Sentences with phrase «squandered most»

If you don't, you will have squandered the most important returns on your investments.

The sentimental and episodic third act compounds the movie's progressively uninvolving atmosphere, and it's disappointing to note that the film has, by the time the abrupt conclusion rolls around, squandered most of the good will generated by its opening stretch - which ultimately confirms Dom Hemingway's place as little more than a showcase for Law's consistently engaging performance.

Rivera had a most impressive ensemble of African - American actors at his disposal, but he unfortunately squandered most of their services.

Sure, it seems like the answer is obvious, but Harold is going to die eventually anyway, and he's already squandered most of his life thus far.

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.

The focus on memorization, fueled by standardized testing, has obstructed learning, according to Linda Darling - Hammond of Stanford University, who argues that students have been losing or squandering most of the information they acquire in school.

We are squandering our most important resource... our future.

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

The Senate Armed Services Committee will most likely hold a hearing next month specifically to examine how the Pentagon squandered $ 12 million on direct costs and around $ 20 million in overhead for the gas station.

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 God - given dignity squandered in the Garden of Eden had been restored at Easter to men and women who could now be, again, sons and daughters of the Most High God, and thus truly themselves; yet the path to Easter, Francis knew, went up the rocky hill of Calvary.

To ask them to do so is asking them to squander the chances they do have to protect the most vulnerable among us.

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.

We can not squander the opportunity our poor record has given us to acquire the most important position on the field.

Further, the network didn't want to squander its exclusivity, which came at a pretty good price, by showing the tape before it could get the most viewers, which was in prime time the next night.

Villa midfielder Jean Makoun was sent off in the team's most recent outing in the league, when drawing with Ian Holloway's Blackpool at Bloomfield Road in a match where the Villains squandered an early lead through Gabriel Agbonlahor, and the Cameroon international will now serve a three - match ban starting with Blackburn at the weekend.

He added: «I believe the most positive first step of a new minister of the environment would be to end the squandering of the taxpayer's money on the current hopeless botch of a badger cull, and invest instead in the BACVI - the first real positive step towards eradication of the disease.»

The fact that most New Yorkers have no idea what the office does says a lot about how it has been squandered by those who have recently held it including the current Mayor Bill de Blasio.

November 2011 saw every non-incumbent Republican candidate for Suffolk County Legislature lose, most embarrassing of them all being John Giannott's squandering of a sure - thing victory to the hapless Rob Calarco, who was severely outspent.

Resources that could be targeted on Britain's most vulnerable people - the very old, the very sick and the very young - are instead being squandered.

Having seemingly squandered goodwill of most youths, he may also have an incentive to discredit that constituency!

Sadly, he's squandered his presidency, most notably the first two years when he had a majority in both houses of Congress.

«It wasn't the most orderly process, to close this prior Rupco getting all of the land - use approvals through the city,» said Woltman who believes the Landmark Place proposal represents a «squandered opportunity» to redevelop an historic site.

Just think back a few decades — the Inner Harbor was an eyesore to our city and region, a toxic waste site that squandered one of our city's most magnificent natural assets.

Not only was the most intense fear experienced during the anticipation, during the story - telling my brain was churning out on a second to second basis before I leapt, but that fear was almost completely squandered once I let go.

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As with his two most celebrated departures, Punch Drunk Love and Funny People, there's a meta dimension to the part, which finds him playing a gifted artist who's squandered his talent.

My man bug bear really is that this plot could have been explored without the whole downsizing premise, and that a second film could have been made to make the most of that squandered opportunity.

What bothers me most about the film is that it squanders a solid grasp on slasher - movie conventions and, perhaps more importantly, on early - Eighties slasher - movie aesthetics, by which I mean the naturalistic minimalism we encounter in the first three Friday the 13th films.

Bekmambetov is a visual effects maestro (as he's proven with the Russian fantasy films «Night Watch» and «Day Watch»), and though most of his SFX trickery is squandered before the end of the first act, he still stages a mean gunfight; one good enough to rival even the most impressive sequence from «Shoot «Em Up.»

Equally mediocre is a Dolby 5.0 audio mix that squanders several opportunities for rustling atmospheric madness while giving over most of its fidelity to a recreation of the stock score; it's the kind of spooky music bullstuff one can probably find at the local Paper Warehouse round about this time of year.

There is a single story arc that has any sense of humanity to it — most of which is due to a fantastic understated performance by Mark Rylance — but even then, it squanders any sort of compassion or ethos.

Not an immense waste of time, just a couple of forgettable hours, and most frustrating is how the film squandered Henson's immense talent.

While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all - seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.

I have no expectations for it whatsover; it's disappointing to see Disney squander the opportunity to make something out of one of Pixar's most interesting films.

This squandering is especially unfortunate given that Wahlberg's talky scenes in «The Departed» were some of the movie's most memorable.

More egregiously, by failing to honour her own story with the proper ending, Rowling betrays real post-feminist icon Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), the «most gifted wizard of her generation» (and low - born to boot), squandered to tertiary status in this instalment before being dismissed into domesticity.

On the face of it neither does strategy role - playing series Fire Emblem, but the large cast of characters and the rules that govern their combat are actually a very good match, with lots of potential — most of which this game manages to squander.

The screenplay squanders opportunities for drama, but works as a hero's journey into knowledge and a poetic meditation on the unsuspected distances that can develop between the most intimate people.

The state, which has lagged behind most others in gathering education data, squandered a chance to inform teachers, parents and itself.

Throw in the fact that editors in most big houses are squandering their money on whatever social justice fad there is, and the end result is a huge number of readers who feel either ripped off by high prices, unsatisfied by the available content, or both.

On the off chance that you read their assurances most decline to discount any cash on the off chance that you are not fulfilled so you wind up doing simply squandering your money.

And while youth itself is the biggest investing advantage available to anyone, most wait until 40 or so to start thinking about retirement, squandering this huge edge in the process.

I would imagine this is true for most or even all of the folks you like to fashion as «Goons», in order to allow you to avoid asking yourself the truly difficult personal questions about yourself and how you've squandered literally years of your life.

«The most useful feature of government in resolving the foreclosure crisis is not its ability to squander taxpayer money, but its ability to provide coordinated action.

It appears most of the money was squandered through attempts to diversify the business.

Last year, pet owners spent over $ 43.4 billion — with most of that squandered on useless gadgets or extravagant pet products.

What bothers me about Freedom Wars most is the way it quickly squanders its setup.