Struggling against them is equally non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Cara Barker: The Problem With Fear] Reference
You're perfectly correct that this argument is non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: Experience Argument Is Really About The Clintons' Power] Reference
That's why these discussions are so sterile and non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
And the non-productive soil is virtually devoid of organic matter. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The war poured trillions of non-productive dollars down a rat hole. From Wordnik.com. [Art Brodsky: Lions Coach Up Steelers on Stimulus Package] Reference
Is there anyway to ban these inflammatory, non-productive commenters?. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Candidate In Mississippi House Race Uses Obama In Attack Ad] Reference
Putting in more non-productive tax cuts angered a lot of progressives. From Wordnik.com. [Art Brodsky: Obama Had To Try Bipartisanship This Time -- Next Time Will Be Different] Reference
He maintains Cuba does not need this type of "non-productive" investment. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO DESCRIBES HIS PLANS FOR CUBA] Reference
People with disabilities are stereotyped as dependent and non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Eventually, it becomes a black dwarf, cold and energyless and non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Dark Star"] Reference
For example, "I forgive myself for judging myself as non-productive and stuck.". From Wordnik.com. [Maddisen K. Krown: Ask Maddisen: How to Rise from the Ashes of Divorce] Reference
People with disabilities are often stereotyped as dependent and non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But those non-productive persons are consumers and are the most active consumers. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
Transplantation of Juncus rigidus in the saline and non-productive lands of Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
R400-million annually from non-productive activities to improve equipment and resources. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But we have manifold confessions that it is not commonly thus with the non-productive poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
(Maybe if we got rid of all those non-productive financial "laborers" it would get simpler.). From Wordnik.com. [In the Dark: A Good Prosecutor Would've Pinned Greenspan Down] Reference
Sports might be criticised by some because they represent non-productive expenditure of energy. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
And, as in all capitalist societies, this human labour power is exploited by a non-productive, ruling. From Wordnik.com. [1. APARTHEID AND THE BLACK WORKING CLASS - THE PROBLEM DEFINED] Reference
At this time, with regard to Federal Leases, rental payment is already being made on non-productive leases. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Romm: McCain's Cruel Offshore Drilling Hoax] Reference
Observing that his volcanic interrogative eruption was non-productive he slowed down and repeated the questions. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
SCHIFF: One of the things that has to happen, we have to lose a lot of these non-productive service-sector jobs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2008] Reference
Many years ago I decided that listening to your ramblings was a very non-productive way to use my valuable time. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gerdy: Dear Rush, Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!] Reference
Reasonableness will destroy the enormously amusing, but totally non-productive back and forth in most of these threads. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Obama Slips Against McCain, Now Losing Among Independents] Reference
By adopting this plan, we will help discourage non-productive micro-management by senior department and agency officials. From Wordnik.com. [National Performance Review Report Chapter] Reference
Without these symptoms the economy will still be burdened by mountains of non-productive debt and unable to move forward. From Wordnik.com. [Garrett Johnson: Two Years Later and None the Wiser] Reference
That is, we have a Massachusetts enclosed within our farms which is non-productive as far as direct returns are concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915] Reference
So it is, in fact, important that we continue to pressure them to play a productive role in Iraq, not a non-productive one. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2008] Reference
The entire force of a store is sometimes arbitrarily divided by the management into "productive," and "non-productive" help. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Earning and Education] Reference
Our industrial system has resulted in almost stultifying men economically and making most of them economically non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come] Reference
The industry in this country is spending countless billions and billions of dollars for pollution control that is non-productive. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Herman Talmadge, July 29 and August 1, 1975. Interview A-0331-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
One can predict that increasing taxes on the productive and funding the non-productive will result in a significant economic downturn. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Inspires Many to Participate in Politics, but on His Terms] Reference
Outsourcing will end when all the wealth is sucked out of the productive countries and is sitting idle in the non-productive countries. From Wordnik.com. [Confirmed: Adobe To Cut 9 Percent Of Workforce] Reference
The Federal Government is fighting land invasion by rural workers by settling them in non-productive areas thus increasing deforestation. From Wordnik.com. [Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil] Reference
In my heart, I continue to believe that WE are far better than this despite OUR continued consumption of non-productive chatter and worse. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Johnny Benjamin: Dr. Laura, Palin & Limbaugh Inc.'s Rhetoric Sadly Resonates with Many Americans] Reference
America will never give up the hope that eventually all nations can, with mutual confidence, drastically reduce these non-productive expenditures. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
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