Sentence examples for unproductive state from inspiring English sources

Coral reefs are on target to be one of the first major ecosystems to be pushed to an unproductive state.

At any given time around 10% of 16- and 17-year-olds are not working, training or studying, and 1% spend a year or more in this unproductive state.Lord Layard, a member of the Lords committee, thinks that so many teenagers end up adrift because there is no clear, attractive route for non-academic youngsters to take.

This might constitute a mechanism by which the enzyme avoids the formation of a stable but enzymatically unproductive state.

Tea Party champs who have kept the current Congress in a constant and chaotic unproductive state should take note that the public is growing tired of the antics.

The dance here, of course, is that when expectations are so high, they actually may cause you to tip over into an unproductive state.

The proportions of deaths from cancer, cardiac conditions, and chronic respiratory infections in people aged over 25 were similar in the verbal autopsy study and the household survey (see appendix figure A5). 26 Next, we examined the concern that mortality benefits of the scheme might be overstated if people who were treated were left in an unproductive state of high morbidity.

Interestingly, the pause entry and exit rates are very similar, indicating that in the conditions of our experiments the time spent by the ribosome in the productive translation states and the unproductive paused state are nearly the same.

Lula had promised to ramp up land reform by distributing to poor families "unproductive" land expropriated by the state and other federal property.

It is a myriad of small businesses, unproductive subsidies, inflated state contracts and Byzantine regulations seemingly designed to inhibit productivity.

The population is shrinking and ageing, the economy is hopelessly unproductive and the state can no longer pay for the paternalist social services of which Cuba was once proud.

All those other supposedly unproductive, uneconomic and state subsidised industries were allowed to face the economic X-Factor of the 80s and 90s and yet farmers somehow managed to cling to their subsidies and their land and their EC protected crop gluts and received generous benefits simply for doing us all a favour and acting as 'custodians' of the land.