Sentence examples for unproductive exercise from inspiring English sources

To some individuals, identifying and analyzing medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace might seem like an unproductive exercise.

"'Pounding the trouser snake' – masturbating: an unproductive, self-indulgent exercise".

In 1995, Mr. Pataki met with legislative leaders in front of reporters, but the talks quickly became stilted and unproductive and the exercise was abandoned.

Professor Dylan Wiliam, deputy director of the Institute of Education, says: "Getting pupils to do homework is an incredibly expensive and generally unproductive public relations exercise.

In another instance, Ms. Pallini said Italian labor laws allowed an unproductive worker to exercise his option of working three years beyond retirement age, even though the employee was slow and unable to operate some crucial machinery.

Another example of an unproductive, dysfunctional Congress.

It may seem odd that we need these exercises — why would natural selection leave us with such unproductive fetishes?

– unproductive.

It becomes very unproductive".

Set pieces were unproductive.

It is unproductive".