Sentence examples for squandered on a from inspiring English sources

It seems a little misguided to me that such a war chest should be squandered on a one-time refund to customers, or spent on areas where the telecoms are already voluntarily investing billions.

Even "Wanna Be Starting Something," one of Jackson's most propulsive songs, was squandered on a bizarre rainforest-type number in which dancers seemed to be dressed as salad.

Sadly, what could have been an important insight into one of the world's most powerful corporations was squandered on a self-indulgent, half-baked attempt at feminism.

How can potential donors be certain that their money will not be squandered on a poorly run or fraudulent project?

"The idea of letting it be squandered on a few mansions drives me up the wall," she added.

The film begins with a row between a suburban married couple, Jay Neil Maskelll) and Shel (MyAnna Buring), about the finances that he has squandered on a jacuzzi.

The return on investment in other cities, such as West Bromwich, where over £60m was squandered on an unloved modern art gallery, and Sheffield, where £15m went on a short-lived pop music museum, has been worse.

Whatever he had left over after he blew a wad trying to turn Social Security into a bonanza for the financial-services industry was squandered on an unending skein of assurances that the war in Iraq was going fine.

Until then, our tax dollars will continue to be squandered on an unneeded Alaskan "bridge to nowhere" while essential levees continue to deteriorate and fail, leaving bigger messes and high costs of recovery.

Billions of dollars have been squandered on an ill-advised peace plan, leaving guns as the symbol of power instead of voting cards.

"The most compelling luxury at Reed Krakoff is the rare spectacle of enough capital to squander on a learning curve that most people would prefer to master privately, before inflicting their genius on an unsuspecting public," Cintra Wilson wrote in the Times.