Sentence examples for hardly constructive from inspiring English sources

This might be a good piece of advice for people who hide in the past, but it is hardly constructive for people who surrender themselves to memory deletion.

North Koreans can get in serious trouble for trying to talk to a foreigner about any substantive issues, so this is "hardly constructive engagement", she says.

"Personal attacks and inaccurate assertions in the media are hardly constructive methods of bridging differences or ultimately making a new agreement," he said.

However, I am a flawed, fallible scientist — my initial reaction on Twitter to his piece was angry and, I have to confess, hardly constructive — so although I failed the first time, I would like to give reasoned argument another go.

However, this is hardly constructive and neither helps the Tamils' cause nor boosts their own stature or bargaining power," says the Hindustan Times.

Yet none of our leaders has said "boo" on the subject, and hardly any constructive action has been taken.

Mr. Bush's disdain for the ABM treaty -- and other international agreements -- hardly sets a constructive precedent for controlling these weapons.

Given that research on prevention, public health and behaviour intervention already receives far less government funding than research aimed toward treatment [ 69], such pressure can hardly be viewed as constructive.

Thus, for InGaN/GaN MQWs' growth, phase difference and constructive or destructive interference hardly occur when the incoming light is 950 or 633 nm due to both the low transparent InGaN and thin InGaN/GaN MQWs' layer.

Another post a week later was more constructive, but the fact is hardly anyone knows exactly what needs to be done — although even the president seems to agree that something has to change.

Meanwhile, he himself was hardly at home in the university community, with its constructive norms and myriad rules.