Sentence examples for unproductive ways from inspiring English sources

Suddenly, Toronto, which had scrapped the whole game, was back to its unproductive ways.

Moreover, the problem of gaining access to existing lines wastes valuable time by directing researchers' energies in unproductive ways.

So Kenyon Martin did his best to manufacture ferocity, but it kept coming out in strange and unproductive ways.

"These provisions threaten to burden American consumers and industry in unproductive ways, and may actually harm a well-functioning product safety system," the administration statement said.

CBT encourages you to discover and expose negative and unproductive ways of thinking such as grabbing that chocolate bar and teaches you to replace these thinking patterns with more helpful ones.

At a moment when Americans increasingly recognize that treatment is more effective than punishment for addressing addiction, such a dehumanizing message will only inflame the public debate in unproductive ways.

It seems like a very unproductive way to work.

Mintz added, "They must learn to avoid people, places and things that cause them to react in an unproductive way".

Ayer should have dropped the movie-within-a-movie, which is confusing in an unproductive way — we share the men's point of view without it.

One drawback of this book, however, is that when Breger disagrees with Freud, as he does on the question of femininity, he does so in an unproductive way.

In theory, we could work shorter hours in a more focused and productive manner, rather than long hours in an unfocused and unproductive way.