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Discover LudwigThe phrase "deemed unproductive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is considered not to yield positive results or outcomes, often in discussions about work, projects, or activities.
Example: "After reviewing the team's performance, the management deemed unproductive the strategies that were implemented last quarter."
Alternatives: "considered ineffective" or "regarded as unhelpful".
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Across Brazil, property deemed unproductive by the MST is subject to invasion by landless groups hundreds strong.
They were being sidelined because they were deemed unproductive, and with multimillion-dollar contracts they needed to be kept healthy so they could be bought out next summer under a provision of the new collective bargaining agreement.
The homesteads, while basic, seem well-provided, the fields are fertile and well-irrigated, and nature runs riot in a manner that would surely be deemed unproductive by most Western farmers.
Hence, classroom discussion activities might be deemed unproductive and contribute little to bring about meaningful learning.
As described in the private sector, such bullying practices are used to avoid the financial costs of firing workers deemed unproductive, making this a case of instrumentalized bullying (Salin, 2003a) that achieves an organizational rather than an individual goal.
As a tactic to achieve this, both Islamist and secularist participants described bullying directed from management towards personnel deemed unproductive or redundant in a company, regardless of their sociopolitical orientation.
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Lebeaume (2011) highlights that the proposed amendments of the French education system (content-based teaching/learning to skill-based teaching/learning) 'breaks down barriers between strictly disciplinary teachings since this deems unproductive for investment of educational achievements as a whole' (p. 2).
In fact, we have a robust lexicon for people who are deemed not busy, unproductive.
Instead, they are fighting to maintain the status quo of rounding up wild horses en masse from public lands and stockpiling them in holding facilities, a practice the NAS recently deemed "expensive and unproductive".
Magazine found that 67percentt of meetings are deemed to be "failures" by executives, and more than $37 billion are wasted on these unproductive gatherings every year.
He deemed this "offensive".
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