Sentence examples for appear wasteful from inspiring English sources

This is because he does not want to appear wasteful.

To an outsider, the exploration of thousands of molecules to find a small number of potential candidate drugs must appear enormously wasteful, but many medicinal chemists would defend this waste as unavoidable.

The workplace isn't the only arena where meetings appear more wasteful than they really are.

At first sight, cleavage and reactivation of the acyl CoA appears energetically wasteful, since the equivalent of two molecules of ATP are used per activation reaction.

For those who have been patients in their own or other emergency departments, they likely encountered numerous steps that at least on the surface appear redundant or wasteful.

To a generation of architects absorbed by the idea of engineering communal living in tower blocks and forging streets in the sky, the low-density suburbs appeared unstructured and wasteful, a place of aimless, endless sprawl.

At first glance, the increased dependence of cancer cells on glycolysis for energy production appears energetically wasteful and would appear to represent a disadvantage for cell growth.

People are wasteful, wasted, wasting away".

But now federal farm subsidies, long decried by policy makers as wasteful and antiquated but protected by powerful political interests, appear to be in serious danger.

Last month, China's Central Bank called for stricter supervision of bank loans because some stimulus spending appeared to be for wasteful government projects.

Couple that wastage with the excessive levels of hunger in America, where nearly 50 million citizens (about 15percentt of the population, many of them children and seniors) live in poverty[iv] and our wasteful behavior appears irrational.