Sentence examples for unproductive ground from inspiring English sources

This is especially important in the handling of short-haul aircraft, where unproductive ground time can consume an unacceptably large percentage of flight time.

Dr. Hansen speculated that the songbirds were getting squeezed between increasing development at lower elevations and protected but unproductive breeding grounds at higher elevations.

Once the reliance on air strikes proves unproductive, what next: ground troops?

The two Prime Ministers' talks were largely unproductive, and little common ground was found before Smith flew home on 12 October.

The acidic amino acid is essential to proper enzymatic function, because it not only is important in stabilizing the cofactor properly through bridging water molecules in the ground state (unproductive form) but also plays an important role in stabilizing the putative peroxy pterin intermediate in the transition state.

He rejected the distinction between productive and unproductive labour on the grounds that any labour which created utility was productive.

The effects of this greater competitive ability might take longer than a typical management cycle to manifest as a change in dominance on the ground, particularly in unproductive systems.

Two years ago, in an effort to shore up supervision, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly increased the scrutiny on the midnight shift, which at various times in the department's history has been a dumping ground for problematic and unproductive officers.

Like most landowners in the region, the Mutrans have expanded into cattle ranching, cutting down the jungle and its Brazil nut groves to make way for pastures and to prevent squatters from seizing land and claiming title on grounds that it is unproductive.

However, brown bear range size varies greatly with habitat productivity, with largest home ranges found on unproductive Arctic tundra [ 23]; we used barren-ground range size data for both models.

Even if he didn't believe it was unproductive, Goldsmith would reject the psychotherapeutic approach on the ground that it just takes too long.