It's mean, unconstructive and intended to cause the subject anger or pain.
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Insistence on extracting payment from PREPA itself are unconstructive and unlikely to succeed.
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On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Russia to "cease its unconstructive behaviour" there.
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The "deployment crowd" accused the "innovation crowd" of fostering delay by casting unconstructive doubt on current technologies and policies.
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In a public address Thursday, Putin accused Canada of playing "unconstructive political games" and derided Browder as a criminal.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a strongly worded statement that the United States' position on the incident was "unconstructive and inarticulate".
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He said the deportation of Iranian diplomats was "unfriendly and unconstructive" and said Iran has the right to take reciprocal measures.
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We also believe unconstructive comments, let alone threats, are not helpful and will not get us any closer to a solution.
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"Unconstructive comments, let alone threats ... will not get us any closer to a solution," spokesman Alexander Winterstein told a news conference on Friday.
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His views are so unconstructive from what i'm used to doing, so I can't imagine if he even knows what house music is.
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This is not intended as unconstructive censure in turn, but rather an alternative viewpoint on how ex-professionals might affect and change the game.
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It has banned political activities, including gatherings of more than five people, and accorded itself the power to stop the publication of news it considers unconstructive or misleading.
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"The new U.S. administration has the potential to destabilize further the region ... The U.S. President has taken positions that are unconstructive and could even escalate conflict," it said.
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"We find that a very unconstructive move," the Chinese government's top diplomat, State Councilor Wang Yi, told reporters in Washington after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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For years, in climate circles, those calling for more R&D were pitted in an utterly unconstructive battle against those calling for more deployment of existing clean energy technologies.
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"Today, palliative care consultants at the hospital have had a lengthy, difficult and (sadly but understandably in the dreadful circumstances) unconstructive meeting with the parents," the hospital's legal document said.
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In February, New Zealand urged Chinese restraint after Beijing's apparent deployment of an advanced missile system on a South China Sea island, while Beijing said New Zealand's proposal was "unconstructive".
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Last year, for the first time, the EU did not issue a statement at the UN Human Rights Council after it was blocked by Greece for its "unconstructive criticism of China".
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BEIJING – China&aposs Defense Ministry on Thursday criticized as "unconstructive" Washington&aposs withdrawal of an invitation for it to participate in a multinational naval exercise the U.S. is hosting this summer.
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"We hope the two countries can objectively view the historical developments of the South China Sea, not neglect the facts, and not put forward proposals that are unconstructive," Hong told reporters.
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A Greek foreign ministry official said Athens blocked the statement, calling it "unconstructive criticism of China" and said separate EU talks with China outside the U.N. were a better avenue for discussions.
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Eventually we found out the reason no one wanted her wasn't because she can't dance on her bum leg, but because she never shuts up and offers all sorts of unconstructive suggestions.
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After the bilateral meeting in Singapore, Wu Qian, China's defense ministry spokesman, told reporters that while the talks were constructive, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe had flagged "unconstructive" U.S. words and actions over Taiwan.
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The Pentagon on Wednesday disinvited China from a major U.S.-hosted naval drill in response to what it sees as Beijing's militarization of islands in the South China Sea, a decision China called unconstructive.
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So far the Iranians are reserving judgment, but their tone has not been positive: Tehran said it will give a "decisive response" to France, Germany and the UK's "unconstructive" triggering of the JCPOA mechanism.
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Earlier on Monday, the State Department said Pompeo had called on Russia to cease what he called its "unconstructive behavior" by supporting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and condemned Russian military support for his government.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday and called on Russia "to cease its unconstructive behavior" in Venezuela, State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said in a statement.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday uninvited China from a major U.S.-hosted naval drill in response to what it sees as Beijing's militarization of islands in the South China Sea, a decision China called unconstructive.
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The idea that we have been divided, manipulated and turned against each other in ways that are deliberate and unconstructive and we don't have to write whole communities off and we can do something about that.
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In today's society, we're conditioned from a very young age to think that making mistakes is an awful thing, thus resulting in the unconstructive pressure of trying to achieve a realm of perfection that's simply not possible.
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"We also make use of this opportunity to strongly emphasize our expectation that companies centered in third countries refrain from supporting ... this unconstructive Greek Cypriot attitude which also constitutes a major obstacle to the settlement of the Cyprus issue," it said.
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Alyssa was especially harsh on The Vixen's team, who didn't seem like they'd prepared as much as Asia's team, even though Asia and Eureka were at odds on account of Eureka never shutting up and offering all sorts of unconstructive suggestions.
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"We regret the unconstructive stance taken by our counterparts in the United States and, of course, we cannot afford to leave unfriendly, and sometimes hostile steps towards us without retaliation," presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
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"In this way, as a result of the violation of the terms of the treaty and Turkey's unconstructive actions, a dangerous precedent has been set for uncontrolled activities by one of the signatories of the Open Skies treaty," Russian defence ministry official Sergei Ryzhkov said.
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" China's response: At a press conference with Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called the decision "very unconstructive.
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"The parties are working closely and jointly in order to accelerate Oi's in-court reorganization plan and thwart any unconstructive proposal that could potentially generate noise in the process," the person said, adding that bondholders are interested in a solution that involves swapping part of their debts into equity of the revamped company.
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In October 2013, in an interview with Dnevnik, Ivan Kostov expressed the opinion that Peevski was certainly being demonized and took issue with the personal attacks against him, viewing them as unconstructive and not in line with European values.
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The creek was affected by the Floods of 1998 causing property damage and unconstructive erosion to the creek bed. In March 2001, the San Antonio Water System's Salado Creek WRC began using recycled water to help the creek flow regularly for the first time in almost ten years.
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Herbert argued that Thurmond's means of opposing the civil rights legislation in the 1950s was unconstructive and instead if he were in the Senate he would express to the country how the blacks were benefited by white rule. Herbert's campaign was little more than token opposition as Thurmond racked up a huge victory and won another term because he did not have an opponent in the general election.
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On 4 February 2019 a redesigned website was introduced, stylistically simpler with the intention that it would work better on mobile phones. At the same time, the capability for readers to write comments was removed because "too often the exchanges below-the-line became unpleasant and unconstructive". The site planned instead to engage with readers through surveys, noting that a previous survey showed that responders were "largely pro-Corbyn, pro-EU".
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Crimea is Russia." Romanovich, who saw the influence of the Ukrainian- Canadian community, said Canadian actions in response to the Crimea crisis were unnecessarily provocative, and that Russia would match each round of sanctions with new measures of its own, as they had just sanctioned 13 Canadian Parliamentarians, government officials and the head of the Ukrainian- Canadian Congress the previous day. "Our relations with Canada are not just unconstructive, they’re poor.
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Iran, which had attended the 2009 International Afghanistan Conference in The Hague but stayed away from the conference in London, criticized the "paternalistic" decisions that were made. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said they would "undermine the independence and national sovereignty of nations". Iran refused to attend this conference because it was clear that there would be "behind-the-scenes scheming" and "certain countries" would make efforts to issue "an unconstructive statement" on Afghanistan’s problems.
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Later members Alain Connes and Jean- Christophe Yoccoz also received the Fields Medal, in 1982 and 1994 respectively. The later practice of accepting scientific awards contrasted with some of the founders' views. During the 1930s, Weil and Delsarte petitioned against a French national scientific "medal system" proposed by the Nobel physics laureate Jean Perrin. Weil and Delsarte felt that the institution of such a system would increase unconstructive pettiness and jealousy in the scientific community.
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On Friday, 29 January 2016, a UN Peace Conference for Syria started in Geneva in Switzerland. At the first day, Syrian government and opposition refused to sit in the same room together. On 3 February 2016, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura suspended the peace talks. Russian foreign minister Lavrov commented that "the [Syrian] opposition took a completely unconstructive position and tried to put forward preconditions".‘Syria crisis plan: Cessation of hostilities, humanitarian airdrops, peace talks laid out in Munich’ .
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They also call for more freedom in Cuba's state controlled press and an end to what they consider Cuba's human rights violations. The PSRDC is extremely critical of Fidel Castro and the Communist Party apparatus describing the present government as "unrepresentative of the ideals of the Cuban Revolution". The party also condemns the role of the United States in the region, requesting that both Cubans and Americans overcome the compulsion to compare the merits and shortfalls of each system, describing such dialogue as unconstructive.
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It so happens that I have seen the bodies of numbers of > murdered men – I don't mean killed in battle, I mean murdered. Therefore I > have some conception of what murder means – the terror, the hatred, the > howling relatives, the post-mortems, the blood, the smells. To me murder is > something to be avoided. > Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a single glance; and > after all he is a completely negative, unconstructive amoral writer, a mere > Jonah, a passive accepter of evil, a sort of Whitman among the corpses.
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It is particularly opposed to the sanctions regime, which they say disproportionally affect vulnerable groups. It lobbies the Department for Work and Pensions and politicians about problems with the benefit system. In 2014 it identified systematic errors in moving claimants from Incapacity Benefit on to Employment and Support Allowance. This error was condemned by the Public Accounts Committee in 2018 who said it stemmed from a string of avoidable management failures. The Association told the committee that the department could be “unconstructive” when confronted with legitimate concerns by outside organisations.
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He made his Ligue 1 debut on 6 August, coming on as a second half substitute in a 1–3 home defeat against Olympique Lyonnais. Gomis joined Nottingham Forest in January 2014, on loan for the remainder of the campaign. He made his only appearance for the English on 8 March, starting and being booked in a 0–1 loss at Barnsley for the Football League Championship, being subsequently left out of the selection reckoning reportedly due to caretaker manager Gary Brazil's opinion that his attitude was unconstructive.
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Depression is linked with a hyperactive right hemisphere, with evidence of selective involvement in "processing negative emotions, pessimistic thoughts and unconstructive thinking styles", as well as vigilance, arousal and self-reflection, and a relatively hypoactive left hemisphere, "specifically involved in processing pleasurable experiences" and "relatively more involved in decision-making processes". Additionally, "left hemisphere lesions result in an omissive response bias or error pattern whereas right hemisphere lesions result in a commissive response bias or error pattern." The delusional misidentification syndromes, reduplicative paramnesia and Capgras delusion are also often the result of right hemisphere lesions.
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The MHP, which was seen to have been punished for its perceivably unconstructive stance since June, halved their parliamentary representation from 80 to 40 and won 11.9% of the vote, while the HDP came third in terms of seats with 59 MPs despite coming fourth in terms of votes with 10.7%. The elections were broadly regarded as free and fair but were overshadowed by the violence between the Turkish state and the PKK, with concern that the electoral victory may embolden President Erdoğan to further crackdown upon free speech.
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However, the ceasefire was short-lived. On 22 January, Hadi and Bahah tendered their resignations, saying circumstances in Yemen had been altered by the Houthi advance into the capital in September 2014; Bahah declared he resigned to "avoid being dragged into an abyss of unconstructive policies based on no law". While senior Houthi officials reportedly welcomed Hadi's resignation, a statement from the Houthi leadership said the country's parliament would have to approve it in order for it to become effective. The banner of the Houthis, with the slogan (in Arabic) "God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam".
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On 3 February, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura suspended the peace talks, until 25 February. A UN official said anonymously that de Mistura had probably suspended the talks because the UN did not want to be associated with the Syrian government’s military advance against rebels north of Aleppo, backed by Russian airstrikes. Staffan de Mistura insisted that negotiations had not failed and would resume on 25 February.Syria conflict: UN suspends peace talks in Geneva Russian foreign minister Lavrov commented that "the [Syrian] opposition took a completely unconstructive position and tried to put forward preconditions".‘Syria crisis plan: Cessation of hostilities, humanitarian airdrops, peace talks laid out in Munich’.
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In 1939 Lawrence Durrell, British novelist who was living in Corfu, Greece, invited Miller to Greece. Miller described the visit in The Colossus of Maroussi (1941), which he considered his best book. One of the first acknowledgments of Henry Miller as a major modern writer was by George Orwell in his 1940 essay "Inside the Whale", where he wrote: > Here in my opinion is the only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest > value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. > Even if that is objected to as an overstatement, it will probably be > admitted that Miller is a writer out of the ordinary, worth more than a > single glance; and after all, he is a completely negative, unconstructive, > amoral writer, a mere Jonah, a passive acceptor of evil, a sort of Whitman > among the corpses.
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The treaty, ratified by Russia′s parliament in October 2016, grants Russia′s personnel and their family members jurisdictional immunity and other privileges as envisaged by Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. In September 2015, Russia′s warships of the Black Sea Fleet reached the area of eastern Mediterranean. At the end of September, a joint information centre in Baghdad was set up by Iran, Iraq, Russia and Syria to coordinate their operations against ISIL (in the newsmedia the centre is also referred to as "Joint Operations Room in Baghdad known as the 4 + 1" implying the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah, in addition to the 4 states). According to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov′s statement made in mid-October 2015, prior to the start of its operations in Syria, Russia invited the United States to join the Baghdad- based information center but received what he called an "unconstructive" response.
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The Resolution, in Paragraph 2, "calls upon the Government of Lebanon and UNIFIL as authorized by paragraph 11 to deploy their forces together throughout the South." Paragraph 11 then states that Security Council decided: "that the [UNIFIL II] force shall, in addition to carrying out its mandate under resolutions 425 and 426 (1978): ... (b) Accompany and support the Lebanese armed forces as they deploy throughout the South, including along the Blue Line ... (c) Coordinate its activities related to paragraph 11(b) with the Government of Lebanon and the Government of Israel ...." Complicating matters, Syria threatened to close their border with Lebanon if UN troops were sent in. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also warned that deploying foreign troops along the border would be a "hostile" act against Syria. "At the moment we are seeing some very unconstructive signals from Syria," Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
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At the end of September 2015, a joint information centre in Baghdad was set up by Iran, Iraq, Russia and Syria to coordinate their operations against ISIL. According to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov's statement made in mid-October 2015, prior to the start of its operations in Syria, Russia invited the U.S. to join the Baghdad-based information center but received what he called an "unconstructive" response. Putin's proposal that the U.S. receive a high-level Russian delegation and that a U.S. delegation arrive in Moscow to discuss co-operation in Syria was likewise declined by the U.S. Following an official request from the Syrian government for martial help against rebel and jihadist groups in Syria, the coalition started its work. It was generally thought that Iran would play a leading role in the ground operations of Syria's army and allies, whilst Russia would be leading in the air in conjunction with the Syrian air force, thereby establishing a complementary role.
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New Zealand was due to host a 2010 World Cup qualifying match between Fiji and New Zealand, but denied entry to the Fiji team's main goalkeeper, Simione Tamanisau, due to the latter's fiancée's father being a member of the Fijian military."Fiji match pulled over visa row", BBC, 12 October 2007"Media statement: New Zealand vs. Fiji match" , Oceania Football Confederation, 12 October 2007 In June 2008, Bainimarama stated that New Zealand and Australia were not genuinely trying to "move Fiji forward"; he described their pressure and demands as "insincere, hypocritical, unconstructive and obstructionist". He also stated that New Zealand and Australia "are condescending, hold neo-colonialist views and fail to recognise that Fiji is a sovereign state which needs to be treated with dignity and respect"."Australia 'insincere, hypocritical and obstructionist': Bainimarama", Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June 2008 Bainimarama added that "Australia and New Zealand are bent on sabotaging the efforts of the interim Government in building strong and accountable institutions" for Fiji."Fiji's Interim PM Questions Forum Group's Merit", Solomon Times, 20 June 2008 Clark has said New Zealand will ease sanctions in Fiji once progress towards democracy becomes apparent.
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Barack Obama meets with Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria, September 29, 2015. Shortly after the start of the Syrian Civil War in the spring of 2011, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria's government and urged president Bashar al-Assad to resign; meanwhile, Russia, a long-standing ally of Syria, continued and increased its support for the Syrian government against rebels backed up by the U.S. and its regional allies. On September 30, 2015, Russia began the air campaign in Syria on the side of the Syrian government headed by president Bashar al-Assad of Syria. According to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov's statement made in mid-October 2015, Russia had invited the U.S. to join the Baghdad-based information center set up by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia to coordinate their military efforts, but received what he called an "unconstructive" response; Putin's proposal that the U.S. receive a high-level Russian delegation and that a U.S. delegation arrive in Moscow to discuss co-operation in Syria was likewise declined by the U.S. In early October 2015, U.S. president Obama called the way Russia was conducting its military campaign in Syria a "recipe for disaster"; top U.S. military officials ruled out military cooperation with Russia in Syria.
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