Sentences with phrase «while squandering»

The last four years have been especially comical, leaving teachers and parents without a consistent understanding of achievement while squandering valuable learning time for students.

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.

They were there to entertain us and lose, all while squandering real talent along the way.

«While some squandered the opportunity to «dent the universe,»» he wrote, «others never cared about doing so in the first place.

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But Exxon's earnings are also a reminder of how, while some lawmakers are quick to join in the chorus of complaints about profitability, it is companies like Exxon that send the bags of cash to Washington for Congress to squander.

One undisputed fact: the Manns» 17 - month delay in opening the Transylvania while they remodeled and raised capital squandered $ 34,000 in rental payments before they had earned a dime.

In some cases, they will mistrust parents whom they feel squandered opportunities in boom times, she says, while others from wealthier upbringings may think their family's good life is hopelessly out of reach.

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.

But via what we can charitably call a blind spot (while assuming it's something more sinister), it squanders credibility every year by pretending half the sport barely exists.

While a few players in the senior team (won't mention names) are out ere squandering precious chances..

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

Liverpool have conceded 17 goals in 12 league games, 11 more than Man Utd who boast the best defensive record in the league, while their failings were exposed in midweek as they squandered a 3 - 0 lead at Sevilla.

Klopp's side improved as Allen and Benteke both squandered presentable opportunities, while Joao Teixeira kept Randolph involved, drawing a stop with a firm strike from just inside the box having been teed up by Jordon Ibe.

While we admire Mr. Obama, we believe he squandered an opportunity to bring positive change to Washington - and what change he did bring will burden future generations.

This is also about the mega wealthy friends of a Mayor who has squandered hundreds of millions on a fraudulent time keeping system meant to monitor city employees while using less city employees.

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.

The Executive Director of CHCR while speaking with DAILY POST on Thursday accused the governor of squandering the money he collected from the Federal Government in April this year.

However, while some scientists agree that the project provides a unique opportunity to carry out innovative research, others suggest that the opportunities are being squandered by a short - sighted management.

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.

by Walter Chaw The first clue as to the vileness of Andy Tennant's Sweet Home Alabama is that it's named after a Lynyrd Skynrd song (paving the way, one supposes, for Freebird: The Movie and Smokestack Lightning); the second clue is that it's the first Reese Witherspoon picture in a while to find a way to squander her almost preternatural ability to salvage terrible scripts and spent concepts floating her way post-Election.

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.

If Zoolander 2 doesn't quite squander this maturity (the subject of fatherhood logically progresses, Antoine Doinel - like, from the romantic denouement of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), it also suggests a by - product of that picture's commercial failure and the Gen - X panic Stiller portrayed so adeptly in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young.

While the premise is intriguing, the movie is unfortunately an incoherent, aggressively dull mess that squanders an impressive ensemble cast of characters.

Equally mediocre is a Dolby 5.0 audio mix that squanders several opportunities for rustling atmospheric madness while giving over most of its fidelity to a recreation of the stock score; it's the kind of spooky music bullstuff one can probably find at the local Paper Warehouse round about this time of year.

While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all - seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.

Starvation is something scored to a whimsical Spanish guitar and neatly solved by squandered drunken weirdo Hellfrick (Donald Sutherland) borrowing two bits at one point and returning fifteen cents in another, while Arturo's imminent eviction is mentioned in passing and then forgotten for a long stretch in - between.

While this type of story, like Woody, is old and simple, underneath is a richer tale of squandered opportunities and grand desires unrealized, not just for one man, but for an entire community, state, region and, perhaps, an entire country as well.

But while 7 Boxes tries to excuse some of its dopey - ness by having its hero be an aspiring filmmaker who himself loves dumb action movies, it's not enough to redeem a movie that squanders such a great setting and set - up.

While there are a few moments of hope and possibility, they are soon squandered and crushed by sluggish pacing, a rushed climax, comical dialogue, a lack of constistant tone, and uneven chemistry between it's cast.

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.

Having to cover expenses while living within a strict budget teaches the teenager to save for important things rather than squandering it on unimportant things.

Now, while I believe this is all very good news for self - published authors, I have also seen these new opportunities squandered.

While Lil was busy being a proper Southern lady, Harlan squandered dang near the whole family fortune on lottery tickets.

Browsing in a bookshop feels like time well spent, while searching for a book online feel like squandered time — only the purchase counts.

And while youth itself is the biggest investing advantage available to anyone, most wait until 40 or so to start thinking about retirement, squandering this huge edge in the process.

While the company might manage to grow its earnings through acquisition, it's entirely possible that it will squander its earnings in attempting to do so.

While it may trade at net cash, I'm not confident that management will not squander it in an effort to come up with the «next best thing».

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.»

While there are characters who I feel are completely squandered, like Amarant and Freya, and at least one toss - away in the form of Quina, the rest of the crew is strong, playing off of each other quite well.

While there is a lot of heart to the idea, without anything interesting to fill the playtime, the game becomes a squandered opportunity.

Jobs range from standard fantasy fare such as knights and thieves to more surprising stuff like the merchant — a class that adds further tactical riches by letting you squander in - game currency in exchange for offensive oomph, all while wearing a snazzy top hat.

But while that might sound like heresy to fans, the most damning thing about Survive is how it squanders its own promise.

While the fossil fuel industry tries it hands at by squandering billions of dollars of research on unfeasible technical solutions such as geological sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants, soils are a natural solution which has been proven for hundreds of millions of years of biological and evolutionary history.

(07/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

Beyond high food prices, little to show for $ 11B / yr in biofuel support, says OECD report (7/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

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.»

While a cool environment can prolong a tomato's life, it comes at the loss of taste - hardly something that can be squandered when there's so little to begin with in hothouse tomatoes!

So how does a case like this wend its way through our clogged system, squandering scarce judicial and community resources, while no one watches the public purse?

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.

While the recognition of native title offered an opportunity to reframe the protection of Indigenous heritage within the broader framework of a human right to enjoy one's culture, governments have squandered this opportunity.