Sentence examples for unproductive from from inspiring English sources

Respect for vegetal life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those unproductive from the human point of view.

For the current analysis, mean change in SDS total score (∆SDS total), individual domain scores (work/school, family life, social life), and the number of days lost and number of days unproductive from baseline to 6-weeks was used to describe the efficacy of treatment on improvement in functional impairment.

Since then the development of nonagricultural jobs has failed to keep pace with a rapidly growing labour force, and unemployment grew during the 1990s as the government shed large numbers of unproductive positions from the bureaucracy as part of a fiscal austerity policy.

After a stretch of four unproductive starts from August 3 19 (1 1, 7.20 ERA in 25 innings), Greinke followed up with four consecutive starts of at least seven innings and two or fewer runs — all of them wins.

Intense scrutiny and unproductive criticism from bosses.

However, the search of experts without funding from industry may be unproductive, and freedom from any conflict (not only financial) can be difficult to ascertain.

In 2006, when he oversaw the cold case squad, Chief Reznick sent a scathing memo threatening to transfer six detectives he saw as unproductive, drawing fury from the Detectives' Endowment Association but praise from the higher-ups.

It can draw people away from unproductive pursuits and relationships.

The division has been plagued by problems ranging from unproductive pages -- arrays of products that no one orders -- to high returns (people sending what they ordered back).

But if the outwardly impressive economy is to continue motoring along, firms, people and capital must be freed to move more quickly from unproductive sectors into fizzier ones.

This would free the dialogue from unproductive argument about who should move first and how far to meet the concerns of the other.