Sentences with phrase «squandered as»

What could have been an opportunity to discuss an often - ignored aspect of women's fitness and to be a leader in educating both athletes and the public about what can be done for this common problem was squandered as a bad joke, made in very poor taste.

The initial Lycan encounter flashes The Order's potential for some slower paced horror elements, but the opportunity is squandered as the game never fully plays up this aspect.

Any hopes of Borders being miraculously saved from liquidation, were squandered as part of the debate on Border's grim future was finally laid to rest.

Selma Blair is wasted in a throwaway role as a porn star attracted to Al; Rosario Dawson is similarly squandered as Imogen's flaky friend Lana.

There's also fine support by Tom Waits but the belief that this ensemble have in the material is squandered as McDonagh has no idea what he's doing.

It doesn't happen, unfortunately, and Debicki ends up as squandered as the rest, but that moment of hope is among the film's best.

Every year 10 gigawatts of potential power are squandered as waste heat from industrial processes — enough to light 10 million homes.

These measurements favor ad platforms who, whether through error of commission or omission, have allowed brands to squander as much as 20 % of their digital advertising budgets on fraudulent impressions.

Very rarely have I seen someone squander as many opportunities for greatness as Grealish.»

How can you be so athletically gifted and have a high potential to do great things, yet squander it as you can't focus because you don't know how to use a condom and thus have 6 baby mamas.

What precious commodity do they squander as if it had no value?

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I promise myself a little, and then I've squandered five hours that could've brought me closer to my goals as a writer.

As with most meetings, much progress is squandered by lack of follow up.

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.

Many of us squander this valuable spot by using template messaging such as «Having trouble reading this?

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

The pressure of the successor's curse can threaten to engulf a successor such as James, leading to what most people see as the stereotype of a family business successor — the entitled next generation member who lives a lavish lifestyle and squanders away the family wealth.

The Silicon Valley pioneer has squandered billions of dollars on ill - advised acquisitions, compounding the challenges it already faces as it scrambles to adjust to a world that is shifting away from PCs to smartphones and tablets.

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.

We try to be virtuous enough to eke our way into the Kingdom — should there prove to be one — but our righteousness is lived so as not to squander this life's pleasure potential in case there is no Kingdom.

Glad to see Charlie is keeping the money to himself instead of giving it to his son to squander on nonsense such as this.

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.

Alvarado cites the example of German Calvinist political theorist Johannes Althusius, who defined the discipline of morals as «the inquisition into and chastisement of those morals and luxuries that are not prevented or punished by laws, but which corrupt the souls of subjects or squander their goods unproductively.»

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.

As it is, it's just more «steal and squander» by government tax thugs.

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.

Nevertheless, so prominent an exegete as Heinrich Schlier previously warned his colleagues: «Do not squander your time on trivialities.»

The Wall Street Journal inveighed against it as educational inanity: if not exactly corrupting the youth, then at least leading them astray and squandering their tuition....

And in the conclusion to the document, the Council is determined to reinforce a view of the human person «as a creature «in - between,» neither god nor beast, neither dumb body nor disembodiedsoul, but as a puzzling, upward - pointing unity of psyche and soma whose precise limitations are the source of its — our — loftiest aspirations, whose weaknesses are the source of its — our — keenest attachments, and whose natural gifts may be, if we do not squander or destroy them, exactly what we need to flourish and perfect ourselves — as human beings.»

In games against Swansea and Sunderland last season it wan't poor goalkeeping that left us with no bite in attack and many squandered chances as we continuously shuffle the ball from left to right and back infront of the defence.

But what happened on Wednesday will go down as an all - time squandering of one of the truly great playoff performances of James» career.

Chelsea squandered a whole host of chances throughout the rest of the match, with the best falling to Spanish Alvaro Morata, who saw his 93rd minute volley fly just past the post as the Hammers held on for all three points.

Even so, it's weird, it would seem Arsene might not have lost that early magic, as it's been pilferage or squandered in some way or another.

Placekicker Andy Pappanastos missed a 36 - yard field goal as regulation expired, squandering a shot for Bama to win then.

They spend their fair share of money every year to improve the club and were in the race all last season before squandering the title (as well as making the UCL semifinal).

I hope we hang on to the lead as we squandered many chances.

The second half petered out somewhat in the familiar fashion as both sides took the opportunity to make substitutions, although Raphael Varane had a fine chance from a set - piece which he squandered.

Giroud squanders so many chances and other teams (the mid table teams who might be interested in him) simply don't create as many chances for him to squander.

Los Blancos have come under fierce criticism from the national press and their own fans after squandering their lead in La Liga, having been overtaken by Barcelona, and the atmosphere at the Bernabeu described as «a pressure cooker» by Spanish paper Marca, quoted by MailSport.

Luis Suarez squandered numerous opportunities, Fabio Borini looked like he was a bit overcome by the occasion of his league debut with Liverpool, and Stewart Downing was as average as he always is.

Van Gaal's decision to omit the Colombian backfired as an insipid United team were beaten 1 - 0 by Premier League surprise package Southampton, struggling to create clear chances throughout the match and squandering the few that did come their way.

That could soon change though, as only Hoolahan of Norwich (5) and Silva of Man City (6) have more than Ozil's four and the Arsenal strikers are not squandering so many chances these days.

Chelsea will have to wait yet again for their first winning streak of the Premier League season as they squandered a lead twice and allowed West Bromwich Albion to hold them to a 2 - 2 draw at Stamford Bridge.

Liverpool have conceded 17 goals in 12 league games, 11 more than Man Utd who boast the best defensive record in the league, while their failings were exposed in midweek as they squandered a 3 - 0 lead at Sevilla.

We started the quarter slowly with possession being squandered and Edge Hill upping their game as well, a timely «injury» timeout by Chloe allowed the coach to dispense some words of wisdom and calm the team down, on resumption normal services was resumed and we extended our lead to 44 - 19, with Ruth turning over ball and Kate feeding well into the circle.

City's performance was disappointing as both Sergio Aguero and David Silva squandered chances for the away side.

Unfortunately for these two Arsenal related stars, their performances were not enough to guarantee progression to the next round as the Swiss could only draw after conceding a daft early penalty and squandering a number of good chances.

Having spent half a decade solidifying their reputation as big - race skiers — with Tommy Moe's Olympic downhill win in Lillehammer, Picabo Street's 1996 world downhill championship and 1998 Olympic Super G title, Hilary Lindh's downhill gold in Sestriere — the Americans squandered a home course advantage in Vail with a grim performance.