Sentence examples for squandered lives from inspiring English sources

Yet the film doesn't shy away from the ruthlessness with which he squandered lives and rewrote history.

That attitude is the key to understanding why our government was unable to anticipate and head off disasters in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Nicaragua, Somalia, Vietnam or the many other places where we have squandered lives and money.

Cutting rehabilitative services that provide correctional education and vocational training may seem like a tempting way to plug short-term budget gaps, but it actually ends up costing the system more over time — and squandering lives that could have been transformed.

Having saddled the military with a botched, unwinnable war, having squandered soldiers' lives and failed them in so many ways, the commander in chief now resists giving the troops a chance at better futures out of uniform.

PAGE A17 EDITORIAL MR. BUSH AND THE G.I. BILL Having saddled the military with a botched, unwinnable war, having squandered soldiers' lives and failed them in so many ways, the commander in chief now resists giving the troops a chance at better futures out of uniform.

That makes it especially silly of Israel's leadership to have squandered nine lives and its global reputation by seizing ships on the high seas — when the freight on that flotilla was probably less than what passes through the tunnels in a single hour.

The easy illusion that we have become less hidebound because we can laugh at Downton Abbey or Boris Johnson conceals the fact that our divided, class-ridden society continues to waste talent and squander lives.

Krishna can outrun wild horses and glide across water and treetops, but his talents are being squandered while living in isolation with his overly protective grandmother.

With his memories of house-to-house fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, still intact, Spero has no time for people who want to squander their lives.

Asking Americans to squander more lives and money becomes harder and harder as the prospect of an Iraqi political settlement appears to recede.

But nor are they eager to squander more lives and money on a war that many voters think America has already lost.