(...) She says limiting the size of containers will not solve the problem, it will have the opposite effect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

So what I want to point out is that it creates an effect that is exactly opposite of a bond.

我要指出的是,它造成的效果和成键正好相反。

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Otherwise it will have the opposite effect of excluding large chunks of poor people and they could become even worse off than they are today,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

But,Alisher Khamidov, a journalist in southern Kyrgyzstan, says the vote may have the opposite effect.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22