Sentence examples for instead of squandering from inspiring English sources

Instead of squandering money keeping people on the dole sinking into despair, we spend money reviving the economy by building up assets we'll value for generations.

Instead of squandering money in transfer markets, German clubs now invest nearly €100m a year in academies (incidentally boosting Germany's chances of World Cup success).

Instead of squandering the army's proud association with the founding of the nation, the Indonesian Army embraced freedom and popular sovereignty.

Instead of squandering more than $100 million on an ad campaign (Advertising column, Aug. 27), why doesn't the Postal Service try putting out a few more collection boxes?

If, for example, instead of squandering such staggering amounts of federal money on tax cuts and an ill-advised war, we had invested wisely in some of the nation's pressing needs.

Instead of squandering billions of pounds of taxpayers' money which could be better spent elsewhere, the government must listen to the barrage of criticism and shelve its plans for Titan, before these mega-prisons become a disastrous reality.

Such immense entrepreneurial energy, instead of being squandered through these failed ventures, needs to be harnessed and put to GDP-building and job-creating work.

Such a kingdom in the region would be large, powerful and rich enough (with income from Iraq's oil used to build infrastructure and raise living standards instead of being squandered on arms) to balance Saudi Arabia and help the West destroy fundamentalist terrorism.

To Martin Wilson, a gray-bearded Vietnam War veteran who served in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia, an attack on Syria would only continue a habit of squandering money and lives abroad instead of building the nation's security at home.

But the hard-core supporters have soldiered on, like the pickets today who accused Blue Cross and other health insurers and H.M.O.'s of squandering money to fight the referendum instead of spending it on patients.

Of squandering the savings of mothers-in-law.