Sentence examples for unfortunate incentives from inspiring English sources

While Professor Shiller warns of "some unfortunate incentives to sleaziness inherent in finance" (the title of Chapter 24), he also believes that new financial instruments informed by his research (and his values) can save the day.

The intersection of the two creates some pretty strange and unfortunate incentives.

It is so unfortunate that there are no financial incentives for prevention.

Some insiders believe that - unfortunate as this may be - financial incentives are necessary to drive change across the health service.

However, several issues severely temper my enthusiasm, as follows: 1) Framing the entire model, not just the Introduction and Discussion but the Results, around revisiting and apparently rekindling a half-century old debate between drive and incentive theories of motivation seems unfortunate.

"We were always planning to offer incentives to our own supporters and it was an unfortunate accident of timing that the offer to the Celtic supporters, which we had to do on Tuesday to catch that match on Tuesday, went out before we had announced [the incentives to Kilmarnock fans] the following morning".

"If you have welfare policies that set up perverse incentives for children to be born into disadvantaged households, you're causing children to be born into unfortunate circumstances," he says.

Very unfortunate.

Unfortunate ones.

How unfortunate.

Yes, unfortunate.