Sentence examples for for being unproductive from inspiring English sources

WATCHING cat videos is so popular that it has become shorthand for being unproductive, whether or not someone being distracted by the Internet is actually watching a cat riding a robotic vacuum or playing the piano.

And it doesn't appear that Congress is punished for being unproductive.

In both the for profit and nonprofit worlds, meetings are notorious for being unproductive, or even counter-productive.

The old man's rooster, chased away by the old woman for being unproductive, ends up amassing a huge fortune, which he keeps inside his belly and regurgitates back into the courtyard; the jealous old woman ends up killing her favorite hen, who has failed in replicating the rooster's feat.

Job security is ensured by the nature of public employment, where rarely do staff get terminated or sanctioned for being unproductive.

Where nursing staff had been employed and were available on site in primary facilities, a surprising amount of time was non-productive, with over half the nurses being unproductive for at least three hours on a vaccination clinic day, considered to be the busiest time of the week.

Create a 30-60-90 dandplan and outline what is expected of your new employee to ensure that you have defined the position so there is no room for uncertainty or wasting time and being unproductive.

But the initial figures are encouraging, and Mr. Obama is right to insist that continued Republican demands for repeal are unproductive and unwise.

Walker also criticized George's assumptions that technical progress was always labor saving and whether land held for speculation was unproductive or inefficient.

Blaming foreigners for U.S. deficits is unproductive and potentially dangerous.

But perhaps, as Freire tells us, assuming that the past shows us what is possible for the future is unproductive and overly deterministic.