Sentence examples for be unhelpful in from inspiring English sources

If Carney felt such stonewalling would be unhelpful in the current climate, his "gradual and limited" phrase struck the right note – reassuring but vague.

You may be unhelpful in an infinite number of ways, but you were "content" today Hat off to Baroness Rendell (of crime novel fame).

According to court documents filed by victims of hacking, the publisher allegedly produced an email deletion policy in November 2009 whose aim was to "eliminate in a consistent manner" emails "that could be unhelpful in the context of future litigation".

Many apparently sensible suggestions, says PMI's Jan Gillett, will be unhelpful in practice, because in a system made up of many interacting parts like the NHS, changing one part will affect many others, some for the worse.

"I was prevented from doing that by the defence secretary [Hoon] because of the concern of it becoming public knowledge that we were planning for a military contribution, which might be unhelpful in the activity in the UN to secure a security council resolution".

The new prime minister has pledged to tackle the country's many problems "by hook or by crook".Some observers worry about the crook bit, pointing to corrupt associates and a greedy family, and suggest that his strongman image may be unhelpful in the battle against the Maoists.

It could certainly be argued that the word "indigenous" – and related terms such as native, aboriginal, autochthonous and "first peoples" – is unhelpful in its stress on "being first".

It also says that it refers to "historical events" which are "unhelpful" in current peace negotiations.

I think it is unhelpful in relationships to focus on the negatives".

That's unhelpful in various ways – one is that we tend to internalise when we look down.

The passage of time has been unhelpful in another way, notes David Benedict, by building up Saved's fearsome reputation.