Sentence examples for increasingly unhelpful from inspiring English sources

And if they're increasingly unhelpful, then obviously the conditions on the ground are less advantageous.

In Britain, as in 18th-century London, the categories of "native" and "foreign" are increasingly unhelpful in describing what is important about its people.

Categorising books as one thing or another is increasingly unhelpful to readers and may serve to hamper the creativity of authors.

The country has grown in recent years, and has crossed the arbitrary and increasingly unhelpful "middle-income" threshold laid down by the World Bank.

When he felt the time had come to retire (and the 1980s were not a happy time for independent publishers, with the banks increasingly unhelpful), he accepted an offer from Tom Rosenthal.

Senior female figures have led the party away from the tired, old fashioned and increasingly unhelpful top-down tactics that were starting to fail us in 2005 and had distinctly lost their lustre by 2010.

"The polarised 'one-size-fits all' rhetoric we increasingly hear from both sides is unhelpful.

Stroke survivors frequently experience an initial paralysis, after which flexor muscles become increasingly active, sometimes developing into an unhelpful spasticity.

This increasingly hardline stance, plus what Wehsely calls "very unhelpful language" from some sections of the media, means "the feeling is different now" in Vienna.

Mr Webster has already said that he will not stay in his post if he considers that it would be unhelpful for him to do so.Despite their public, if increasingly lukewarm, backing for Mr Pitt right to the end, White House officials are already understood to have drawn up a list of potential successors.

In 2013, the Times reported that Heywood was becoming "an increasingly controversial figure in Whitehall": "not explicitly disloyal" to ministers with whom he disagreed, but "unhelpful to the government".