Sentence examples for is largely squandered from inspiring English sources

They argue that the money, which could go toward building factories and other job-creating enterprises, is largely squandered.

If some goodwill is generated from the supporting cast (which includes strong, albeit small, performances from Steve Mouzakis and Fox), it is largely squandered by an out-there ending hard to accept on any level, literal or metaphoric.

The pity of it, as Ship of Fools points out, is that the boom years were largely squandered.

Dennis was always the first to admit that his story was one of enormous potential that was largely squandered, undermined by a rebellious nature and self-destructive hedonism.

However, the Blair family fortune – which had been largely squandered by the time Eric was born – stemmed from their investments in plantations far from India.

Standard U.S. doctrine, on the other hand, called for fighting in column, employing guns as the primary weapon; the advantages that should have accrued to the Americans at night from superior radar were largely squandered.

The Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, recently pledged to give away his more than $40 billion fortune, but an early $100 million investment in the Newark public school system was largely squandered.

The chief difference between the development of the two sopranos was that Nilsson, like Flagstad, took years to discover and strengthen her voice, mostly in Sweden, while Varnay's voice was largely squandered by the Met from 1941 on, a victim of exploitative (male) management.

But any good will generated in that moment was largely squandered by an ugly incident at the 2010 Gathering of the Juggalos, at which the singer and reality star Tila Tequila was attacked during a performance by audience members who bombarded her with rocks, firecrackers, glass bottles and human waste.

"The opportunity to build a safer, fairer and more united world has been largely squandered".

More than $100 billion in "aid" has been largely squandered.