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Both, however, see inter-war housing policy as unhelpful to these methods, increasing the size of the estates and the role of male planners.
As so frequently happens these days, the book's title is unhelpful, designed as much for promotion as illumination.
Legislative supremacy is unhelpful because the alternative to judicial invalidation of statutes is judicial r ulemaking.
Indeed, the use of the term ' conservative ' in this article is in this respect unhelpful.
The overall layout of the book is at times unhelpful: tables and diagrams spill into margins and generally look cramped and untidy.
However, to say that this solution is "generally rejected by academics and politicians" is vague and unhelpful.
Even more unhelpful is the claim that ' populist promised, and sometimes delivered, a better life for the masses ' (p. 6).
The case of the unhelpful subordinates is not as far-fetched as it may first appear.
The next is more sympathetic but his suggestions are unhelpful.
The glossary is a useful addition, but the 'exercises' section, which is in principle a useful concept, is in fact sensationalist and unhelpful.
No evidence was found of girls referring to their graphic scores as unhelpful.
My own view is that it is unhelpful to conflate these issues, which are logically independent.
Few dichotomies have been more unhelpful than this.
In understanding the significance of what is classified as a ' crime against humanity ', double standards are unhelpful to scholarship.
He does respond with generous material help, but it proves to be ultimately unhelpful.
Either way the "fundamental principle of modern bioethical thought" is unhelpful.
Reducing the environmental influence to that of a "mere constraint" seems unhelpful and of breathtaking simplicity.
The design of studies is bedevilled by the unhelpful counterposition of innate and cultural explanations, such that only the most extreme hypotheses can be disconfirmed.
Words were generally unhelpful, while gestures, both musical and non-musical, were.
Seemingly at opposite poles, both are, in the most important sense, unrealistic, and therefore unhelpful.
Standardized regression coefficients are not only unhelpful, they can be misleading.
Again, this is very unhelpful to the reader.
Investigation in the non pregnant condition has been found generally to be unhelpful in substantiating a diagnosis of cervical weakness.
Other readers may find the book's lack of focus unhelpful.
The information is brief enough to be unhelpful, and a list of further reading would not have gone amiss.
Such wellmeaning but unhelpful analogies have resulted in more than one client developing a sleeping disorder.
The second is their perception of the impact of these helpful and unhelpful prognostic communications on hope.
The first paragraph of section 13.6 is particularly opaque and unhelpful, especially to the beginner.
A chronology for women's work based on enclosure, the decline of handicraft manufacturing, and the exacerbation of rural poverty therefore seems most unhelpful.
The notion of a 'first-line treatment' for all patients of a certain type or age is unhelpful and misleading.
We find the notion of an unconscious belief unhelpful.
When the pulmonary arteries are small, however, echocardiography may be unhelpful in this regard.
The book's insights could help problematise the unhelpful liberalism/fundamentalism and choice/coercion paradigms that palpably frame this topical issue.
The classical model is unhelpful when vagueness is a problem-when there are statements which are neither clearly tr ue nor clearly false.
The unfriendly and unhelpful public health system discriminated against and embarrassed young people who suffered from venereal diseases and those who asked for condoms.
In this situation, the criterion of morpho-syntactic replacement is unhelpful.
Similarly, there were a number of common themes related to communications perceived to be decidedly unhelpful.
Both helpful and unhelpful communication traits are categorized in the table.
The authors state that a clear vision should be articulated, and that: 'vague mission statements, strong on superlatives but weak on critical analysis are unhelpful'.
Waiting was hated, and older boys felt that receptionists were unhelpful and did not respect privacy.
Widows who viewed their families as unhelpful were at greater risk after bereavement than those who viewed their families as helpful.
The unhelpful interventions of the dissident medical practitioner would therefore have been unwelcome.
The word "justice" does not appear in his original proposal, and its use in his reply is unhelpful to his argument.
The discussion in this two-page section is sketchy, inaccurate, inconclusive, and essentially unhelpful.
Medications that have proved unhelpful are described.
A self-maintaining cycle may then become established, where negative thoughts lead to painful feelings, further changes in physiological arousal and unhelpful behaviour, such as avoidance or withdrawal.
However, spatial frequency is not the same thing as image size (the distance across an image), so spatial frequency models are unhelpful for general models of size perception.
Clinical examination of patients in the early stages of heart failure may be unhelpful, while patients in the advanced stage of the condition may have more marked clinical signs.
However, this is often unhelpful.
In the face of such complexities, it is unhelpful to divide the study of music itself from the study of its social, technological and temporal forms.
Class and privilege saturate the social history of literature, but it is unhelpful to interpret the reception of modernism as class conflict continued by other means.
The section on emotional psychopathy, in which a great deal too much space is allowed to the primitive and unhelpful formulations of the law, is, on the other hand, disappointing.
The key to such studies is, of course, to link the setting with the intellectual output it produced; without this the result will be largely descr iptive, and hence unhelpful.
Conversely, the very exactness of some binary decisions can be unhelpful if the expected range of values for some attribute of an application crosses a critical threshold.
The study showed that experienced doctors have the ability to distinguish between relevant and non-relevant data and that unnecessary data can be confusing, unhelpful or are sometimes dangerous.
However, she found that these and other established categories were inadequate, since overlapping concerns, unexpected differences, varying networks, and much movement between communities rendered them unhelpful.
A similar pattern was observed in terms of unhelpful responses, where volunteers were clearer about how stressful interactions could worsen the outlook for people with mental health problems.
The most important of these was a lack of inter-departmental co-operation, an unsympathetic and unhelpful attitude among staff, and a narrow interpretation of government guidelines on training and grants.
However, as was the case with secondary musicians, there was a polarisation of opinion with a significant minority (30 staff) rating the reports as either not very helpful or unhelpful.
Moreover, having distinct bands in a profile chart for multi-element retainer sets with all but one element in common could be unhelpful, giving an unduly fragmented view of the heap.
Although the bibliography lists sources consulted for each chapter, the considerable overlap between sources and chapters (items are listed only once) means that this is often unhelpful.
Blood tests in elderly people and their interpretation unhelpful tests in elderly people.
The objectivist advice is entirely unhelpful.
To see this, we should note that the unhelpful singers, resentful captain, and unhelpful subordinates would never sincerely use normative language to describe the behavior of other participants.
Accordingly, to express costs in terms of the time occupied by the trial would be misleading and unhelpful.
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I am glad that he thought the debate has been not unhelpful.
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I hear some sedentary interventions behind me of a not unhelpful kind.
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Perhaps he will accept that this is an intervention intended to be not entirely unhelpful.
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At the same time, it would be wrong and unhelpful to be reducing the kind of salaries one wants to pay.
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I consider, therefore, that publication of estimates of future energy consumption would be unhelpful at the present time.
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I think it is inadequate, unhelpful and extremely rude.
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Here is another newspaper cutting which says a little more, though it has chosen rather unhelpful detail as newspapers very often do.
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However, the law perhaps enables some local authorities to be over-rigid and unhelpful.
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I believe that the generic trained approach could prove to be not only administratively inefficient but in many instances unhelpful to the client.
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Therefore, it is pointless and unhelpful to try to lump them together.
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Indeed, it could be positively unhelpful for all concerned to impose a rule to this effect.
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I am not trying to be unhelpful in any way.
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We continue to regard the change as inconsequential and unhelpful.
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My fifth point is that the professional bureaucracy that goes with joint boards is also unhelpful.
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In cases where there is a difference of opinion between the child and the parents, it would be very unhelpful to exacerbate that difference.
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I do not have a scientific background, and being bombarded by arguments from both sides is sometimes unhelpful.
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If they were so unnecessary and unhelpful then, what has changed?
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We set off a syndrome called seasonal, affective disorder by way of unhelpful response.
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There could well be occasions where such consultation would achieve nothing except an unhelpful delay.
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I am a little worried about automatically granting a backdated sentence when a person may have been positively unhelpful.
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Other components have been found to be false, or unhelpful.
Such research is sometimes described as scholarship but the distinction seems to me questionable and in any case unhelpful.
To the extent that the global story detracts from the need to find local solutions to local problems, it is unhelpful.
In a world of scarce resources, it is unhelpful to proceed from the premise that all resources are equally valuable.
He takes this stance because he finds it unhelpful for applied work where we often face the joint problems of theory testing and model selection.
Perhaps as many as eighty more readings come later, though exactly how many is hard to tell on account of an unhelpful index.
One clue as to why bioethics is sometimes, perhaps often, unhelpful lies in the observation that many people are morally wise though not ethically learned.
Diagnostic tests have improved, but are unhelpful during certain stages of infection.
More important, the elusiveness of the definition of "niche construction" is unhelpful.
To begin with, the use of probabilistic laws to describe sound changes is unhelpful in that it obscures the relationship between synchrony and diachrony.
We can similarly imagine a legal system of unhelpful subordinates.
There is also unhelpful ambiguity over ill-health and disability.
Conversely, once the definitions have been selected, it is potentially confusing, and unhelpful, not to use them uniformly.
Only a few niggles: using rehearsal letters to identify key points is unhelpful for the general reader.
Indeed, my main argument is that, through no apparent fault of its own, the work possesses a rather negative and unhelpful subtext.
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