Sentences with phrase «squanders too»

Squandered too many chances today.

Now the networks are covering climate change but squandering too much of that coverage in trying to read Trump's Fox - addled mind and divine whether he accepts climate science.

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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.

For all the blather about eternal life, far too many squander the precious life they are given at first breath.

First he makes sure that this really is the content of his life, and his soul is too healthy and too proud to squander the least thing upon an inebriation.

They'll be gone all too soon, so don't squander the short season pondering what roasted strawberries might taste like without giving them a go.

It was too late, and his talent was already squandered.

sanchez too and özil squanders a lot of clear cut chances too... we absolutely need some killer finishers

If buts and maybes, Spurs had a similar season to Livs current one when we had Crouch Defoe and Pav, wouldn't really lose too many, but the 59 chances a game were squandered.

The former Cardiff City player is capable of excellence at times, but there are far too many occasions on which he squanders possession all too easily.

For too long, this area has been a vast wasteland tempting students to squander their lunch money on low nutrition choices like chips, sugary drinks, and other unhealthy foods.

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.

This generation, in his view, took too much during the good times, reaping the benefits of final salary pension schemes and free university education while squandering what wealth they had and failing to save, saddling younger generations with the public debt.

Robert Oxley, Campaign Director of Business for Britain, said: «We've been pouring more and more money into the EU every year, only to see far too much of it squandered.

But Kubrick, working from a script by Vladimir Nabokov, squanders the promising setup by suffusing the movie's midsection with a series of rambling and downright pointless interludes, with this particularly true of virtually everything involving Sellers» aggressively off - the - wall character (ie there are too many scenes, including one in which Quilty pretends to be a cop, that meander to an infuriating extent).

It's too bad The Five - Year Engagement's overlong, conventional last third squanders the goodwill built up in that sharply observed middle section.

What had the potential to be a great piece of DLC, is instead an all - too brief episode of missed opportunities and squandered potential starring a great heroine who deserves far better.

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

Regrettably, the opportunity is typically squandered, and such is the case with The Finest Hours, a decent dramatization that's too restrained and measured to be interesting.

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.

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.

This too often limits Kunis, Bell, and Hahn's time together on screen, thus squandering the chemistry between them that was the first film's highlight.

This is a film that has so much potential but squanders it on cliché and relies too heavily on it's leading actor.

That the film gets too wrapped up in the consequences of time - travel and fortunate coincidences to maintain the momentum it generates in its first half is a shame, as the effort spent establishing character and setting deserves more than to be squandered in this way.

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.

And yet, much still strains with squandered intentions: the feature's darkness that dissipates too quickly, its length that pushes many of the jokes past their prime, and the tiring repetition that eradicates any subtleties.

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.

The United States too often provides its disadvantaged students with a woefully inadequate education, thereby squandering the nation's extraordinary diversity, according to the Equity and Excellence Commission.

When a passing stranger makes him an offer that sounds too good to be true, Aaron starts down a path that could leave him and his sister, Lily, destitute.Can Lily catch the con man and stop Aaron from squandering all their savings on a scam?

But because I've been to the other side and I clearly know what I want out of this (all too short to be squandered) life.

These advantages can be squandered if the investor pays too high a price for his stock.

They are entirely too busy squandering a great inheritance.

I'm probably ragging on Wildlands a little too much, to be honest — a case of disappointment at an opportunity squandered more than anything else.

You can go on for ages as to why and how the Wii userbase was utterly squandered by companies who are now barely treading water or worse but this article highlights one very real and legitimate reason; they where too blind, ignorant and arrogant to try.

Need for Speed Payback squanders its open world on races against rubberbanding AI, linear escapes from a timer instead of the cops, and a broken economy that will leave you grinding for far too long.

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.

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.

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.»

Sadly too he squandered the fortune he had accumulated and his final years were unhappy.

We hope that battery life will increase every year, but all too often efficiency gains are squandered by increasingly svelte designs.

Yet too many job seekers squander this chance.

For too long funds have been squandered in the name of youth work, when all that has been occurring has been the work of the power bloc, producing people that will not challenge it, and thus contribute to building a more humane and just world.

Brokerage firms do not want to make the mistake of investing too heavily in new technology and squandering scarce resources, and they also do not want to be left behind.