Sentence examples for managed to waste from inspiring English sources

In fact, the Commission on Elections managed to waste billions of pesos on half-implemented schemes, including a national database of voters and an electronically transmitted "quick count" of results to complement the painstakingly slow official paper-trail.

While Marvel managed to waste a great deal of extraordinary talent by discarding villains within one film (Hugo Weaving, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Redford), by gradually introducing the Purple Man they have finally produced a real villain.

The Werder Bremen midfielder scored the winning goal to pile more relegation worries on to Mirko Slomka's side but had managed to waste two more opportunities when it might have been better to pass the ball.

Özil missed a good chance at the start of the second half by shooting too close to Patrício with all the time and space he needed to do better, then Götze managed to waste an even more inviting opportunity from André Schürrle's alert pass, failing to act decisively when the ball came across and allowing the Portugal defence to get back to cover.

With that one sentence, Lady Montdore was completely won over and I managed to waste 100 pages talking about how much fun she was having, how young she was looking and how devoted she was to Cedric while nothing much else happened.

The Mongols did manage to waste a lot of Syria, but then a smaller Mongol army met up with an army of Mameluke slave mercenaries from Egypt who defeated them and captured and killed Kit-Buqa, Hulagu's best general.

Fortunately, most of the 650 million people who board a domestic flight each year are not afflicted with such attacks of honesty, but they still manage to waste a lot of time.

Given the amount of money the government manages to waste on not being able to make up its mind on Hinkley Point C, HS2, London's third runway and Brexit, a few million quid to Britain's cyclists to cheer us all up once every four years seems like money very well spent.

"We have managed to remove legacy waste from the site instead of leaving it for future generations to manage.

It managed to achieve a waste recycling rate by August 2008, in the midst of the fit-out, of an impressive 92%, well above the initial target of 55%.

After advice from the council and being given a food waste bin, they managed to cut down their waste but still could not manage a four-week collection cycle.