Sentences with phrase «squanders even»

At present, the vast cornucopia of genetic material is being squandered even though there are practical and economic reasons for its conservation.

-- and they squandered it even worse: They turned it into a morass of Three Stooges - level slapstick and juvenile - style playground taunting.

«How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation?

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

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.

Even Christianity Today, Henry thought, had squandered an opportune moment by moving from Washington to the evangelical hinterland near Wheaton, by becoming a populist organ rather than challenging the cognitive frontiers of the era, and by becoming obsessed (for a while) with the intra-evangelical debate over biblical inerrancy.

I am very grateful that I still have a life... Even a Diminished life, is still a life that is not to be squandered.

Sterling was granted clear - cut chances aplenty and even squandered a chance from just six - yards when Hugo Lloris was nowhere to be seen.

Even so, it's weird, it would seem Arsene might not have lost that early magic, as it's been pilferage or squandered in some way or another.

Southampton have squandered a golden opportunity to get back into their Europa League clash with Inter Milan this evening.

At Chelsea (home) last year he squandered 3 absolute sitters and i am not even going to bring up Monaco where he could have scored 5 in the first leg.

The team was set to counter and the man he can't even run one yard with the ball (remember his goal against Aston Villa almost squandered the beauty from Ozil, he was alone and failed to run the ball).

They could even afford another squandered missed penalty, a fourth in succession at Anfield, as James Milner missed his second in a row having scored his first 10 for the club.

Indeed, the visiting team squandered a golden chance to wrap up the encounter when referee Damir Skomina awarded a penalty after Fabio Coentrao's cross struck Lukasz Piszczek on the arm, even though the contact appeared to have taken place outside the area.

Nathan Redmond and Shane Long earlier squandered good chances for Southampton before the hosts went in front through Diouf - the striker nodding home Xherdan Shaqiri's excellent delivery to break the deadlock in an even encounter.

The scoreline, which equals Barcelona's worst ever Champions League defeat, could have been even worse on an awful night for the Spaniards, who also squandered the chance to grab an away goal when Samuel Umtiti's header struck the post from point - blank range.

Entering Wembley Wednesday evening, Juventus and Tottenham were square 2 - 2 on aggregate, but the Italian's trailed on away goals and needed to rebound after they squandered their advantage weeks ago.

And it was even alleged that about N2 billion naira was squandered by the team.

Only after squandering his family inheritance did Joseph - Marie reconsider — and even then, instead of becoming a master weaver, he invented a machine to save himself the labor.

It leaves women with 20, 30, perhaps even 50 years of life — squandered time in evolutionary terms, because no further genes can be passed on.

But it's even sadder that that privilege is so often squandered.

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 a complacency to the storytelling that prevents the film from ever moving outside its comfort zone, even though that's exactly what it should be doing, while the talented ensemble cast is squandered in marginal roles.

But even these moments are somewhat squandered, with many of them cropping back up as side missions too.

In the tradition of Scarface, Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street — so basically, all the classic American Scumbag movies — with a dash of The Big Short thrown in for a falsely moralizing ending, War Dogs is a sweaty, bro - y, barely even sheepish celebration of Bush - era amorality dressed in coke and cash that squanders a brilliant scumbag performance from Jonah Hill.

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.

Frankly, the «Extended Cut Version» (ECV) is self - indulgent at best, and the sequence with Doug taking Claire to visit her boss in the hospital should've stayed on the cutting - room floor, period, even if reinstating it assuaged co - writer / director / star Ben Affleck's guilt for grotesquely squandering Victor Garber.

Although too much emphasis is placed on Faris» unique comic presence, the supporting males have promise, even if Community's Joel McHale, Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt and Aziz Ansari, and The Office's Martin Freeman are squandered in small roles.

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.»

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.

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.

Like the first movie, the sequel squanders its promising satirical premise — gender politics in the media in the first movie and the advent of the 24 - hour news channel in this one — for gags that really have nothing to do with the situation or even the characters.

Not that Lawrence's comic talents haven't already been squandered in his recent projects; even his two big breakthroughs, Blue Streak and Big Momma's House, fell short of showing what he's capable of.

ruh roh... looks like we are back to «not dating» hahahahaha I don't think I could even squander out a C - for this one..

Ghost Ship actually begins on a promising note, before entirely squandering this with a story that doesn't even make sense on its own terms.

While there's plenty of collectibles to find and side missions to complete, the lack of any atmosphere when walking around town squanders the appeal of the game even further.

Even Clooney squanders his dapper appeal as the buffoon Baird, a hard - partying star so easily duped he almost renounces fame and fortune for a little quality time debating Hegel with the kidnappers.

That said, Petrilli and others who favor stronger oversight are on solid ground when they note that when taxpayers are paying for it, the public has a right, even an obligation, to make sure the money's not squandered.

Malloy not only squandered the opportunity to develop a constitutionally adequate school funding system, he used his budget authority to make the state's school funding programs even more unfair.

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.

They easily squander away shareholders cash and no one ever even hears about it.

I doubt if any Government, however foolish, however desirous of squandering the taxpayers» money, would perpetrate the absurdity of bringing cats from Siberia to a cat - infested country Even if each such cat caught daily three more rats than an ordinary cat, would the purchase be worthwhile?

I don't even like to think about the frequent flier miles I've squandered over a lifetime.

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.

The complaint I had is that the game is an adequate shooter which squanders a great premise and even better setting.

She seems to care little for surfaces and even less for her palette: lumpy, grayish figures lie casually upon the surface of the canvas, craftsmanship is squandered, and colors are straight out of the tube.

And at 14 % in the last 30 years, even the wildest negative predictions of CO2's effect on mankind doesn't come close to the benefit we are squandering right now.

Even in a country like Canada, where hockey is a priority, an obsession, we're squandering a huge amount of hockey talent without realizing it.

That sheepish admission and others were about the only candid moments that the hearing produced, as it swung from Russian intelligence operations to Islamic extremists and even to a predictably useless interlude from Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who squandered his time with a distracting line of questioning that accused the companies of partisanship.