Sentence examples for a productive exercise from inspiring English sources

ARGUE PRODUCTIVELY You're probably going to argue, so you might as well make it a productive exercise.

"I've seen him in the Senate and worked with him on a couple issues in the Senate and that's been a productive exercise," he said.

Edward C. Sullivan, a former Democratic assemblyman from Manhattan who for a time supported the 2000 challenge, said criticizing Mr. Silver would not be a productive exercise, particularly because no viable challenger had emerged.

If you want to make it a productive exercise, you need to have a clear idea of which kind of information you need to get in the first place, and then focus on that aspect.

Solitary efforts have a higher likelihood of failure, and having others challenge your assumptions is often a productive exercise.

"Republicans have found in the past that shutting down the government is not a productive exercise," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz)., who suggested that GOP lawmakers considering a shutdown should review that history.

Swearing in Russian is a linguistically productive exercise The professed thinking behind the law is that such a ban will not only ennoble Russian culture but also position Russia as the antithesis of the decadent west.

Swearing in Russian is a linguistically productive exercise; by applying prefixes, infixes, suffixes and different combinations of the four words, khuy, pizda, blyad and yebat can be used to express pretty much anything, and in a surprisingly eloquent manner.

He said the debate around what measures were needed to curb filesharing had been a "very productive exercise" and claimed it had in fact brought various parties closer together.

The region's great expanse of ice makes searching for the blackened remains of objects that have fallen from the sky a particularly productive exercise.

It could be worth bringing up the diversity of the classroom in a positive and productive exercise at the beginning of a class as well.