Sentences with phrase «for squandering»

After a point, there'll be no new tricks and nobody else to blame for the squandering of finite energy.

In a nutshell, the plan calls for squandering vast sums of taxpayer money to buy dubious «emission reductions» from other countries.

And conservatives will catch hell for squandering our blood and treasure in the Middle East for oil.

THE DVD Paramount releases D.A.R.Y.L. on DVD to unsuspecting nostalgia collectors in a clean 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer that nevertheless demonstrates director Simon Wincer's gift for squandering the widescreen format.

Jean Magloire, a health activist, faults many Haitians for squandering time and money playing dominoes and the Haitian lottery instead of saving up for or digging latrines themselves.

But in the next breath, he argued that Democratic office - holders, including Maloney, must take responsibility for squandering their Congressional majorities in 2009 and 2010 and, as he put it, failing to «deliver for the American people.»

I sometimes get mad at him for squandering chances but I also understand with his current situation.

You just said Brendan Rodgers spent # 200m in the last 2 transfers widow, and he did not meet the high expectations of the owners of Liverpool FC and thus got the sack for squandering the club's financial resources on transfers without matching it with the commensurate results on the field of play.

Yet it doesn't necessarily follow that Mayer is blameless for her squandering of goodwill.

However, any integrity he may possess is for me squandered by the patina of condescension, the Word - of - God certainty and strained patience towards the unenlightened reader that his columns often express, almost as if he dares his audience test his forbearance through disagreement.

Not exact matches

The Senate Armed Services Committee will most likely hold a hearing next month specifically to examine how the Pentagon squandered $ 12 million on direct costs and around $ 20 million in overhead for the gas station.

His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life of single - motherhood and squandered opportunities.

But Exxon's earnings are also a reminder of how, while some lawmakers are quick to join in the chorus of complaints about profitability, it is companies like Exxon that send the bags of cash to Washington for Congress to squander.

Such reactions reflect entrenched corporate biases — and squander opportunities for employers to connect with people who may well have the tools to do the job.

For example, if there is only 15 minutes before a scheduled commitment, people tend to squander those 15 minutes rather than doing something productive.

In developed countries, food is a plentiful resource we readily squander, yet our overproduction and underconsumption is ruinous for the world.

The move for full disclosure came in the wake of revelations that the public agency had squandered about $ 13 million in investments in rare coins.

Others may release assets for the sole purpose of buying a home, or dole out their children's inheritance slowly to prevent them from squandering their wealth or becoming complacent.

«The proposals before the commissioners today squander the opportunity for us to act in the best interest of investors,» she said.

How long you work with someone in this situation is a matter for further thought, but buy in is a valuable commodity and shouldn't be cavalierly squandered.

Equally problematic, a turnaround is an expensive substitute — in terms of squandered resources and the toll its takes on associates — for serial innovation.

She was progressive, urban, smart and tough — a natural replacement for a tired conservative government that had spent decades squandering and mismanaging Alberta's energy wealth.

Sure, the US has in the past had a competitive advantage in financial services but much of that has been squandered in recent years as the US reputation for financial management has taken an enormous hit to its credibility.

The company squandered its moment in the sun and ended up struggling with its core businesses and looking for new ideas under a series of CEOs — the latest being ex-Google executive Marissa Mayer.

But lest such a remarkable human resource like Filner be squandered by a party engaged in too many bold initiatives for overcoming blinkered pre-2009 conceptions of legality to keep track of, this George Will column shows us precisely where he is needed: at the head of the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Watching her squander Reagan's political legacy almost makes me wish for an estate tax.

Mayor LaGuardia may have condemned with harsh words the «boob» who squandered his money on the slots, but he also was looking out for him.

And here they have every opportunity for that to happen and they squander it every single time.

wonders why a party is being thrown for this wayward son who shamed the family name, insulted their father, and squandered his inheritance.

As for a going - out - of - business sale, the Post has editorially reminded the leaders that the churches are not theirs to squander in a spasm of guilt concocted to improve their public image.

The prodigal son, after he had squandered all his father's money on whores and a life of debauchery, finally ending up craving pig - slop for food, decides to return to his father and beg for a chance just to work as one of his hired hands.

This doesn't mean that we should squander our creativity trying to think up new gimmicks for evangelism, as so many do.

If this does not occur, then the more knowledge increases, the more it becomes a kind of inhuman knowing for the production of which man's self is squandered, pretty much as men were squandered for the building of the Pyramids, or as men were squandered in the Russian horn - bands to produce one note, neither more nor less.

If you wish to be no better than a robot then by all means squander your useless life away by being a heartless automaton that tries to find a logical reason for everything.

Alas, the movie completely squanders Rachel McAdams, a sin for which there can be no forgiveness.

Instead of squandering their earnings, they had purchased gifts for her, and furniture items.

I appreciated your comment, «You laugh, but I know you all also weep with me, that people have been martyred for our faith and we have squandered it in ignorance.»

You laugh, but I know you all also weep with me, that people have been martyred for our faith and we have squandered it in ignorance.

«So let us bear witness of the love of these poor — for in reality, in this form they are none other than the heavenly king who does not squander our gifts but returns them to us a hundredfold.

For all the blather about eternal life, far too many squander the precious life they are given at first breath.

We have been profligate with our natural capital, squandering it with no concern for its limits.

for example, that the dignity of all persons ought to be respected, that tolerance is a virtue and discrimination is abhorrent, that peaceful resolution of conflicts is superior to violence, that generally truth - telling is superior to lying, that democratic government is morally superior to totalitarianism and authoritarianism, that one ought to give a day's work for a day's pay, that saving for one's own and one's country's future is better than squandering one's income and relying on others to attend to one's future needs.

And we all stand back and watch as corrupt «social justice» «non profits» lobby the bureaucrats for more money and the government squanders our hard earned dollars.

In our hurry to advance are we not squandering our reserves to such an extent that our progress may be brought to a halt for lack of supplies?

Finally, there are nusus that stress the necessity for balance in a society by emphasizing the prohibition of israf (squandering) and the renunciation of poverty, thus providing subsistence for every individual.

I wish they'd told us exactly why it is reckless for God to love us: because we squander that love on a daily basis.

Mitt Romney, although a good and decent man, is not qualified to be the President of the United States, and LDS (Mormon) members who vote for him strictly because he is a member of our church should be ashamed of squandering their precious freedom to choose.

If we though for more than two milliseconds that most of the health care money wouldn't be squandered, then I'd be all for it.

There are a few horror stories out there of nonprofits that have squandered donations on big bonuses for CEOs or fancy advertising.

The youngest son asks his father for his share of the estate, sets off for a distant land and squanders his wealth in wild living.