Sentences with phrase «squandered if»

People with much potential that might be squandered if they can not proceed into their chosen careers, and who might have much power to help others in the future, if they only they can reach and fulfill it.

A property developer who was building a 9 Star energy efficient house once confided in me, that much of that efficiency would be squandered if the house was inhabited by a 1 Star resident.

These advantages can be squandered if the investor pays too high a price for his stock.

For example, the work of coaches is squandered if school principals are not instructional leaders.

«However we also know that this opportunity can be squandered if immediate action is not taken to bring together relevant policymakers and experts.»

Unfortunately, the governor's laudable efforts will be squandered if he gets drawn into a narrow fight with the unions over details, like points and weighting percentages in teacher evaluations.

All those advantages can be squandered if you use a high - fee HSA.

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If that idea doesn't prove workable, they've squandered the opportunity to impress the funders that have relationships with that incubator.

Musk, who believed Sorkin was squandering the potential to create a viable consumer brand, helped spark a revolt among Zip2 managers, who threatened to quit if Sorkin was not removed.

Experience, like money, can be very beneficial if you do not squander it but rather put it to good use.

If we don't stop the rapidly growing influence of government over private sector activity, we will squander America's unmatched capacity to innovate and create a standard of living and free society that are the envy of the world.»

The difference between fiction and life, I suppose, is that in real life if you squander your credibility, it's much harder to regain.

«But at the end of that, if nothing had changed, we'd have squandered our capital.»

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

If your SEO is being managed by one guy and paid search by another, but they never talk with each other about your account, then valuable data is being squandered and a strategy is lacking.

If you're not focused on building rapport and having an organic conversation with the audience you're attempting to sway, then you're squandering your efforts and wasting everyone's time.

If nothing else, the shift alone is a good reason to learn from an expert how not to squander those precious 60 minutes.

«You don't get rid of intellectual capital because one day you might need it, and if you have squandered it then you must redo it,» explained one researcher.

Should the economy bounce back later this year, it would be both disheartening and potentially destabilizing if the Fed were to squander this window of opportunity to make an initial rate move in 2015.

«If we owned the S&P 500 we'd probably be ill from watching companies squander capital.

If you don't write a business plan when you're thinking of starting a business, in the best case scenario, you'll be floundering around squandering time and resources.

If the South is open to the charge (in a James Sellers phrase) of having squandered most of its psychic energy on the anachronism of segregation (and slavery before that), the North may be accused of having misdirected many of its attitudes toward the benightedness and inferiority of southerners and southern ways.

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.

People would be more secure from real threats if allowed to keep a lot more of the money now squandered on a bloated military.

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.

If Christians gave even 10 percent of what they earned to the Church — and it wasn't being squandered on nonsense — we could actually make an enormous impact.

If we allow ourselves to be distracted by theological sophistries we run the risk of squandering this opportunity.

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.

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.»

If Camping has a decent bone in his body, he'll refund all the donations he didn't squander.

I hoped for more but suspect the types of Lewandoski and aubameyang etc are not shifting If you consider theos pace and how many chances he's squandered or lack of runs he makes vardy would be an excellent upgrade.

In that game, I thought we were clinical, and didn't squander many, if any, chances that fell our way.

If buts and maybes, Spurs had a similar season to Livs current one when we had Crouch Defoe and Pav, wouldn't really lose too many, but the 59 chances a game were squandered.

There is no doubt that the budget he has been granted to work with over the past four transfer windows gave him a serious advantage over rivals; an advantage that was, for various reasons, mismanaged if not outright squandered.

So if the various permutations and Blackpool's urgent need for points weren't already promising a thrilling contest in Manchester, the very first encounter between the two in the Premiership back in January, when Blackpool squandered a two - goal lead before losing 3 - 2, would certainly suggest another thrill - a-minute contest despite the likelihood of United manager Sir Alex Ferguson making wholesale changes to his starting XI.

But he will risk squandering those accomplishments if he lets local finances devolve into chaos.

If there is one party that generally has stronger control in a region, instead of squandering financial and manpower resources contesting every election, including ones where they have almost no chance of winning, opposition parties will target just positions where they think they can be competitive, leaving others unopposed.

«If Paladino gets on the ballot, which I believe he will, then Lazio will spend the next two months squandering what little money he has on a primary, with Cuomo just sitting back and enjoying the summer,» said one of the state's best - known Republican activists.

If NY has money to burn and squander on this, why do Democrats want to raise taxes?

Should he do so, the Tories will be able to argue that the looming public service cuts — cuts that the IFS already calls «inconceivably» deep — would have to be deeper still under a Labour government, since it would squander more resources on bigger benefit cheques.

Yes, says Horsch, in a recent speech: «We can not afford to squander our time debating that last fraction of risk from fantastic «what if» scenarios of biotechnology that ignore 10 millennia of broad experience in agriculture and tremendous modern insights into the science of genetics.»

«If you give all that money to industry, they'll just squander it.

It's important for children to understand that good health growing up can quickly be squandered when they leave the nest if they begin making poor dietary choices for themselves on a regular basis.

But an online profile is either an attention - getter or it's not, and if it isn't, you've wasted a lot of effort and squandered a terrific opportunity.

If you look badly they do not want to squander time talking with you.

The landscapes are both beautiful and harrowing, even if the second half of the film veers into more predictable love - triangle territory that squanders some of the provocative ideas introduced at the outset.

In this town, the playboy aristocrat Bassanio (Fiennes, Elizabeth) has squandered himself into debt, but has a plan to repay his loans, if only he might be able to marry the lovely and wealthy Portia (Collins).

It's very nicely, if a little safely made, and gives you a compelling sense of how blithely an entire generation was squandered.

If Zoolander 2 doesn't quite squander this maturity (the subject of fatherhood logically progresses, Antoine Doinel - like, from the romantic denouement of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), it also suggests a by - product of that picture's commercial failure and the Gen - X panic Stiller portrayed so adeptly in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young.