| Trying to make ourselves stronger than everyone else is surely an unproductive, ultimately fruitless endeavor. |
| The early Greeks in their struggle for survival distinguished primarily between fruit-bearing trees and unproductive ones. |
| Of course the credits pose an inconvenient problem as they are unproductive and equally a turn-off. |
| There has been an increasingly unproductive debate on the difference between modernism and postmodernism. |
| Holding onto profits might lead to excessive executive compensation, sloppy management, and unproductive use of assets. |
| Nonetheless, a number of studies suggest that at least diphthongization and nasal and lateral depalatalization may be unproductive in Spanish. |
