Sentences with phrase «squandering resources»

But more than 41 percent say their vigilance about squandering resources is «due to the economy, while just 28 percent claim it's «due to the environment.»

«Education Secretary Michael Gove is clearly letting down parents by squandering resources on schools that nobody wants in places where they are not needed.

The government has been accused of squandering resources by running two careers services in parallel — the CEC and the National Careers Service — notably by the chair of the education select committee Robert Halfon.

Conventional agriculture may have its downsides in terms of land usage and CO2 generation, but at least it has the possibility of being carbon neutral and of not squandering resources our descendants need.

Eight leading thinkers offer visions of how to move from a history of squandering resources to a cleaner, more efficient, and more abundant energy supply.

In our 8 June issue, we lamented that the superpowers were squandering resources better spent on earthbound problems.

New York and other states that offer generous tax breaks to the multi-billion-dollar film industry are squandering resources on incentives that fail to spark long - term economic growth, a California - based study concludes.

In an exclusive interview with Class News» parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan, Mr Hammond who is also the MP for Adansi Asokwa said the corporation was engrossed in activities outside its core mandate, and by so doing, squandering its resources.

Here are four CX myths your company can avoid that could hurt your bottom line, squander your resources and damage your brand:

Equally problematic, a turnaround is an expensive substitute — in terms of squandered resources and the toll its takes on associates — for serial innovation.

America has squandered its resources in the pursuit of a balance of power in the small.

They were lost causes anyway so he didn't squander any resources and Hillary's margins in those increased proportionally.

After the vote was in, the Working Families Party issued a bitter statement, saying the governor had squandered his resources on a «fake» party, Cuomo's newly created Women's Equality Party, and that he had let Democrats in the legislature and in Congress «wither on the vine».

Broadly speaking, Cuomo's upstate economic development strategy remains heavily weighted toward dubious business tax breaks, while his transportation policies still squander resources on stuff like a toll freeze for Thruway drivers.

New eco-clothes are still new clothes, and the fashion industry's insistence that one season's cool togs are the next season's trash spurs us to squander resources: Americans discarded 8,640,000 tons of clothing and footwear in 2006, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates of municipal solid waste generation — a quantity that has more than doubled since 1990.

The United States is needlessly penalizing itself and squandering its resource endowment, all because of the big lie that carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming.

The politicians in power can not squander the resources of our state at the expense of all future generations.

Europe squandered its resources on government specified inefficient technologies.

An Ontario Superior Court judge had some scathing words last week for Legal Aid Ontario about what he viewed as squandered resources in a recent family law case.

In a work world that demands high quality performance, people can not squander the resources they have available.

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In developed countries, food is a plentiful resource we readily squander, yet our overproduction and underconsumption is ruinous for the world.

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.

In that sense not only have those resources been squandered but their diversion may have depleted the true comparative advantages in financial services that the US h

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.

But lest such a remarkable human resource like Filner be squandered by a party engaged in too many bold initiatives for overcoming blinkered pre-2009 conceptions of legality to keep track of, this George Will column shows us precisely where he is needed: at the head of the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Thus, elites squander scarce resources on Western luxury items and others scramble to migrate to a better life.

Limited land and water resources are squandered.

You just said Brendan Rodgers spent # 200m in the last 2 transfers widow, and he did not meet the high expectations of the owners of Liverpool FC and thus got the sack for squandering the club's financial resources on transfers without matching it with the commensurate results on the field of play.

Huge amounts of resources that could have been used to create incentives are instead squandered away without receiving anything in return.

BecauseI'm worried that we may squander our human resources, much as we squandered our petroleum resources.

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.

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.

«So, the blame goes back again to the previous government, the PDP government which squandered and damaged the resources of our country.

He said, «I had applied to EFCC to investigate Chime, his children and associates, who squandered and cannibalized the state resources and properties by the virtue of the act establishing EFCC.

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.

«Squandering the huge amount of resources to do any more than the marketplace is already doing doesn't make a lot of sense to me,» Pyle said.

Robert Richardson warns us of the perils of squandering our limited helium resources (14 August, p 29).

We at plentyfishofdating.com have always felt the powerful resource online dating presents, goes largely squandered.

If neglecting your duty to intercept an international arms dealer and instead squandering government personnel and resources on a personal agenda is funny, then This Means War should be hilarious.

The rate of job formation is high, and the costs per transaction are low, so few scarce resources are squandered in setting the wages and conditions of employment.

Don't squander a precious resource!

The culture of schooling, and of school reform itself, has avoided a reckoning with what successful organizations have always known: Time and energy are precious, limited resources, and if we squander them on too many initiatives or on the wrong ones, we will fail.

But before we get too concerned about cuts (and many cuts are cuts in growth; many layoffs are reductions in open positions), we should think about the ways that the education establishment squanders scarce taxpayer resources.

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.

Evidence about the use of teacher time (e.g., Hargreaves, 1990, 1992, 1994) acknowledges that it is a finite and valuable resource that is sometimes squandered by competing demands and conflicting priorities.

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

Publishing is incredibly dynamic and time is a resource none of us can afford to squander.

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.

«In my tribe, the Chewa, excess time and resources are not sold; instead it is squandered in «useless» activities such as the arts, funerals, initiations etc. — all led by Nyau masks,» he says.

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.»