Sentence examples for unproductive without from inspiring English sources

It is a commonplace of conservative political philosophy that people, barring a restless few touched with genius, are essentially stagnant and unproductive without the threat of privation acting as a whip.

To borrow a turn of phrase from Eleanor Roosevelt, no one can make me unproductive without my consent.

Nick Clegg blocked the central recommendation in the Beecroft report – that employers should be able to sack unproductive staff without explanation.

"It is significant that this informal economy – which is unproductive and without any growth – was being encouraged by the ruling party at the cost of industrial growth and jobs.

It is understood that No 10 is planning to ditch the proposal when a "call for evidence" ends next month on Beecroft's most controversial recommendation – that employers should be allowed to sack unproductive staff without explanation in a scheme known as no fault dismissal.

It is almost impossible to fire unproductive employees without paying generous severance packages, and that removes life-or-death liquidity from a young company.

After all, gold is an unproductive asset, virtually without a yield (it can be lent in the market at a cost).

Immediately after I announced the crisis at hand, everyone wanted to be the one to power up the laptop and start building a spreadsheet or slide presentation; unproductive busy work without direction.

Productive risk is the one assuring value added, but unproductive risk is without value added (investment in mine exploration project includes productive risk of economic type, but attending gambling, for example, where risking one's property to achieve much greater money, is called unproductive risk).

Time Warner was willing to meet, but AT&T, the parent company of DirecTV, refused, saying any meeting should be "conducted on a business-to-business basis... without unproductive public posturing".

Even though the recombination PCR is performed with only one primer for each parent, the amplification PCR is performed with both, thereby creating unique extensions on both ends of the gene and blocking unproductive skew extension without recombination.