Sentence examples for unhelpful by from inspiring English sources

(People who are unhelpful by nature eliminate themselves).

In fact, Mr Warsh said that the Fed was being actively unhelpful by "crowding in" Congress's supposedly poor policy choices.

The future is threatening and the past made remote and unhelpful by older people, nostalgic and constricted by fear.

" The snooker champion's comments were previously branded "extremely unhelpful" by Ruth Holdaway, head of the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation.

If America commits itself to carbon cuts, China will feel obliged to make some kind of promise too.Many see India as unhelpful by comparison.

Israeli leaders might feel their knuckles rapped, and the latest settlements expansion might be deemed "unhelpful" by the EU or the US – but until there's an active intervention with financial consequences nothing will change.

He describes a 2011 meeting overshadowed by rows with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, and by unhelpful briefings by General David Petraeus, then the military commander in Afghanistan.

In the unlikely event that any of you care, last year saw a Taureg rebellion morph into an Islamist insurgency that took northern Mali, followed by a rather unhelpful coup by the Malian army.

He said: "This is a really unhelpful move by France on all fronts.

Company B's relations with local villagers are cordial but ultimately unhelpful, undermined by deception.

But in reality, we are desperately open to being swayed in unhelpful directions by a mere glimpse at a picture.