Sentence examples for generally unproductive from inspiring English sources

Some advocates for reforming authorities were surprised that the Senate took up the bill before its summer recess, after concluding a chaotic and generally unproductive session.

Professor Dylan Wiliam, deputy director of the Institute of Education, says: "Getting pupils to do homework is an incredibly expensive and generally unproductive public relations exercise.

In fields like human rights, freedom of expression and rule of law, or on issues like Tibet, there is virtually nothing outsiders can do that will affect internal Chinese policy, and while America cannot be seen to condone gross abuses, taking aggressive stances is generally unproductive.

However, studio sessions were generally unproductive and, after two weeks, yielded only one song recorded to the singer's satisfaction the Jim Abbiss-produced "Take It All", a lovelorn piano ballad not unlike the songs on 19.

During the 1938 tour, McCabe had been generally unproductive and he missed much of the subsequent Australian season due to illness and only played sporadically thereafter before cricket was cancelled due to World War II.

Cats will likely continue spraying regardless, so these methods are generally unproductive.

In between is an indistinct, often pointless, largely unproductive, generally unprofitable realm that is enormously conducive to human happiness: puttering about.

If they are assumed to be generally dependent and unproductive, they are likely to be denied the very provisions that would enable them to contribute and produce – a circle that may be vicious (Nussbaum 2006a).

Soils in Qatar are marked by a small degree of organic material and are generally calcareous and agriculturally unproductive.

The area, 132,559 square miles (343,328 square km), consisted of two geographic divisions: the area northwest of the Aravalli Range, this being mostly sandy and unproductive and including part of the Great Indian (Thar) Desert; and the area southeast of the range, which is generally higher and more fertile.

There is associated pyrexia with rigors and sweating, and an unproductive cough, which occur generally several hours after exposure to the antigenic dust.