To run their campaigns principally on national questions such as the economy, health or education would only further remind voters of their positions in a party that has been in power since 1997 and is now accused of squandering Ireland's wealth during the Celtic Tiger years.
Even so, with Hungary 3-2 behind after squandering a 2-0 lead, he raced through the opposing defence to score what looked like a perfectly good goal.
In April it enacted a law that orders citizens to inform on anyone found squandering welfare money on pachinko.
The timing was particularly encouraging: India's labour force was due to soar as China's began to decline (see chart 1).Now many are worried that India is squandering this demographic opportunity.
Didn't Mr Gore realise, his critics argued, that he was squandering his greatest asset, the fact that he had been vice-president during the longest boom in American history?
No central bank would want to commit itself to squandering its reserves in defence of another country's shaky currency.
But if the economy, and thus the government's popularity, took a serious dive, Mr Franco might win his party over.In this section Squandering an unlikely recovery Middle men Drought in Margaritaville No coups, please Crazed by thirst ReprintsThe strongest soft-left challenger is Ciro Gomes, a former governor of the north-eastern state of Ceara who was also, briefly, Mr Franco's finance minister.
It is a giant opportunity that India is in danger of squandering.
After a lull in electioneering while the fighting lasted, Binyamin Netanyahu, who leads the opposition Likud, now loudly accuses the government of squandering the chance offered by the army by stopping the war too soon.
The trouble is that the politicians are squandering the chance for orderly reform.
Squandering their precious hours of prep time in smug self-congratulatory lesbian weddings at Unitarian-Universalist meeting houses, probably.
