Sentence examples for rather unhelpful from inspiring English sources

Those ties to Crist wound up being rather unhelpful as Crist plummeted in the GOP primary polls and decided to run as an independent.

There is no pat answer, at least none that go beyond the sound if rather unhelpful advice "Drink what you like".

In the end, science publishers, combined with eminence- and applicability-obsessed funding agencies, have created a rather unhelpful climate for dishonest and greedy scientists to thrive in.

I've been quiet on Iraq lately because it's so tempting -- but rather unhelpful -- to rant one more time about President Bush's folly in launching this war.

I remember looking up a definition of the phrase 'unconventional hydrocarbons' a few years ago and getting the rather unhelpful '…hydrocarbons produced in a way that is not conventional…' but in fact this isn't so far from the truth.

The artist has included a rather unhelpful map on his website, which has the entire 1,200-mile 1,200-milert circled iNamib that indeserts the locircledof the installation.

But changing the letter of the law will be no magic pill: much of the legal dysfunction in the periphery is caused by judicial resistance to change, rather than unhelpful red tape.

Similarly, we believe performance metrics at this level would be unhelpful rather than beneficial, as these would be very dependent on infrastructure, hardware and DMBS used.

My impression is that they tend to be fobbed off, and that the doctors don't seem to be forthcoming with information… On his way up the ward a pair of relatives from another bay collar him for information about their relative's discharge tomorrow – he is rather brusque and unhelpful, as far as I can see.

It has nothing much helpful to say, and would rather not say anything unhelpful.

"We tend to complain to other people about a colleague's unhelpful attitude rather than confronting it".