Sentence examples for Proved unhelpful from inspiring English sources

Officials with Major League Baseball and the Yankees proved unhelpful.

When my trustworthy research tools proved unhelpful, I became nervous.

Tom Gash from the Institute for Government said ministerial changes and rotation of key civil servants had also proved unhelpful.

Iraqi law has also proved unhelpful in ending the dispute, as there is no precedent for resolving who has the final say on candidate disqualifications.

The police having proved unhelpful, Stanley had come up with a plan: he would commission a film to be made about the scoundrel, exposing him in his nefarious works.

Warren made headlines when he walked free from Newcastle crown court in the early 1990s after a case against him collapsed, ostensibly because of lack of evidence – although his co-accused, Brian Charrington, turned out to be a high-level, paid informer for the North-East Regional Crime Squad, which proved unhelpful to the prosecution.

America's limited room for manoeuvre will also prove unhelpful in future talks.

Even when lenders do not pay for counseling, it can still prove unhelpful.

If those things do not happen, however, an adamant determination to counter anti-trade rhetoric with pro-trade rhetoric may prove unhelpful to the liberal cause.

Many of the screening tests are developed, evaluated and then promoted by specialists and specialty societies — and some prove unhelpful when more widely studied.

It also raises questions about whether representational flexibility is a skill distinct from intelligence, and whether techniques can be developed to help dislodge default representations when those prove unhelpful.