Sentences with phrase «squandered on»

The Opus # 1 does not suffer from a development whose focus and resources were divided and ultimately squandered on idiocy.

After a couple of brief meetings with partners around the firm I quickly discern that the level of dissatisfaction couldn't be more extreme and that the substance of partner discontent was in the huge amount of money being squandered on three disastrously unprofitable ancillary business operations.

Instead, billions have been squandered on unreliable wind and solar power which can only ever be a supplement for gas, rather than a free - standing source of energy.

While he believes that world leaders can not ignore climate change, Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, says he is concerned that precious resources are too often squandered on ineffective solutions, and that aid money could be spent on better interventions that do the most social good.»

For the best part of 20 years, the wind cult has attempted to justify the hundreds of $ billions squandered on -LSB-...]

For the best part of 20 years, the wind cult has attempted to justify the hundreds of $ billions squandered on subsidies for wind power, as being all for the greater good.

This isn't a game, the hundred billion a year being squandered on pseudoscience needs to be redirected to humanity as soon as possible.

How do we get back all that money we've had taken from us by our governments and spunked on their cronies at Solyndra and BrightSource or thrown casually into grants for junk science research like «ocean acidification» or squandered on shysters at tainted institutions like NASA, NOAA and the Royal Society or wasted on anti-capitalist bureaucracies like the EPA and the Department of Energy and Climate Change?

I hate to think about the trillions of dollars squandered on the big lie.

Think of the good that might be done were the funds squandered on such foolish studies diverted to most anything that might actually assist third - world people directly.

Of course we know far too little about chaos - driven climate processes to be sure about this, since the lion's share of research funding is squandered on the usual narrow linear stories.

Polls show that despite hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars squandered on global - warming alarmism, the American public still refuses to widely accept the man - made warming theories advanced by an increasingly discredited UN and its allies.

What are they to make of the tens of millions of dollars that have been squandered on this work?

The open world setting is squandered on events and cop persists that are entirely linear.

Is release space being squandered on Photo Clock (Nintendo, 1 player, 200 Nintendo DSi Points)?

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

I wish I had the ability to reclaim the time that I squandered on searching for a redeeming quality in any of the characters.

Those oh - so - elusive SBAC results: after millions of dollars squandered on broadband improvements, tedious test prep, and time diverted from actual learning, our students, parents, and teachers have been prevented from getting the test results because no one in educational leadership today has figured out how to «spin» the results without facing the consequences of this poorly designed, invalid, questionably - standardized assessment that was perpetrated on our public school students.

In addition, Littman traces the relationship to no - nothing policy makers who have allowed scarce public resources to be squandered on the make - a-fast-buck industry that has been the foundation of Malloy's education reform effort.

Much of the energy of the film is squandered on trying to ensure the character superficially matches the iconic photographs we remember of Diana.

It's too bad, then, that so much was squandered on dumb gore effects, dumber creature effects, and a premise that only works as a metaphor — a clumsy one, at that.

From Buscemi (Lean on Pete) to the versatile Riseborough (Battle of the Sexes), the cast of actors is squandered on embarrassingly shallow roles.

This is their story, but I just felt like it was squandered on rehashing the previous films.

A solid cast (Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell) was squandered on this by - the - comic - book take on the Man Without Fear, but hear me out: maybe it's time for a rewatch.

It's a gift that shouldn't be squandered on such a mediocre movie.

Evan Creevy's sophomore effort, «Welcome to the Punch,» attempts to bridge that gap by delivering a Hollywood - style crime thriller on an indie budget, but although he's landed an impressive cast of A-list British talent, it's mostly squandered on a bland and overly predictable script.

Robinson, who was squandered on the short - lived sitcom, will play Ray, a «neighborhood local who reaches out to Elliot (Rami Malek) in his time of need.»

Yet the script's big - screen ambitions are squandered on a mediocre Enterprise - breaking set piece.

There were effective ideas here, but they never really take off, and the film's potential is squandered on a poorly written script, and the end result is one of the weakest films in the franchise.

Unfortunately, Susanna White's direction is so stale and unengaging that their performances are squandered on a final product more befitting of a TV movie than a feature film.

In fact, after two disastrous «Aliens vs. Predator» motion pictures, the heat - sensing thrill was pretty much gutted from the franchise, with any hope for the alien character to reign triumphantly once again squandered on filmmakers incapable of gruesome imagination.

It's sad to see Latifah's talent squandered on such clichés.

The cast is anchored by two wonderful actresses: Imelda Staunton and Rebecca Hall, whose talents are squandered on this lackluster horror drama.

What parents may not anticipate, however, is that their child's contribution to scientific understanding could also be squandered on a study that is never completed or that fails to be published in the medical literature.

Excerpt: «Reforming the Common Core, increasing aid to local schools, and making sure that educational funding goes to the classroom and benefits our students, rather than being squandered on additional layers of unnecessary government bureaucracy.»

«Ultimately, the Republicans have taken what they call a «once in a generation» opportunity on tax reform and squandered it on corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich.»

«We can take back the billions we give to the EU, the money which is squandered on grand parliamentary buildings and bureaucratic follies, and invest it in science and technology, schools and apprenticeships.

With current County Executive Edward Mangano not seeking re-election as he fights federal corruption charges, Curran criticized «money squandered on jobs for the politically connected, on bloated contracts and on endless self - promotional campaigns.»

Too much time is squandered on weaving back and forth through the twists of the political scandal, with more than enough shots of Crowe walking hurriedly in time to an edgy bass - heavy soundtrack, his head lowered, his brow furrowed as he thinks Really Big Thoughts.

Membership fees will be spent on enterprise, education, a better healthcare system, roads and other infrastructure rather than squandered on EU dreams.

Or perhaps the limited amount of time with a nurse will be squandered on a pointless discussion about the advantages of the competing brands, instead of learning the baby's cues or how to know that the baby is getting enough to eat.

And what about the money squandered on the dinner that never took place?

It seemed to me, to be frank, a rather exorbitant amount of money to be squandered on a simple category error occasioned by a beguiling homonymy.

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.

Every threat that is cast about finding out the truth after we've died only makes us that much more solidified that the choices we make are the right ones, life is to be lived in the hear and now, not squandered on the hopes of reward after death.

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

These effects are significantly larger during periods of slow growth and in countries with high public investment efficiency, which is critical to ensure that resources are not squandered on «white elephant» projects.

The sums of money squandered on bailing out banks are difficult to grasp.

It's depressing to think that some people squander it on absolute nonsense.

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