Sentence examples for make poor use from inspiring English sources

Colonel Qaddafi's men have better weapons than the rebels but often make poor use of them.

We need councils to avoid the temptation to over-control things, to give us lists of what budgets can buy, to use secretive panels to scrutinise our plans, and to make poor use of pre-paid cards.

This wastes scarce aid budgets and fosters the sort of inefficient and corrupt systems against which you rightly argue.CLARE SHORTSecretary of State, Department for International DevelopmentLondonSIR Poor countries with poor policies make poor use of donor aid.

She harmonises with herself immaculately over the snap and thump of Kurstin's groove for "Aftertaste", but the results sound tart and brittle; while elsewhere, the vocal treatments applied to "Don't Need Nobody" and "We Can't Move to This" make poor use of her greatest asset.

Trial and error approaches toward selecting CE parameter values make poor use of available resources.

At the TED 2010 conference, he stated that "we make poor use of our talents".

Both of these ballets made poor use of their music.

Nevertheless, the reality is that British politics makes poor use of its elders, who are denied their own sort of standing.

The lightly armed and armoured IB performed adequately in these campaigns because it was used in massed formations and because opposing forces made poor use of antitank weapons.

Set to music by Jamie Begian, it made poor use of a hat, a bag and a pair of underwear, which Clinton Edward Martin wore on his head.

(Scott) 'LUST, CAUTION' (NC-17, 2:38, in Mandarin) A sleepy, musty period drama about wartime maneuvers and bedroom calisthenics that makes poor use of the otherwise solid director Ang Lee and the great Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.