Sentences with phrase «squandering of»

Two problems: I'm not a playwright and have no intention of squandering any of my remaining time in a vocation filled with competitors, and I'm not sure the topic of housing, especially the homeless, translates to music very well.

The Close the Gap Campaign believes this would be an unacceptable course of action as it would also represent a squandering of the over two billion dollars of investment in these areas in the past five years through the two mentioned national partnership agreements.

They may be irresponsible as parents, as evidenced by malnutrition of a child, an illness in the child resulting from a \ aèk of minimal hygiene, a child's dependence on neighbors or nonresident relatives for food or shelter, a failure to arrange for a caretaker for a young child when the individual is away from home, or repeated squandering of money required for household necessities.

Sensing an opportunity in Facebook's squandering of public trust through its previously unrestrained giveaway of user data, Mozilla on Tuesday unveiled a defense against the social ad biz in the...

I don't know how long it's been since Mr. Crudele was a student, but I can think of worse examples of student squandering of funds.

Those factors include: her squandering of the time when she was paid support while also being intentionally unemployed; her unilateral move to Mexico accompanied by her express decision to not work or be underemployed; her failure to produce relevant evidence about her past and present financial circumstances in a timely fashion; her active misrepresentations to Mr. Street concerning her income; her filing of false evidence before this Court and the Provincial Court about her employment activities in Mexico; her delay in seeking spousal support; the hardship that would be borne by Mr. Street, A.S.S. and his new family members arising from her past (in) actions and in seeking support at this late date; and, her failure to comply with the Rules.

After a point, there'll be no new tricks and nobody else to blame for the squandering of finite energy.

And then you thought no further, considered nothing inobvious, left your talents buried, in a pompous backslapping squandering of opportunities.

No doubt you've heard that one before: From Natural Capitalism to Confessions of a Radical Industrialist to The Truth about Green Business, the idea that waste (or «non-product») doesn't just represent an environmental evil, but also a squandering of financial resources.

The squandering of hundreds of trillions based on miniscule possible changes in temperature over 200 years.

That many people will do what's necessary to limit and to bring to an end the foolish squandering of the resources that rightfully should be handed on in good order to our descendants — one of those resources being a climate congenial to agriculture and an ocean that can support fish more palatable than jellyfish.

Potential threats to authority are neutralized by directing the unproductive squandering of precious time, energy, & consciousness.

I say this because they are all, with a few small niche exceptions, going to go out of business without further subsidisation and we taxpayers know too much now to let this squandering of our cash carry on.

During a stop near Sydney, Australia, mainly framed around urging young people to join the Church, Pope Benedict XVI on Friday also spent time describing nature's wonders and wounds — «scars which mark the surface of our earth, erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.»

«The role of the Nyau mask is thus to orchestrate the giving of gifts,» which in a capitalist culture, he explains, would be considered the squandering of surplus time and wealth.

My own review is pretty reflective of the average score it's gotten from professional critics, with the repetitive gameplay, cookie - cutter open world structure, and squandering of style being chief complaints.

Seeing as videogames are the interactive medium of the moment, these segments turned out to be the biggest crowd - pleasers, even if momentarily a squandering of the expertise of the Tokyo Phil.

Fail to do this sort of planning before you retire, and you run the risk of squandering some of the joys of your initial retirement years.

Lee called the enhancement of the CPP an «squandering of resources» because reports suggest only around 15 to 20 per cent of Canadians are ill - prepared for retirement.

However, it has dawned on me over the last few years that the former (the extreme competitiveness) has actually led to an aggregate squandering of the benefits of the latter (patience).

This has «squandering of resources in a vain attempt to become relevant» written all over it.

Such a squandering of goodwill, the BMW - stan's bulbous current lineup discards the compelling minimalism of its iconic predecessors (a dwindling quality from the start) and then stomps all over it, psychographically speaking.

At a time when our country needs a deep intellectual talent pool, the squandering of these bright young minds is a national tragedy.

This all adds up to a squandering of a pretty fantastic cast.

by Walter Chaw Featuring the valedictorians of the indie brat pack past and present, Matthew Ryan Hoge's sophomore hyphenate feature The United States of Leland is woefully overwritten, self - indulgent, and plodding — a shame given the squandering of another nice clenched - jaw performance from Ryan Gosling, and no surprise given the full martyred weight of actor / producer / saviour - of - mankind Kevin Spacey, thrown behind the project as simultaneous catalyst for completion and guarantee for failure.

The chief problem of the picture, however, is its feckless squandering of everything that might be interesting or amusing about an innocent schlep discovering one day that for no discernible reason he has the strength and brainpower of sixty - one - and - a-half men.

Even if you ignore the self - fellating pretension of such an exercise (not to mention Haneke's sad squandering of his own stateside momentum post-Caché), a small fact niggles.

Otherwise, it's a squandering of potential in any other way.

Interesting, too, is the inescapable idea that the only genuinely convincing relationships in the film are homosexual, and that the picture could be read with profit as an escalating evolution of father relationships from low to positively Christian (mad steward Denethor and son Faramir, Frodo and Gollum, Gandalf and the hobbits, Aragorn and mankind)-- but part and parcel with the oft - fascinating subtext and beautiful images is a parade of useless cameos (please, enough Cate Blanchett), de rigueur expository flashbacks, and the squandering of opportunities to locate the genuine interest in unlikely epic heroes (women and, essentially, children), rather than just pay lip service to them.

Through it all is a sense that in this place and time, there was a chance at bliss, even though that chance was squandered — and that the squandering of it is the essential story and tragedy of human existence.

While moments, particularly the resolution to that seemingly throwaway subplot about the dead friend, can be moving despite their dissonance (a Farrelly hallmark), they're always cursory to the central duo, who are unrepentant in their squandering of years on foolish pranks, openly hostile towards reflections of their age (e.g., Fraida), and insulated from harsh reality by not only their wilful ignorance, but a perpetual fog of nostalgia as well.

«I think in general there's been a squandering of our credibility,» Brenna says.

«This waste of talent, this squandering of human potential, this grotesque failure to give all our fellow citizens an equal chance is a reproach to our conscience,» he added

After a stint as The News» computer assisted reporting editor, Heaney joined the paper's newly formed investigative reporting team and produced a series of investigations related to economic development, including the city's squandering of federal block grant funds, and, with colleague Patrick Lakamp, the failings of the state Empire Zone program.

Mr. Fischer claims that because Mr. Cruz is receiving federal funds for his campaign, «any «fraudulent» or otherwise ineligible candidate causes the waste and squandering of U.S. taxpayer monies.»

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.

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.»

Badger Trust Chairman Peter Martin said: «The public has a right to be outraged not only by the appalling waste of badgers» lives but also the disgraceful squandering of tens of millions of pounds on a policy that will have no measurable impact on reducing bovine TB.»

Croatia will rue the squandering of two points and the part played in it by their own supporters.

To Kawhi's supposed squandering of other's gifts, I say: So what.

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

The man had serious GOAT potential, the squandering of which was primarily due to not taking the job seriously enough.

We have long been profoundly aware of these perspectives: the progress of the universe, and especially the human universe, does not take place in rivalry with God, nor is it a vain squandering of the energies we owe to him.

We are at a classic tipping point when it comes to the secret squandering of Canadian tax dollars.

This may be the biggest squandering of money by a retail chain — even including Ron Johnson and JCPenney.»

Yet it doesn't necessarily follow that Mayer is blameless for her squandering of goodwill.

His handling of the Eric Garner grand jury, which put him in a national spotlight, may have squandered some of the cross-party support he's historically received and gives Dems a point to hit him with in an election run - up.

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.

There's no way Nintendo is leaving it like that, potentially to squander all of this new found momentum.

Perhaps your readership could be better informed about the squander of USACE dredge spoils vis a vis marshland reconstruction, etc., if your newspaper would publish some of the photos of the equipment that the rest of coastal USA is using for estuary reconstruction.