Sentence examples for proves wasteful from inspiring English sources

Marginal costs (left-hand side) are in terms of both present consumption and investment that becomes unavailable as adaptation increases (although we still do not know how investment will respond to adaptation), and how this affects future consumption, both if climate change does not occur (in which case adaptation expenditure proves wasteful) or if it does occur.

It'd be wonderful if we could simply cut out all the care that proves wasteful after the fact.

8 Aleksandr Kerzhakov  Linked well with support, hit the post in the run up to the first goal, but proved wasteful in front of goal.

But it fell out of fashion when much of the innovation it produced proved wasteful and workers bemoaned the lack of understandable career paths.Some management professors regard the whole idea of stripping away hierarchy as wishful thinking.

Real had seemed content to sit on their draw after spending most of the evening on the back foot and they looked set to return to Spain on level terms, with Gomez proving wasteful in front of goal despite causing centre-backs Pepe and Sergio Ramos problems all night.

Even as Dortmund continued to glitter in attack Robben found himself in space running in on goal three times only to prove horribly wasteful.

A retrofit programme to then convert all these to diesel-powered engines was then implemented, expecting to cost over £7 million, proving extremely wasteful and time consuming, simply because insufficient guidance was given to those in charge of procurement.

In the time that I have spent in the architectural world since I left Wall Street I have learned that where previous top-down, drop-in architectural programs have sometimes proven irrelevant, wasteful and unsustainable, international humanitarian architecture projects are seeing a new face - one that is thoughtful, meaningful and helping transform lives along the way.

"These nepotistic hires all quickly proved disastrous, and wasteful," the suit continues.

Evolution by artificial selection is likely to prove almost as wasteful as the kind by natural selection.

It did indeed prove to be wasteful rather than efficient, cack-handed instead of strategic, alarmingly incoherent rather than terrifyingly rational.