Sentences with phrase «of examples of wasteful spending»

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Breadsticks have become a battle cry for Starboard, which said it has identified myriad examples of wasteful spending that add up to as much as $ 75 million a year.

Recall Cuomo's 2011 - 12 budget address in which he singled out superintendents — particularly Syosset's Carole Hankin, whose more than $ 500,000 in salary and benefits is the highest in the state — as a prime example of wasteful spending by school districts.

Despite the agreement, critics have dismissed the gondola as an example of wasteful government spending.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and the shadow cabinet minister in charge of the party's preparations for government, Francis Maude, «will also publish a dossier entitled «It's your money» detailing examples of wasteful spending - including the billions spent on the NHS super computer, ID cards, refurbishing the Ministry of Defence and Government consultants.»

Republican Assemblyman Steve Hawley says the signs are an example of wasteful spending and that the money should have been spent on more important items.

State Sen. Sue Serino (R - Dutchess County) pointed to the gondola as an example of wasteful spending, especially as her district was dealing with «Lyme and other tick borne diseases.»

The feds have indeed funded bear DNA research — b - e-a-r DNA research — to the tune of almost five million dollars over the last five years, which is way more than the three million dollars that John McCain keep springing up as an example of wasteful government spending.

The research, which was to study the effects of environmental stress due to climate change on shrimp and other economically - important species, was attacked as another example of wasteful government spending.

Sometimes, such research has been ridiculed — notably by politicians looking for examples of wasteful spending.

It is an interesting and extremely wasteful proposal — for example after spending a lot of energy to cool the air, the cold air seems to be just blown out, no attempt to recoup the energy.

As an example of wasteful spending, Juanéda cites an alleged trip by a few CREA board members or members of its advertising committee to Mexico to oversee the shooting of an ad.