Sentence examples for about squandering from inspiring English sources

After the end of World War II, the city set about squandering its ancestral advantages.

And remember how, little by little, it went about squandering that premise?

In the days of frothy asset markets, American consumers had no compunction about squandering their savings and spending beyond their incomes.

There is nothing fiscally conservative about squandering a federal surplus by cutting taxes for the wealthy, thereby bestowing a huge federal debt on our children and grandchildren, while at the same time fighting a misbegotten war.

I don't think Wohlforth's Clinton-era conclusion that that "the chief threat" to global stability "is U.S. failure to do enough" has stood the test of time, and post-Iraq I worry more about squandering our advantages in reckless wars than failing to act boldly.

We both settled for season tickets in the moderately raucous Upper Barclay stand, and I periodically fantasise about squandering an enormous lottery win on a club still within touching distance of normality because it is owned not by billionaires but by mere millionaires (Delia Smith and her husband).

Peer writes about squandered aspirations, numbing brutalisation, and the shattering of dreams.

She painted the guitar and blue hat, posted the picture, and began getting comments about squandered opportunities and the rarely realized "15-watt bulb of hope dimly glowing in each message".

Anxieties about aging, mortality and declining sexual prowess run rampant through the pages of this book, as do problems with rebellious teenage children, regrets about squandered opportunities and worries about misplaced dreams and ideals.

National Republican officials and strategists, hopeful that the summer of 2015 would help set the stage for the retaking of the White House for the first time in eight years, are now fretting about squandered opportunities.

In new songs Mr. Zevon sang, deadpan, about someone who would like to be "bound and gagged, dragged behind a clownmobile" just to feel something; about Elvis Presley squandering his gift; and about feeling as if "you want to die but you just can't quit".