Sentence examples for thought squandered from inspiring English sources

Drake, an executive for the National Security Agency NSAA), became a whistleblower over what he considered mistaken policy decisions about an ill-performing data-sifting program which, among other things, he thought squandered taxpayer money.

"I thought we squandered at least an hour or an hour and a half of people's time," she told me later.

He thinks India squandered the chance for a swift military reprisal.

"I think we squandered quite a bit," he said, referring to Kenya's lost reputation.

In the 1980's the New Orleans Symphony thought big, squandering its endowment and hiring marquee conductors with international names, who fled with the first arrival of fiscal pressures, and it failed.

And Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff talked about how he thinks Google "squandered its enterprise opportunity".

I really thought I'd squandered the goodwill I had built up from the first book so when it came out it was all a lovely surprise".

Yet told by Oprah Winfrey in 2009 that her voice was a national treasure, and that some people thought she had squandered it, she could only whisper, terror-struck, "That's heavy".

coaches and players thought they had squandered their chance for reaching the tournament when they lost five of eight games in February, then lost to Old Dominion in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament final.

She explains that she "learned a great deal" from running for parliament in 2005, saying that she chose the Tories not through any long-standing loyalty (she supported Blair in 1997) but because in the early 2000s she thought Labour had squandered its mandate while the Conservatives "were doing a huge amount to address local issues around poverty and deprivation".

Wilson over at Giz basically tore them a new orifice over the Q 9m and I have always thought they've squandered the RAZR good-will on a series of odd products that were either violently crippled or ahead of their time — like the Moto PEBL, for example.