Sentence examples for hardly productive from inspiring English sources

These are not necessarily used productively, of course – real estate bubbles are hardly productive investment.

He himself tackled the subject in a brief memoir, "Darkness Visible" (1990), offering a melancholy coda to a career that was celebrated yet hardly productive.

The story of the Chinese-found objects was not the first or the last false alarm, and was hardly productive even if the intention is to cross debris off the list.

"SOB boss" symptoms include: Expresses a very negative view of himself, referring explicitly to himself as "a tough son-of-a-bitch" or "a tough little bastard" when in fact he hardly gets tough, productive results.

A poorly educated public is hardly as productive as a well-educated one and will generate less in taxes.

His performances for Queensland were hardly more productive; he scored 161 runs at 16.10 and aside from a rain-affected draw, his state lost their remaining six matches.

Suppressing discussion can hardly be productive.

Burman also made the point that pushing people to hold stocks they would rather sell is hardly conducive to productive investment.

"Boris" is the last production of Kent Nagano's productive if hardly problem-free seven-year tenure as the Bayerische Staatsoper's music director; from here he goes to the Hamburg Staatsoper.

Moscow and Washington are hardly able to conduct productive negotiations on any of the important questions that divide them.

Americans display, in this respect, an attitude which is always sharp, free, original, and productive, but hardly anyone in the United States devotes himself to the essentially theoretical and abstract aspects of human knowledge".Bruno Prior Maidenhead, Berkshire.