Sentence examples for an unproductive path from inspiring English sources

But even if Aung San Suu Kyi fails as a democratic pioneer, even if she may have drawn her country and its critics down an unproductive path, Wintle says, she is one of the rare figures who have shown us what is good in ourselves as human beings.

As I've said before, this would represent a great leap beyond what has become the "QWERTY keyboard" (that is, unproductive path dependence) of international climate policy: the distinction in the Kyoto Protocol between the small set of Annex I countries with quantitative targets, and the majority of countries in the world with no responsibilities.

Let's examine whether the point can be better achieved in better ways, rather than blindly continuing down this unseemly, expensive and unproductive path.

We Boomers (and perhaps Gen X who follows us) have chosen our divisive, unproductive path.

As an activist, as an ally and as someone to whom the future of Israel and Palestine matters enormously, I'm hoping they will once again avoid this unproductive path.

I thought this would be a straight-forward little project, but I went down all sorts of unproductive paths for a couple of months.

Queues also delay feedback, causing developers to follow unproductive paths longer.

Early Novel Adaptations will certainly go down unproductive paths, and some will fail.

The goal as an investor in Novel Adaptations is to avoid allocating capital to companies more likely to go down irretrievably unproductive paths and / or to allocate capital to later stage innovators that operate with the benefit of hindsight and which can provide scalable solutions.

Most importantly, what greater reduction in burden could there be than to eliminate some of the false leads generated by poorly designed, analysed, or reported studies which send researchers down unproductive paths, wasting years of time and money?

It's an unproductive and unfair way of treating people".