Sentence examples for a waste of capital from inspiring English sources
"That's a waste of capital for something that might not be utilized for 20 to 30 years," said David MacMillan, president and co-founder of MegaWatt Storage Farms, an energy storage developer and adviser.
The debate began on Monday, when the Dubai government said it would not guarantee the debts of Dubai World and hinschelwood asked: "Is this proof that getting slaves to tip sand into the sea isn't a good investment?" "Full many a tower Is built to be unfilled And a waste of capital In the desert air".
Yet, while every coal mine closed is lamented as a waste of industrial capital, the immensely larger destruction of natural capital caused by not maximising renewable energy production has been ignored - until the WFC calculated it.
"If AOL continues to tilt at windmills in terms of trying to generate spectacular growth, I think it will be a waste of shareholders' capital," said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at the Soundview Technology Group.
Such a proposal would have been a waste of political capital and almost certainly would have failed.
For example, they've proposed reversing the increase in the retirement age for civil servants, which would be a waste of human capital.
For people who live in cities where gun violence is not some incomprehensible abstraction in the news but a heart-shattering reality in their community, trying to ban assault weapons increasingly seems like a fool's errand or at least a waste of political capital.
That stance is stupid and outdated, not to mention a waste of their political capital (if Ukip have any), but it's a view they're entitled to.
Pushing ahead with shale gas extraction is a waste of effort and capital at a time when we need to be looking for ways to use less, not more fossil fuels.
The alternative, which is a knee-jerk reaction of individual countries' suboptimal and unsuccessful recapitalization of interconnected national banks, will be a waste of scarce economic capital in the EU.
