Sentence examples for over productive from inspiring English sources

Our current tax policies favor speculative investment in financial instruments over productive investments in human capabilities.

We live with the worst consequences of an economic system rigged to support financiers over productive working people.

Instead, apart from increasing bank leverage ratios, which makes lending even harder, and separating commercial and investment banks, which makes the latter more focused on large firms, we have today the same incentives and tax structures that favour speculative over productive finance (eg low capital gains tax, high tax on work).

However, in rural areas of Benin, women often face problems in the adoption of new technologies due to the lack of time or funds and poor control over productive resources.

Then, it is somewhat surprising that the unitary model could be adopted for them because, generally speaking, English education in Japan tends to emphasize receptive skills over productive skills partly owing to the fact that the NCT measures only the former.

Localist narratives of 'food sovereignty' focus on enhancing smallholder access and control over productive resources and diversification in ways that are better suited to the geography of production, but they are yet to address the political anxieties presented by food questions at the national level.

The over-productive romance writer Ruby M Ayres gave us a very bad mother in her 1924 book Ribbons and Lace.

There is also a danger of an increasing reliance on grapes from over-productive regions like Riverlands where, according to local legend, "you plant a nail and grow a crowbar".

Conventional wisdom in peaceful Vermont advises locking cars at shopping centers to avoid finding your backseat filled with generous donations of zucchini left by a kind, over-productive gardener.

This is because cows that have longer necks tend to be over-productive milkers, and because of this higher selection in milking ability, will be later maturing and late breeders.

He's one of those people who could be fired, but firing him would use up so much capital that there would be little left over for productive action.