Even if the theatre is morally innocuous, Rousseau argues, its presence is disruptive to potentially productive use of time.

The emigration of these potentially productive citizens emphasized Haiti's ambivalent attitude toward their Diaspora.

Still, these have been potentially productive days in the evolution of Iran's cautious opening to the United States.

Here, metanoia is viewed as a potentially productive process, and therefore patients' psychotic episodes are not necessarily always to be thwarted.

But its emphasis on working-class culture, and distinction from labour socialism and the tradition of parliamentary representation, is a potentially productive one.

Mixing the familiar and the foreign, new and potentially productive connections may be taking place in a number of areas.

But a quarter-century of occupation, violence and neglect has run down infrastructure, bled capital and wasted potentially productive lives.

Ergo, developing ideas about measures of performance, feedback and control mechanisms is arguably the most important and potentially productive part of the exercise.

Local officials were not eager to expel potentially productive settlers who could help improve the colonies, and the squatters were generally left alone.

"That would appear to be a potentially productive course of action."