How To Use Unproductive In A Sentence

To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
The discovery of a pocket of cassiterite here in 1915 created a small flurry of interest in tin; however, further exploration was unproductive.
But in this present world we have entire nations that see the woman, her nature, and her femininity as worthless, unimportant, purposeless, and unproductive. Women must ask whose thinking is that?
Walton provides a chart with all the instances p.48, and suggests that the evidence points to the term denoting unproductiveness rather than lack of material form. Review of The Lost World of Genesis One, Part Four
Their land was unproductive because their goal was to farm areas that were waste or common. The English Civil War: A People's History

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Whoever contributes nothing directly or indirectly to production, is an unproductive consumer.
The second aspect of contradiction within Bukharin's equations is that between accumulation and unproductive consumption.
Introducing salt-tolerant crops such as salicornia could utilise millions of hectares of unproductive arid land while conserving valuable freshwater resources and providing both material and economic returns to local inhabitants. Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
One - quarter of the country is reckoned as unproductive.
Farmers simply saw the marsh as unproductive land that could be used for grazing animals.
Further, owners must be refrained from selling unproductive aged cows and should be severely dealt for this criminal act.
Research workers are well aware that much of their time and effort is unproductive.
There has been an increasingly unproductive debate on the difference between modernism and postmodernism.
Out of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed there will obviously be a portion which goes on personal consumption.
When it struck a herd, up to 90 per cent died and the surviving animals became sickly and unproductive. Times, Sunday Times
Tennessee ran down the shot clock but came away with an unproductive possession as Terrence Woods launched an airball from the top of the key with 31 seconds left. NCAA Men's Basketball - Tennessee vs. Arkansas
the talks between labor and management were unproductive
India faced some hurdles - low PC penetration, the possibility of piracy and the general perception of games as an unproductive activity.
You rarely waste energies on unproductive activities.
Government props prevented the failure and liquidation of unproductive, unprofitable businesses and capital.
Our tax systems need to encourage voluntary compliance, provide efficient service to the taxpayers, eliminate unproductive work and enhance efficiency.
The trees are bare, the land is bleak, closed, unproductive and numb, its furrows seemingly incapable of the new life we hope for in the spring.
But you know, my heart just sank too deep knowing how horribly spiteful, cruel and unproductive this issue is.
Their land was unproductive because their goal was to farm areas that were waste or common. The English Civil War: A People's History
Born as a result of a curse, she lives an accursed, wasteful, unproductive life of pain and loneliness, and dies in loneliness and in intolerable agony.
In oligotrophic (unproductive) lakes that undergo thermal stratification in the summer, the oxygen content of the epilimnion decreases as the water temperature increases. Chemical properties of lakes
Research workers are well aware that much of their time and effort is unproductive.
In this way, unproductive life - life before and after work or rather life in excess of work - is recaptured in the reproductive margins of the normative household, redelivered in other words to the ends of proper social production and the reproduction of the time of labour. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
When a research program is unproductive for a long period it suggests that something may be wrong with the questions being asked or the methods being used.
Similarly, if the rate of unproductive consumption declines, then - cet. par. - accumulation increases.
Many knowledge workers know all about these unproductive and unnecessary time demands; yet they are afraid to prune them. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Logging concessions are stimulated by the wrong incentives: it is more lucrative to clear forestland for plantations than to plant on open and unproductive land.
If the writer whom I quote has reflected upon the meaning of his words, he has seen that the word privation which he uses is synonymous with non-production, and that consequently those for whose benefit taxes are collected are very truly unproductive laborers. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
I am particularly concerned with the new costs associated with road enclosure permits, especially when these areas of land are often unproductive.
It is high time the Government worked out an appropriate strategy to divert such investment from unproductive ventures like shebeens to more productive areas.
The efforts of early missionaries to proselyte Minnesota Indians were largely unproductive.
Our foreign policy in this regard is very clear and we wonder why some rich nations decide to waste their huge resources on unproductive ventures.
Frustratingly unproductive weekend, caused partly by the momentary glimmerings of a social life and partly by my own hopelessness and indolence.
You should see a vase-shape of branches emerging from the trunk, but on poorly pruned trees, there is also usually a mass of unproductive upright stems - epicormic growth - coming from the centre, and it's these you want to remove, along with larger, obviously dead, diseased or crossing boughs. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Logging concessions are stimulated by the wrong incentives: it is more lucrative to clear forestland for plantations than to plant on open and unproductive land.
It tied up productive capital in unproductive areas, rather than releasing funds for the next generation of innovative businesses. Times, Sunday Times
We don't need to account for money/time lost on other unproductive activities - we are only monitoring spam's impact.
Concrete abstractions regarding productive and unproductive identities are reified and spaces, along with the bodies that occupy those spaces, are imbued with ideologies of capitalism and patriarchy.
There is intriguing evidence of persistent overmanning, i.e. maintaining unproductive labour, well into the structural adjustment phase.
Unproductive meetings, domestic rows and uncomfortable social chit-chat can all be caused by status needs being ignored and camouflaged.
Following these rules has dragged even the big networks into broadcasting drivel in their news bulletins in a demented and ultimately unproductive effort to keep their viewer numbers high.
Be that as it may, the Reservation, as relates to present civilization, is unproductive, unhistoric ground.
Really, there is a a fair bit of wisdom in associates who are “unproductive” (i.e. unwilling to entirely sacrifice the maintenance of their personal identity so partners can maintain the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed) to band together and start firms of their own. Legal Slump Ahead? : Law is Cool
He's just one more "unproductive" waste of taxpayer dollars who really didn't have a prayer as far as getting re-elected goes and he knows it! jazzer First on the CNN Ticker: Florida senator to resign seat
Failure to invoke sanctions may lead to a loss of management control and unproductive employee behavior. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
For Love itself, the benefactor of things that be, pre-existing overflowingly in the Good, did not permit itself to remain unproductive in itself, but moved itself to creation [36], as befits the overflow which is generative of all. Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897)
Bears scrounging for human food will be busy at the water-side campsites, and will almost invariably ignore the far-removed and unproductive woods.
It was a kind of land generally known in the West as "barrens" -- rolling upland, with very thin, unproductive soil. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History
To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Monday he was not satisfied the wording of the review would prevent the conference from "descending into the same kind of rancorous and unproductive debate that took place in 2001. Rocky Mount Telegram - Business
Or, more often, we go about each in an unproductive way.
Unproductive meetings, domestic rows and uncomfortable social chit-chat can all be caused by status needs being ignored and camouflaged.
Many of course would stop here and dismiss this inherently nostalgic call for a revalidation of the beautiful as hopelessly retrograde and unproductive.
However, the process was unproductive and Avril was not satisfied with the songs because they did not feel right.
Some of them are now realizing following or pleasing the uneducated tea party morons and Fox news ridiculous commentators is unproductive. Gingrich praises Obama's speech
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single unproductive corn of wheat; but if it _die_, it germinates and brings forth much fruit. Sermons to the Natural Man
There are many instances of necessary unproductive consumption, both in the absolute and historically determined sense.
The unproductive workers would be banned from taking firms to employment tribunals. The Sun
In the beginning, we would sit together at a computer in New York or Chicago and rough things out, which was a lot of fun but extremely unproductive.
And the unproductive periods do seem to correlate somewhat with gloomier moods.
In some ways it was a strangely unproductive night, I only got six or seven photos out of the two and a bit hours of work, but thankfully all of them should be useable by the charity.
The university considered his work academically and financially unproductive, and this endowment was the quid pro quo for renewing his post. COMPULSION
The CCN was also correct to state that corruption is not only the theft and mismanagement of public funds, but runs far deeper - whether in fact it is unauthorised telephone use or unproductive time-wasting at work.
Page 273: The proportion, therefore, between the productive and unproductive hands, depends very much in every country upon the proportion between that part of the annual produce which, as soon as it becomes either from the ground or from the hands of the productive laborers, is destined for constituting a revenue, either as rent, or as profit. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
For example, requesting all comments and questions are addressed to you ensures effective use of group time and avoids unproductive arguments between trainees. Training with N.L.P.
Who am I to complain about them, they just wanted a good laugh, and I was glad I provided some entertainment on the last lazy, unproductive Friday.
Most deputies, many parish priests among them, believed that contemplatives were useless parasites, unproductive burdens on society whose existence no national church could justify.
Thus, it seems unproductive to note that TAS's gait is compliant or that it's swinging its arms widely or that it's holding its hands in an unusual position. Frame 352, and all that
Such self-regulatory perseveration is characterized by unproductive rumination about the failure.
Holding onto profits might lead to excessive executive compensation, sloppy management, and unproductive use of assets.
This process saved the old timers the unproductive work and unnecessary sweat of windlassing all dirt up the shaft to the surface.
Isn't there another grouchy, unproductive and anonymous, online malcontent - one who shares your discomfort for "turgid" things - for for you to play with, say losergrrl, for instance? "This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama.
Since 1985 hundreds of thousands of peasants have taken it upon themselves to carry out land reform by occupying unproductive land.
The Western equivalent - let's call her Tigger Mum - well, she was praising hers for creating frankly abominable craft objects, and being nice "indulgent", says Chua, thus ensuring her kids were heading for global decline and a dangerously unproductive activity called "fun". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
There's sometimes a fine line between vigorous, healthy debate and angry, unproductive arguments.
WIAN: Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin had what he calls a frank but apparently unproductive discussion with President Bush about the dispute last week. CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2005
Of course the credits pose an inconvenient problem as they are unproductive and equally a turn-off.
When it struck a herd, up to 90 per cent died and the surviving animals became sickly and unproductive. Times, Sunday Times
To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
He hoped Afrikaners would now quickly p! ass the "gatvol" stage of their debate, because this condition just made one "sour and constipated and unproductive". ANC Daily News Briefing
After a few days of unproductive searching, they returned to Shalisa Creek Bay, downhearted and discouraged.
There are areas on which there are tracts of land which are quite unproductive and which could easily be acquired for plantation with suitable trees.
It seems somewhat bizarre but when I really think about it, not unusual from Labour - that it would want us to encourage unproductive activity but discourage productive activity.
It makes citizens passive, unproductive, and servile.
In fact, freed of the crushing exactions laid upon them by a Rome always eager to bribe its vast, unproductive military class into quietude, they may even have been left to enjoy more of the fruits of their own labors than usual.
Half-term was mind-numbingly unproductive in terms of writing, perhaps because I'm still shagged out after the house move.
Of course, not all unproductive activities funded by surplus value are necessarily wasteful or parasitic.
But that said, yes, for some people consuming porn can be totally unproductive, and the only way to remain comfortable is to forego it. Penn and Teller to Defend Adult Industry on “Bullshit” « Skid Roche
Fear, worry, stress, and compulsivity, the unpleasant and unproductive states known collectively as anxiety, are even more common than depression. The Chemistry of Calm
In this sense unproductive labor occupies the position of an other, a category of labor in difference that can be known primarily by its negative content, which is to say its precise negation of all that defines productive labor.
Mr McCully said New Zealand would not attend because he was not satisfied the wording of the draft declaration would prevent the conference from "descending into the same kind of rancorous and unproductive debate that took place in 2001". TUMEKE!
Taxpayer's money must be spent in the best interest of the citizens in order to satisfy their basic needs, and not on unproductive projects.
He said weaner production would result in the national herd being mainly productive cows and not unproductive oxen. ANC Daily News Briefing
But slaves were given only 4-6 qt of farinaceous food weekly if their provision grounds proved unproductive.
Sometimes a man will labour for weeks and months in unproductive ground, following up a small vein in the hope of its leading into a good lode, and making so little by his hard toil that on pay day of each month he is compelled to ask his employer for "subsist" -- or a small advance of money -- to enable him to live and go on with his work. Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries
I believe the unproductive have no right to confiscate from the productive. Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Some of it is a modern version of a very ancient feeling that exchange is in some sense degrading, partly because of its calculatedness, partly because it seems to be unproductive in the sense that it seems to produce no physical embodiment of value, especially where it looks as if equal values are exchanged. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
When it struck a herd, up to 90 per cent died and the surviving animals became sickly and unproductive. Times, Sunday Times
She's unproductive and pointless, feckless and meaningless, she's a garbagy, no good, valueless trash deposit. Archive 2007-01-01
In some cases the provision grounds comprised marginal, unproductive land; in others the soil was ideal for food crops.
They occupied the land and the New Zealand Government allocated only some rather unproductive land to the Moriori.
These have been some really unproductive years for me.
The American military initially found the South as a convenient locale of large amounts of unproductive land that could be converted into training facilities.
The trees are bare, the land is bleak, closed, unproductive and numb, its furrows seemingly incapable of the new life we hope for in the spring.
Trying to make ourselves stronger than everyone else is surely an unproductive, ultimately fruitless endeavor.
Completely wasted my entire day in unproductive activity and left the blasted cluster room hours later seething with frustration and disgust.
Cabinet meetings had grown so unproductive and depressing that we had to plead with the President to schedule them.
I completely wasted my entire day in unproductive activity and left the blasted room hours later seething with frustration and disgust.
Some commercial plantings in New York become unproductive within three years because of mosaic virus while other plantings seem unaffected.
Discussions are sometimes abusive and unpleasant, and often sterile and unproductive, with most people adhering rigidly to their long-entrenched prejudices.
There are areas on which there are tracts of land which are quite unproductive and which could easily be acquired for plantation with suitable trees.
In fact all Mayo could manage while assisted by the wind in the second half was three points, the third one by Cora Staunton in the 55th minute to end an unproductive period of fourteen minutes.
As with every Democratic initiative, the centerpiece is a massive tax increase on productive members of society so the liberals can buy votes from the unproductive. Obama says country near end of health care reform battle
It would be nice if we could have some civility and comity for awhile; this is exhausting and mostly unproductive.
Farmers simply saw the marsh as unproductive land that could be used for grazing animals.
It tied up productive capital in unproductive areas, rather than releasing funds for the next generation of innovative businesses. Times, Sunday Times
Red Lambert is too unproductive to be used except as a pollenizer. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934
Saying sayonara to unproductive worry means you'll be less anxious and depressed; plus you'll sleep better and may even have fewer headaches and digestive problems.
With the tight end position unproductive in 2000, Bennett might provide a new dimension as an H-back, fullback or halfback.
There is also evidence of departure from the traditional approach to job design and the attempted elimination of unproductive activities from job specifications.
Then cut out any old, unproductive branches and damaged, diseased or crossing stems to let air through. The Sun
We get to the office full of high resolve, only to watch the minutes and hours dribble away in unproductive activity.
In fact, the unproductive vast amount of agricultural set-aside land could be used to grow oil-seed rape to feed all types of engines.
He went on to explain that the previous bubble was caused by borrowing low-cost capital for investment in unproductive activities, particularly for speculative purposes.
What could be a nicer way to spend an idle day - and being career leftists, it is safe to assume most of their days are unproductive - than preening and posturing in the dock while reporters take down their every egomaniacal word?
Failure to invoke sanctions may lead to a loss of management control and unproductive employee behavior. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
Thus, a certain faction of the left engages in the very same behavior they accuse the right of regarding Iran, etc. Ironic and unproductive at the same time. Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
If those billions of borrowed euro were diverted into productive rather than unproductive capacity what would happen?
Their land was unproductive because their goal was to farm areas that were waste or common. The English Civil War: A People's History
Some government planners anticipate a policy that encourages people to vacate marginal or unproductive land, with the possible end of food assistance as one inducement to relocation.

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