Sentence examples for amounted to wasting from inspiring English sources

On Thursday, Mr. Walcott said the $100 million or so the city spent each year on these teachers' and other school staff salaries amounted to "wasting it on teachers who probably chose the wrong profession".

In the campaign that led to his election six years ago last night, Schwarzenegger was armed by private polling showing that most California voters believed that one-third of state spending amounted to "waste, fraud, and abuse".

I could find nothing in her personality profile that might lead to attention-seeking or a lowered threshold for histrionic or antisocial behaviour that might amount to wasting police time".

The washing robot does not have a locomotive mechanism because such would amount to wasted resources considering the 15 min spent on washing one location.

Any additional spending after attaining this level would amount to waste since that level cannot be exceeded.

In other words, these units remain idle for the major part of the time horizon, amounting to wasted return on capital investment.

Lawyer for the protesters Adrienne Copithorne said: "The council's attempt to stop it [the claim] has amounted to a waste of time and public funds.

Getting worked up over Trump's tweets has long amounted to a waste of energy.

This was an issue very close to my heart — too close, obviously, as it amounted to a complete waste.

But the city's director of municipal utilities, Vicky L. Murphy, pointed out that drilling waste amounted to less than 1 percent of all the waste treated at the plant.

Last year, Tesco's food waste mountain amounted to 59,400 tonnes.