Sentence examples for lives wasted from inspiring English sources

But this play is a broader lament, one for lives wasted, either squandered or stolen.

But all the people behind him pay the price: five minutes of their lives wasted by this annoying stunt.

For Eastern Europeans who had seen large chunks of their working lives wasted by communism, starting a business offered the chance to catch up.

"It's just a nightmare to see two children killed like this," Mr. Romankow said yesterday, "to see their lives wasted like this".

Children someday will study the Great Immigration Panic of the early 2000s, which harmed countless lives, wasted billions of dollars and mocked the nation's most deeply held values.

The second world war, also with its ageing witnesses, did not dog people so.The Great War came to signify lives wasted to no purpose; in that, it had no rivals.

Some experts fear that at-home defibrillators may actually cost lives, wasting precious minutes while distraught family members try to use the defibrillator instead of calling 911 for help.

But with people's lives being wasted like that, it's worth giving them a little more attention".

Cutting your losses is sometimes the sensible thing to do, even for a superpower, and even after paying a heavy price in lost lives and wasted money.

"Money, time and lives are wasted with the current policies.

"The tragedy is often there are quite minor problems and they have spent years, in some cases, of their lives, really wasted," he said.