Sentence examples for gross waste from inspiring English sources

Another part of the campaign has been an effort to reduce gross waste at meals.

"I didn't lie and the prosecution, in my view, was a gross waste of public money.

It is a gross waste to include them in a fish pie.

They got the surprising bit right: just five years after opening, The Public arts centre in the West Midlands now faces closure, having been slammed by the government as "a gross waste of public money".

— Standing outside the headquarters of Solyndra, the solar-panel company that filed for bankruptcy protection last year after receiving $528 million in federal loan guarantees, Mitt Romney decried the shuttered business as "a symbol of gross waste" and as an example of President Obama's poor stewardship of a shaky economy.

To further characterise wastes identified by the seven wastes strategy, the classification presented in Table 2 was used to differentiate waste into gross waste (level 1), process and method waste (level 2) and micro waste (level 3).

He accused the firm's major investors and board members of "breaches of fiduciary duties, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment".

In addition, the Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee for small creditors, has asked Judge Bennett for a full independent review of the sewer system's finances, as well as what it has called "poor planning, gross incompetence, waste, graft, corruption or fraud in connection with the construction, repair or rehabilitation" of the sewer system since 1997.

There was gross quadriceps wasting, the patella tendon was not palpable, and the patella was proximally displaced.

In some cases, citizens become comfortably numb to bad legislation, not understanding how stupid laws can lead to gross injustices, wasting taxpayer resources and destroying the fabric of society.

The most recent, filed on 22 July in a New York district court, seeks compensation and other damages for what the shareholders describe as "gross mismanagement" and "waste of corporate assets".