Sentence examples for because of inefficiency from inspiring English sources

Although the process should be simple, Mr. O'Keefe said, receiving a zoning permit can often take weeks or months because of inefficiency or resistance from town officials.

This is not because of inefficiency on farms; it is due to the drive for ever cheaper milk, which means only a few will be left standing.

Donors often argue that they cannot "buy locally" because of inefficiency, corruption, and important financial risks posed by doing business in developing countries.

The drawback of this technique is that the target gain is reduced because of inefficiency in converting the driver energy to X-rays.

Auditors last year said Pertamina had lost about $4 billion between 1996 and 1998 because of inefficiency and corrupt contracts, most involving friends and children of former President Suharto.

There is no need to keep military spending level — the money is going largely to maintain a military that is increasingly less effective in meeting future security challenges, and hundreds of millions of dollars are squandered because of inefficiency, poor budgeting and greed.

The G.A.O found that nearly $300 million was lost because of inefficiencies in the program.

In actual practice, the SFC is even higher than this lower limit because of inefficiencies, losses, and leakages in the individual components of the prime mover.

Aircraft are unnecessarily pumping huge quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere because of inefficiencies in a system for which governments are partly to blame.

Its average length of stay is longer than most hospitals' -- partly because its patients tend to be sicker, but also because of inefficiencies that are common, some say inherent, in teaching hospitals.

In every country in the world, electricity use has generally grown faster than the G.D.P. Electricity is necessary for nearly all productive activities, and because of inefficiencies, consumption of electricity has generally outstripped economic growth.