Sentence examples for is time squandered from inspiring English sources

Voters don't care about it, the old hands say, and time spent on what's happening overseas is time squandered.

The chair of the select committee, Emma Nicholson, said the government had made a good start on a horrific issue, but "if that good start is not to be squandered it is time for a clear strategic plan on how to take forward the battle against sexual violence in conflict".

"It is time for the cover-ups, the lies, the corruption and the squandering of taxpayers' money to end".

This is time-consuming, and risks squandering the honeymoon on which Lula depends to enact his main reforms.

As the Yankees often had their way in the Steinbrenner age, there were times when they squandered home-grown talent in the lust for expensive free agents.

He considered all this time squandered.

Precious time is squandered interviewing current longtime residents (including the inevitable part-time transvestite), who have little to say beyond the obvious.

They have a business schedule to keep also and want to be careful that the interview time is not squandered.

Time is easily squandered but then one day you wake up and realize you're quite a lot older than that free layabout in your mind.

Much newsprint and air time were squandered in the first half of the "decade before the storm" on revelations of sexual impropriety in the Oval Office and the inconsequential ripples from the Whitewater scandal.

Despite the good intentions and great experience in the room, the painful truth is that precious time and energy is frequently squandered by directors and startup CEOs.