| Every time I backed the car off the drive, for instance, it became unhelpfully scared of the camber in the road. |
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| When he unhelpfully insisted on surviving, the multi-talented Borgias produced brother Cesare to strangle him in his sickbed. |
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| Yet the notion of the thrusting career woman, starkly contrasted to the selfless home-maker, lurks unhelpfully in the background. |
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| He's pulled to his feet and stands vacantly and unhelpfully behind the coffin as it seesaws up the steps, carried by the royal family, in a confusion of priests and cameramen. |
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| This week is full up with appointments and social engagements, I'm sure of it, but I can hardly remember any specifics, my diary unhelpfully empty. |
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| Plans for an EU-Libya action plan on migration are quite rightly, if unhelpfully, frozen because of the Benghazi case, and they must not be unfrozen until there is a proper solution. |
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| It is fair to say that those words were of little comfort to me as I stood at the barbed-wire gates of Solsgirth Colliery on an unhelpfully cold March morning on my first picket line 20 years ago. |
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| A regulatory approach would inevitably impose a greater cost and administrative burden, notably on SMEs, and could unhelpfully constrain developments in a highly innovative field. |
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| However, the Committee found that many of the new definitions were unhelpfully vague and effectively undermined our ability to compile and analyse the necessary statistics. |
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| The Commission, has, unfortunately, already made its choice, Mr McCreevy, and contributed unhelpfully to the compromise between the two big groups. |
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