Sentences with phrase «which squandered»

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

The second half petered out somewhat in the familiar fashion as both sides took the opportunity to make substitutions, although Raphael Varane had a fine chance from a set - piece which he 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.

Christopher Plummer confronts Nazi horrors again in Atom Egoyan's preposterous thriller, which squanders a terrific performance by the Oscar - winning actor.

Lewis, who turned 90 in March (he made this movie about four years ago), crankily mugs his way through much of the dirge that is «Max Rose,» which squanders a fine cast that includes Kevin Pollak, Mort Sahl and Illeana Douglas.

And the winner is... Love the Coopers, which squanders the likes of Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei, Alan Arkin, Olivia Wilde, June Squibb, Amanda Seyfried and Anthony Mackie in a Christmas comedy of numbing tedium and tackiness.

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

Not exact matches

Thanks to the aforementioned socially - aware millennial workforce, today's CEOs realize the importance of having a voice, especially in an age in which many government leaders have squandered their moral authority and public trust in corporate America is low.

I once read an article a decade or so ago, which stated that wealth builds up within a family and within 3 or 4 generations it is squandered away due to various reasons.

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.

Alvarado cites the example of German Calvinist political theorist Johannes Althusius, who defined the discipline of morals as «the inquisition into and chastisement of those morals and luxuries that are not prevented or punished by laws, but which corrupt the souls of subjects or squander their goods unproductively.»

If this does not occur, then the more knowledge increases, the more it becomes a kind of inhuman knowing for the production of which man's self is squandered, pretty much as men were squandered for the building of the Pyramids, or as men were squandered in the Russian horn - bands to produce one note, neither more nor less.

Alas, the movie completely squanders Rachel McAdams, a sin for which there can be no forgiveness.

He is ultimately critical of Picasso's having squandered his genius on the merely subjective and of the way in which Picasso's work ends in personal despair.

In a report commissioned by the BCA, consultants McKinsey said dairy was «a story of squandered potential», and pointed to the success of New Zealand's Dairy Industry Restructuring Act, which formed Fonterra.

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

Their last triumph came courtesy of that aforementioned 5 - 4 victory over Alaves in 2001 — a final in which the Reds twice squandered a two - goal lead, before securing victory in extra time (against nine men).

While 3 points are what we after, Ozil is laying many chances on the plate for Walcott and Giroud, which are being squandered.

This weekend's clash was a perfect example in which Walcott squandered a number of openings for the Gunners to turn the game on its head, but instead Theo done what he does best, much to the Gunners disappointment.

Aaron Ramsey squandered some good chances, but eventually he scored a deflected goal which he badly needed.

Another frustrating element of the game was how we couldn't capitalize on their defensive mistakes... Sakho gave the ball away countless times in dangerous areas, which we kept squandering... a more ruthless team would have made them pay.

He squandered birdie try after birdie try through his opening nine, which was the easier stretch of this Whistling Straits layout.

Further, the network didn't want to squander its exclusivity, which came at a pretty good price, by showing the tape before it could get the most viewers, which was in prime time the next night.

In theory the sale of one to enable the signing of a few could leave Tottenham in with a better shot at securing a Champions League return, however the way in which Andre Villas - Boas invested funds from Bale's sale, and the manner in which Brendan Rodgers squandered money from Luis Suarez's sale to Barcelona, prove that such a sale can set a club back a number of seasons.

Conversely, the Bills squandered a 15 - point lead last week against the Raiders, which dropped their record to 6 - 6 on the season.

For Arsenal, it will be a case of getting their title bid back on track by avenging the 3 - 2 reverse that was inflicted on them at the Emirates earlier in the season — when squandering a 2 - 0 lead to concede three second half goals — but also a 2 - 1 defeat in last term's White Hart Lane encounter which, at the time, ended the Gunners» hopes of securing the 2009/2010 Premier League.

Firmino squanders a decent chance in front of goal, which pretty much epitomizes this whole game.

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.

, then came into a sizeable inheritance which he began squandering so fast I called off the engagement for fear that his spending habits would carry over into our marriage.

His reaction came on the heels of a report by the Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, which revealed how over N11 trillion meant for the provision of electricity supply was allegedly squandered by the administrations of former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar» Adua and Jonathan.

«If Paladino gets on the ballot, which I believe he will, then Lazio will spend the next two months squandering what little money he has on a primary, with Cuomo just sitting back and enjoying the summer,» said one of the state's best - known Republican activists.

In one of the petitions, which was made available to one of our correspondents, the petitioners said the party might soon squander the opportunity it secured following the Supreme Court judgment, which sacked the former governor of Borno State.

«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.

Monies from SADA have been squandered, monies which were to be used to develop the North have vanished,» he said.

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.

In any case, a fair amount of the potentially useful chemical energy in the coal will be squandered in the form of energy inefficiency AKA entropy before the coal is converted to steam, which is then converted to the rotary motion of the dynamo, which is then converted to electicity, which is then shipped a really long distance to be converted back into rotary motion again.

No, we do not advise discovery a date at these places, which charge your money and squander your time.

You would have a hard time defining any of our leading characters here as geniuses, but the fact remains that they have potential which is being overlooked or squandered by the narrow - mindedness of the American education system.

The film version, written by four dudes who probably squandered a lot of quarters as teens, keeps the digital critters, which are now more convincingly fake thanks to CGI advancements.

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).

A fantastic game on which I have squandered well over 150 hours on and am still playing enthusiastically.

As with his two most celebrated departures, Punch Drunk Love and Funny People, there's a meta dimension to the part, which finds him playing a gifted artist who's squandered his talent.

Apart from a brief, glorious stretch during which Jack and Nancy actively despise each other, allowing Pegg and Bell to truly cut loose, Man Up mostly squanders a promising premise and hits a whole lot of familiar beats.

Squandered in the service of this often offensive adventure is a talented cast which includes Academy Award - winners Kathy Bates, Rachel Weisz and Kevin Spacey, nominees Miranda Richardson and Paul Giamatti, and cameos by overshadowed, celebrity siblings Roger Clinton, Frank Stallone and Stephen Baldwin, brothers of Bill, Sly and Alec, respectively.

What bothers me most about the film is that it squanders a solid grasp on slasher - movie conventions and, perhaps more importantly, on early - Eighties slasher - movie aesthetics, by which I mean the naturalistic minimalism we encounter in the first three Friday the 13th films.

None of those qualities remain in the apparent present day, which finds balding, messy Dean, his potential squandered, working as a house painter and Cindy as an undervalued nurse.

A scene in which crewman on the Nimitz clasp their hands to their heads as they travel through a wormhole, juxtaposed with newsreel footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor, elicits genuine pathos, however intentional, at opportunities squandered and historical tragedies re-experienced.

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.

In that spirit, Cedric Nicolas - Troyan's The Huntsman: Winter's War (hereafter Huntsman 2) reminds a lot of pleasant disasters like Ladyhawke and Krull, with its biggest crime maybe being that it's not ridiculous enough, given how the fantastic commitment of Charlize Theron, reprising her role from the previous film (which I'm sure I saw and probably reviewed), seems ultimately squandered.

It's an angst - driven piece full of squandered lives of people who are stuck in their stations in life, always dreaming of clawing their way out, but finding themselves forced to be that which they so desperately wish they no longer could be due to the boundaries set upon them by others.