Sentence examples for they were squandering from inspiring English sources

When the financial crisis struck, "a lot of these guys were floating around in stretch limos," said Mr. Chalmers".It looked like they were squandering money".

Years ago I asked and prodded Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds about the possibility of them releasing Carl Barks books, but at the time a crappy company called Gemstone owned the Disney license and they were squandering it.

And when the opportunities did come, they were squandered.

But they are squandering the opportunity.

Indeed, the Republican House leadership is sensitive to the perception that they are squandering even more time on a repeal vote that is going nowhere.

Party leaders believe (with excellent reason) that Obama is eminently beatable, yet they're fretful (as they should be) that they're squandering that opportunity with a field of candidates too weak for the task.

He will ask employees or friends who are putting sugar in coffee or milk in tea why they want to kill themselves and will upbraid people leaving healthful food unfinished about the vitamins they're squandering.

It's a densely argued four-page piece, which concludes "the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today; and they are squandering their power and ignoring their obligation".

"They're squandering much of the advantage of incumbency and redefining Bush in an entirely political and partisan manner," said Jim Jordan, a spokesman for the Media Fund, a Democratic group running advertisements against Mr. Bush.

IT'S the noise, writes David Grossman, the gunshots, sirens, incendiary clichés, the frantic ringing of telephones: a cacophony, he believes, that saves Israelis and Palestinians from the silence that might otherwise tell them that they are squandering their lives in a pointless struggle that should have been resolved long ago.

But they're squandering that potential before it even has a chance to succeed.