| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Every time I backed the car off the drive, for instance, it became unhelpfully scared of the camber in the road. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
