How To Use Squandering In A Sentence
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They are the ones guilty of squandering money.
The Sun
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He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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To their discredit, they were guilty of squandering some great chance in the second quarter during a period when they were in complete control.
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more wasteful than the squandering of time
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I delight in public demonstrations that advance progressive causes -- and so I will go -- but first allow me to explain why Stewart's attempt to frame the rally apolitically is tragic and the squandering of the greatest opportunity to reinvigorate progressive movement politics in years.
Rizvi Qureshi: Against Jon Stewart: Restoring Sanity or Restoring Spectatorship?
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No temptation Thus, persistent gambling or the squandering of large sums of money upon it has been regarded as a sin.
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Mr Yeo warned the whole event was in danger of becoming bogged down in costly bureaucracy, and that the Government was in danger of squandering a valuable opportunity to promote Britain.
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The squandering of funds and reported misuse of the resources have already degraded the personality of the hero that the movie wants to depict.
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They are the ones guilty of squandering money.
The Sun
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We cannot allow our young people to become malnourished, squandering their childhood and vitality hunched over computer consoles and gorging on junk food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last night, he said it had betrayed millions of people by squandering its opportunity to become a major political party.
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This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.
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This is a financial scandal of the highest order - a wilful, calculated and entirely deliberate squandering of other people's money.
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The 34-year-old said she claimed the cash because her husband, who was taking home £20,000 a year, was squandering the money on drugs.
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We found him standing on a table in a saloon, with an old tin lantern in one hand and the school report in the other, haranguing a gang of "corned" miners on the iniquity of squandering the public money on education "when hundreds and hundreds of honest, hard-working men were literally starving for whiskey.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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In addition to squandering a large part of Britain's patrimony of civilized institutions, this neo-liberal project of refashioning social life on a primitive model of market exchange has speeded the delegitimation of established institutions of such as the monarchy and the Church.
The credit crunch will do for Margaret Thatcher's reputation
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So, instead of biting the bullet and knocking out realistically unsustainable channels, with the exception of ITV2+1 which was KO'ed, they carry on regardless squandering more money on feckless retards who know f'ck-all about real life but have pieces of paper stuck on the wall above their desk (or really know how to retrieve a thrupenny bit
Army Rumour Service
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But no less dreadful is the sense that for many years, the state of Israel has been squandering not only the lives of its children but also the miracle it experienced — the great and rare opportunity bestowed upon it by history, the opportunity to create an enlightened, decent, democratic state that would conduct itself according to Jewish and universal values.
Unforgiven
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Not to include Parades burials and VA functions to have Albert Laughter arriving hours late, not in uniform and squandering credit and taking monies from the Gourd Society then leaving briefly approximately staying 1-2 hours tops, while my comrades and myself worked Volunteer 16-18 hours or more at these functions, and did not take any monies whatsoever.
Dave M Murphy
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They are the ones guilty of squandering money.
The Sun
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The term is kind of oxymoronic, since it is clear that by resorting to war and to threats of war, and by squandering unprecedented sums of money on the military, eight years of bellicosity has not made the nation more secure.
Foreign Policy and National Security Are Not the Same Thing
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reckless squandering of public funds
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Nile,593 and squandering the rest of my money in feasting and carousing till the time drew near for the departure of my uncles, when I fled from them and hid myself.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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During his time as governor, the enemies were student protesters who, Reagan argued, were squandering the opportunities hard-working taxpayers so kindly provided.
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He foresaw the grim possibility of American garrisons in distant corners of the world, a vast permanent military establishment, an intolerant "democratism" imposed in the name of the American way of life, neglect of America's domestic concerns in the pursuit of transoceanic power, squandering of American resources upon amorphous international designs, the decay of liberty at home in proportion as America presumed to govern the world: that is, the "garrison state," a term he employed more than once.
The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft: War, the Enemy of the Constitution.
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We cannot allow our young people to become malnourished, squandering their childhood and vitality hunched over computer consoles and gorging on junk food.
Times, Sunday Times
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$40 B slashed from the neediest Americans while squandering $9 B per month on an unjust war.
Think Progress » Cheney Casts Deciding Vote to Pass Budget That Hammers the Poor
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Also take care to note that several families are still unsure of how they'll be able to make ends meet while the primary breadwinner is gone obviously they've been squandering the "vast" piles of cash the government has been giving them.
Military Pay
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A washed-out match may present the Windies with their best chance of avoiding another defeat after squandering a terrific opportunity at St George's Park.
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He has strained against every nettlesome one of them - counter-attacking and squandering valuable time that should have been used to promote his message.
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Despite squandering a fine chance early in the second - half, Emile Heskey was also resolutely on - message.
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But the rest of you, squandering money to quench your thirst with a drink more expensive than petrol, you're just weak-willed and wet.
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Voters seem unbothered, noting the centre-Left spent five years squandering opportunities to resolve the issue.
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Others might grow poor squandering resources by living dissolutely.
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I didn't care over-weeningly for it for personal gratification; and in my philosophy I completed the circle, finding myself as equable with the lack of a ten-cent piece as I was with the squandering of scores of dollars in calling all men and hangers-on up to the bar to drink with me.
Chapter 18
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Our verdict: this policy is ill-considered, and the military is squandering a golden moment to effect meaningful personnel reform.
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Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
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He should understand that hard-working British taxpayers do not want him squandering our tax money overseas when it could be used to help British people.
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He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet there is a hint of trepidation as he voices his fears that his team might struggle to get out of their squandering habits.
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He has strained against every nettlesome one of them - counter-attacking and squandering valuable time that should have been used to promote his message.
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More than most well-educated, middle-class talents of his generation, he footled his life away as a forlorn, frustrated flaneur, squandering several inherited fortunes to achieve renown only under a false name playing an elaborate practical joke.
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There's so much to do in Vegas that squandering your money at the tables seems like a waste.
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He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are the ones guilty of squandering money.
The Sun
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He has strained against every nettlesome one of them - counter-attacking and squandering valuable time that should have been used to promote his message.
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Having so much money - and squandering it with such reckless stupidity - should have disqualified her from state aid for life.
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I wondered what on earth a self-proclaimed organic gardener was doing with a stock of resource-squandering, non-returnable containers in the first place.
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Part of the problem was that Paramount was worried they were squandering the momentum of the fourth film but an extra six months used to come up with an interesting and satisfying story as opposed to dreck is never wasted.
15 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Rather than giving to those countries in most need, O'Neill said, ‘We have an obligation to plant our resources where they will yield growth, rather than squandering precious seeds in unfertile soil.’
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To wash their hands before meals and after , after squandering water use cloth wipe away.
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He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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We cannot allow our young people to become malnourished, squandering their childhood and vitality hunched over computer consoles and gorging on junk food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
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- With such capabilities, this guy could be an ultimate multilinguist if there ever was one instead of squandering his abilities on rapping in a fake language ... angstrom
Klingon-Language Rapper
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Otherwise, he becomes a bitter-ender whose vote may in the end not be big enough to matter anyway, thus squandering his advantage.
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Insofar as someone in a sufficiently blissful stupor had no opportunity to reflect that, say, they were squandering their capacities by not reading Proust or listening to Wagner, I think the mental-state welfarist is hard pressed to seriously aver that this person is experiencing less subjective happiness, from a God Who Loves You perspective, than someone who has the enjoyment of realizing their capacities.
Happiness Redux
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We cannot allow our young people to become malnourished, squandering their childhood and vitality hunched over computer consoles and gorging on junk food.
Times, Sunday Times
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For those Moms, like me, who say it is outrageous that many food producers are refusing to end the practice of misusing our antibiotics -- putting our kids' health at risk and potentially squandering medicine's first miracle drug -- just to cut costs -- can call their congressperson to support the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act.
Laurie David: This Is the Game Changer!
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County were on top in the first half but never looked entirely comfortable and reverted to their old ways of squandering chances even given the mitigating factor of the very muddy goalmouths.
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Why, why, why is the United States still squandering lives and badly needed treasure fighting a raggle-taggle of foreign fighters defending their countries that have been invaded and occupied by Americans?????
The year in politics
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- With such capabilities, this guy could be an ultimate multilinguist if there ever was one instead of squandering his abilities on rapping in a fake language ... angstrom
Klingon-Language Rapper » E-Mail
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But, as he regretfully learned, his adoptees' public high schools were so bad that many of the kids dropped out, squandering an extraordinary opportunity.
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The Appeal Court heard that the then 25-year-old Wilkinson had been a Sheffield University drop-out squandering his inheritance on drink and drugs.
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Toronto and Waterloo spent most of the first half exchanging the ball via punts and squandering opportunities.
