Sentence examples for make unhelpful from inspiring English sources

I could make unhelpful comments about a North-South divide... .. "It may be cheating slightly, but, as far as I'm aware, Waitrose does not trade in Northern Ireland," says John Morrow, from Belfast, who is right to say that his home town is sans Waitrose.

In his essay Why Bother, Franzen articulates the way a list intrinsically declares life's limit, this time in relation to reading: "I began to make unhelpful calculations, multiplying the number of books I'd read in the previous year by the number of years I might reasonably expect to live... the news on that front wasn't cheering".

Assume good intentions from other authors and revert the edits if they make unhelpful changes.

There will always be things to watch out for as you drive, and if you're alert and expecting surprises, you'll be in a much better position to react in a way that doesn't cause you to panic or make unhelpful maneuvers.

With Vice, I find most of the comparisons that critics are making unhelpful.

The chief executive of International Airlines Group said Heathrow "missed the opportunity of expansion several years ago," explaining: "Heathrow should have pursued the issue but instead made unhelpful comments that it didn't want to expand.

Docherty said he regretted that Anwar was "making unhelpful comments to the press" and said he did not like "innuendo and speculation" about the case while the PIRC investigation was under way.

Hoover and Roosevelt, Truman and Stevenson, Eisenhower and Nixon (and Goldwater), Johnson and Humphrey, Reagan and Bush Sr., Clinton and Gore: The former men could drive the latter to distraction, interfering with political strategy and making unhelpful comments.

Brian Docherty, the SPF's chairman, said he did not want to add to the Bayoh's family's pain by making "unhelpful comments" to the press but then immediately echoed Watson's claims.

All the while, Bailey is an uneasy, almost abrasive presence, making unhelpful comments about the revealing nature of the costumes and spouting the n-word provocatively in his clipped South African intonation.

Israel is again making unhelpful "red line" warnings.