Sentences with word «nonproductive»

For investment to rise quickly, there almost certainly has to be either a rise in unsold inventory as exports drop or a rise in nonproductive investment into infrastructure.

«Science questions must be addressed before the United States and its allies embark on a path as nonproductive as that of the Kyoto Protocol.»

Freeing up much needed seed capital to make the economy grow instead of making nonproductive investments is the key to prosperity.

I think this country does need some sort of cutting - edge economic instrument to reduce government spending in nonproductive areas, but I don't think these flat (t) axes are the way to go at all.

A type of asthma, known as cough variant asthma, has main symptoms of nonproductive cough and often is not accompanied by other classic symptoms of asthma.

If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.

A meaningful program should include texts that lead to positive life outcomes and provide a roadmap that can help students resist nonproductive behaviors.

A 2008 report by researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz stated, «Home computers may increase high school graduation rates by reducing nonproductive activities, such as truancy and crime, among children in addition to making it easier to complete school assignments.»

Symptoms include nonproductive vomiting and progressive weakness.

Symptoms of bloat include nonproductive vomiting, drooling, restlessness, and a tight and painful abdomen.

«I work with clients who wish to reduce stress, eliminate anxiety and unnecessary fears, end nonproductive habits such as smoking, eliminate fears and phobias, reduce depression, optimize healthy habits, and attain goals.

Not only does Cluster Scheduling allow you to schedule your clients as close to their desired time slots as possible, it also increases appointment frequency, reducing nonproductive time.

Commuting costs an average of $ 2,600 per year, and nonproductive hours spent sitting in traffic has been shown to increase stress.

The salesperson who demonstrates marketing savvy and refuses to comply with nonproductive, time - wasting suggestions will survive the real estate decade ahead.

In addition, a lot of money has been spent on infrastructure, but a huge number of projects have been stalled — India has more than $ 500 billion in nonproductive infrastructure assets, including unfinished roads and bridges.

Suddenly a business that has been cruising along with a nice conservative debt - to - equity ratio may have a couple million dollars or more in nonproductive debt, just as it would if it had been purchased in a leveraged buyout.

The logical extension of applying economic value to human life is euthanasia - killing nonproductive members of society.

Inappropriate or nonproductive questions are not attuned to the speaker's needs.

During the dry and nonproductive season, they vinedressers allow the branches to grow along the ground — but not produce fruit.

Hence, the deliberate and nonproductive spilling of semen was equivalent to the deliberate destruction of human life.

The element of fire helps us focus on what it is we value, while eliminating nonproductive energy we may accumulate over time.

Searching for esoteric clues like diaphragm is usually nonproductive, but like most parents, the need to be exhaustive is not wrong.

On the other hand, if you have been training for at least six months, you have probably realized that sticking to a full range of motion means that there's a lot of nonproductive motion during an exercise.

«Today we are on the battlefield of an ugly, nonproductive war on charters, all while children are stuck in underperforming public schools,» said Joseph DiSalvo, a former San Jose teacher and current member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education, which serves as an appeal board for charters rejected by school districts in the San Jose area.

Nonproductive mining companies aren't required to pay the minimum $ 20 tax.

Gastric dilatation and volvulus syndrome (GDV), known as bloat, occurs in dogs when the stomach dilates and twists into an abnormal position, causing nonproductive retching, a bloated abdomen, and other symptoms.

She's covered the New York Comic Con for NonProductive since 2009 and writes about everything from responsible pet ownership to comic books to the manner in which smart phones are changing the way people shop.

Haim Harari, a physicist and former president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, writes of the «edge of the circle» in referring to today's polarized, and largely nonproductive, policy fights:

I realize this will sound nonproductive as a response, but my stalled elevator speech would be that we need to stop providing energy to a world that has grown too populous and that theh world, like it or not — and I know nobody is going to like what I am going to say — must stop its current way of life and go back 300 years or so to a lifestyle without energy grids or consumer product planning and manufacturing groups.

«We're hoping to encourage changes in roadside management practices, how public lands are managed and how people are managing what they would call nonproductive land or marginal land that they might own.»

Lawyers who avoid nonproductive commutes by working at home or in nearby suburban satellite offices would either have a higher quality of life or be able to bill more hours.

You want to «save your energy and breath,» instead of engaging in nonproductive dialogues with your child.

The company intranet provides them with quick access to customized marketing materials and a targeted distribution system, saving them hours of nonproductive work time.

They produce a variety of destructive problems and nonproductive life orientations.

In our Peace Room, an adult helps upset students focus on structured problem - solving without distractions, do assigned classroom work, and interrupt a pattern of nonproductive behavior.