Sentences with phrase «like wasted effort»

To the untrained eye, making something of the narrow, windowless space would have seemed like a wasted effort.

While this may seem like a wasted effort, the reality is that many job offers and hires don't quite work out the way the employer expected.

The Monster Trucks feel like a wasted effort.

With this option gone, Project Origin's online functionality feels like a wasted effort.

It may sound like a wasted effort to a successful, mainstream writer.

The positive message behind Mercy Streets is good for the entire family, but it seems like wasted effort when the vessel for the message isn't entirely appropriate for all audiences.

It made the combat a little too chaotic not to mention the fact that even if you didn't really execute all of the moves, you attacks could still connect even if they didn't do much damage, so it felt like a wasted effort.

Not exact matches

To many, our prank may seem like a waste of time and effort, as there is no immediate commercial benefit, but I have always felt a sense of humour and the ability not to take oneself too seriously are important attributes for any company.

Obsessing over how many followers and likes you get, and how high your Klout score is, are all time - and effort - wasting mistakes businesses make, Poston says.

If marketers don't get it right we may end up with another wasted effort like the «voice of the customer» work that was popular a decade ago.

b) We have a do - nothing, fractured Congress that won't address key issues like immigration or tax reform, but has wasted time and taxpayer money 65 + times in a futile effort to repeal Obamacare.

It seems like a waste of time, money and effort.

What an incredible waste of time and effort that could be used for so many better purposes, like scratching my rear end.

Jules Might I suggest that the Christian Left could accomplish this by directing ALL of its charity efforts and funds towards actually helping the poor, as opposed to wasting them fighting the culture war against gays, women, and science like the Right does?

And you'll probably never know until eventually you just give up because it feels like a lot of wasted effort.

Sometimes it can feel like every effort you make to nourish those little bodies is a complete waste of time - ending up as a pile of mess all over the floor, or simply left untouched; the bin as its destiny.

There have also been advances in policies as well as education efforts like the Save the Food campaign to raise awareness of food loss and waste.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

Finally, the attendees talked about the power of and need for partnerships to solve the many reasons for food waste, including sharing stories of existing efforts like the three companies in the Midwest who are splitting the cost and use of an anaerobic digester, which turns food scraps into energy, and several food donation groups who highlighted the effectiveness of successful partnerships.

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

I think that is what annoys me about the striker situation — while it appears like we have made effort, in reality I think we probably just gave a few people the run around and wasted everyone's time.

As the minutes waned away and the Spartak players dropped like flies to the dual threat of cramps and time - wasting, Alexander - Arnold produced yet another stunning cross to pick out Salah six yards out and central, but the Egyptian put his headed effort straight at substitute goalkeeper Alexander Selikhov, securing yet another disappointing draw for the Reds.

I make an effort to waste as little as possible and the food I purchase either doesn't come in a package (like fruits and veggies), comes in recyclable packaging (like canned beans or a jar of applesauce) or we buy in bulk (like nuts and grains) and reuse the plastic bags until they are no good.

throwing away the zip - locks after unloading the dirty diapers each time seemed like a waste of money and back tracking my green efforts.

I'm huge with recycling and reusing so this sounds like such a great idea in an effort to control so much waste in our landfills.

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

If the Democrats take the White House, you won't have to wait long for Republicans who, like magic, will suddenly realize what a wasted effort Iraq is, now that a Democratic administration is in charge.

I made a great effort during last 4 years to obtain positive results in my thesis and now I feel like I have wasted my time: I have no options to get a job neither in academic nor industry unless I refresh or recycle myself, but how I could do so when I'm 35 and spent the main time of my life studiying and giving up so many things just to get a better future?

O'Connell said that Dell is also using packaging materials recycled from agricultural waste, such as wheat straw, in its efforts to accelerate innovation - goals echoed by the AAAS Research Competitiveness Program and advanced through its involvement in award programs like the Catalyst Award.

To this day, these values continue to fuel our every move and are reflected in efforts like our waste - minimizing Whole Animal Project and our Honesty Pledge.

You might even feel like your efforts are a waste of time because you «just can't get any bigger ``.

Do it in the wrong way and you will end up with with a body that you wouldn't like and your effort in exercising wasted.

Frequent complaints I hear are «I don't know how to cook, I don't have time to cook, I get confused in the grocery store, I don't know what's healthy, I'm too busy to cook, No one likes my cooking and I feel like it was a waste of time and effort.»

This way, they will stay focused and not feel like their efforts are going to waste.

They either give up after repeated failures, or they get pulled further into this nonsense and start wasting all their time and effort on things like detox foot baths, raw diets and other such idiocy.

Efficiency is particularly relevant to the more muscular than average runner, as those athletes not built like Kenyans burn exponentially more energy via wasted effort (e.g. «heel braking», excessive vertical bound, excessive arm swing, etc..)

After starting to make a conscious effort to actually finish products and not let the last bit go to waste while saving it for a special day, I felt like I made really good progress.

Online dating involves a lot of time and effort that can feel like wasted energy but is just part of the search.

Despite its nice aesthetics, the numerous scams and fake profiles will make your efforts go to waste and leave you feeling like you've been scammed, especially if you've purchased a premium membership.

In light of experiences like this, sometimes it's worth paying a little more to a matchmaker to ensure your time and efforts are not wasted.

I've never been on lots of dates and I don't like casual dating because it feels like my efforts are wasted.

Plus it's not like more characters is neccessary because there's no online anyway, so the extra effort would just be wasted to be honest.

Watching talented actors like Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger and William Hurt waste their efforts on this drivel is hard enough, but adding Meyer's creepy sexual politics turns it into an active disaster.

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K - 12 education — including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.

«I feel like we wasted a lot of time and effort fretting for a year on the pros and cons of the school we considered,» she wrote in an e-mail.

The difference between GT and Sport + is far from so wide as to render either a waste, with Aston electing to avoid things like, for example, dialing - in a magnitude of steering effort with no apparent benefit other than tiring your arms.

However, when it's time to turn your manuscript into a book you will be wasting a lot of time and effort trying to make a word processing program act like a page layout program.

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?

It is often found that if a student somehow able to write a mediocre - leveled essay after tons of drafts and amendments, there are still numerous errors like improper drafting, the grammatical error, improper alignment and so on that waste the efforts in no time.