Sentences with phrase «largely wasted effort»

are largely wasted effort.

That means that brain - training programs, intelligence - exercising puzzles, or other efforts to increase IQ in general are largely wasted effort (becoming a subject area expert is another matter entirely).

They are largely wasting their effort.

Not exact matches

Sanchez is hungry for titles and plays for an unambitious (relatively speaking) manager, and Ozil is the king of assists who sees his efforts largely go to waste..

Their methods are largely a waste of time and money, and some can even be dangerous and add years onto detox efforts.

Director Jan de Bont, who gave us the enjoyable popcorn films Speed and Twister, does the best he can, sparing no expense or effort to make the film scary and thrilling, but the script and largely boring characters have so little development that the $ 80 million spent on the film has gone to waste.

Her efforts were largely focused in her home state of Michigan, where 80 percent of state charter schools are run by for - profit entities with little transparency around how those schools spend public money, and charter and traditional schools are wasting scarce resources competing for students.

This sounds like a lot of work, I know, but consider how much effort you've put into things that were largely a waste of your time?

When I interviewed Solis a few years ago for the Sierra Club's magazine, Sierra, she talked about the air pollution and toxic - waste problems that have plagued her neighborhood for decades; the myth that minorities don't care about the environment; the efforts of her immigrant father — a union shop steward in Mexico — to get safety equipment for his coworkers; and her own push to create parkland in her largely Hispanic and Asian working - class Southern California district.

I tend to think that lamentation makes an unlovely sound and is largely a waste of time and effort.