Sentences with phrase «dismissed as a waste of time»

Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time.

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Ironically, pressuring them to achieve, scheduling them to the max, and dismissing unstructured play as a waste of time is not only not helping our kids, it's actually harming them.

Only a few years ago, Parliamentary select committees were often dismissed as distracting sideshows — comparable in terms of wasted time to Parliamentary Questions.

But in the London Assembly the mayor faced calls for a probe which Johnson turned around and dismissed as a «complete waste of time and money».

While I'm reluctant to dismiss this far from shallow effort as a complete waste of time, I honestly feel that will be most viewers» guilty reaction to having carved out 95 minutes for this.

It is important for teachers to take their students» gaming seriously, rather than disrespectfully dismiss their playing as a waste of time, and to respect both the time that goes into game playing and the learning that comes out of it.

The SeaWorld legal team dismissed the case as a waste of time, the BBC reported, but Jeffrey Kerr, who represents the orcas and PETA, said:

She completely dismissed social media as «a waste of time», without any understanding of how and why it works.