Sentence examples for misdirected spending from inspiring English sources

Then there's misdirected spending.

Trimming such misdirected spending would leave more for the neediest.

Hancock will need to ask this of transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin: where is your department's strategy, without which spending is potentially misdirected and wasteful – and why, by the way,are you still spending so much on consultants and subsidies to Network Rail?

The film's themes of regret, spent passion and misdirected desire show the influence of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey's ambassador to the international festival circuit, but its creative energy resides in the way it captures nature.

Residents complained that the money spent on the homes was misdirected and instead should have been given directly to victims.

Using the term in its broadest sense, our attention spends much of its time "misdirected" without any need for outside help.

There needs to be vigilance against bigotry and oppression, but the energy spent protesting "Carmina Burana" and "The Producers" is misdirected.

"In my judgment, Ms Smith misdirected herself by focusing on the nature and location of her job (where she spent her long working day) and not the nature and location of her overnight accommodation (where she went whenever her working life allowed).

He had made a similar point on Wednesday, when he spent much of the day with President Obama, who himself called the law "misdirected".

Although the prime minister, David Cameron, had warned his party that the "rubber was about to hit the road" on spending cuts, many senior backbenchers feared the manner of today's attack on child benefit was badly misdirected.

These criticisms are misdirected.