company.
This is a shame, and quite counterproductive to the ongoing development of good public policy.
Some bankers feel that a rate hike will be counterproductive as it will discourage investment.
That is surely preferable, say Bank officials, to a highly visible and possibly counterproductive regime shift.
The focus that many doctors have on controlling diabetes may be mistaken, possibly counterproductive, if insulin resistance is actually a protective mechanism.
That's supposed to take effect in January of 2010, but if the economy is still weak, a tax hike could be counterproductive, says Blinder.
Meanwhile, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who is also in Islamabad, says operations along the border should be done "in a way that is not counterproductive".
However, they should warn that forcing businesses to offer a new retirement benefit would be counterproductive, making it even harder for companies to create new jobs.
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He also criticised the building of Israeli settlements on land which Palestinians want to be part of a future state as being "counterproductive to the cause of peace".
American capital markets are far and away the most liquid and efficient in the world, despite a minuscule national savings rate and a tax policy that swerves between counterproductive and comical.
For this reason, trying to stimulate growth through a spending binge is bound to be counterproductive.
The Laffer Curve embodies a commonsense principle: there is a point at which raising taxes becomes counterproductive.
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Sprint TV's also included, of course, but it just hangs on 4G whenever you try to watch a program -- we had to turn it off and use EV-DO to make it work, which is pretty counterproductive considering how much better it could look on a faster, lower-latency connection.
Even the 2001 Congress (with a GOP majority in the House) realized that the tax cuts might turn out to be counterproductive in the future- and they had the good sense to plan for this despite doing so during a time when we not only had surpluses but believed that we would continue to be in the money for many years to come.
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If not, emigration from poorer to richer countries is only a short-term palliative and may be counterproductive as it reduces incentives to deal with the population problem.
As a tactic for encouraging compromise, his approach was counterproductive.
Even accepting these premises I fail to see how implementing a complicated, controversial, financially burdensome and ultimately counterproductive testing regime is the correct answer to getting rid of the bad teachers while attracting good people to the profession.
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