Sentence examples for useless expense from inspiring English sources

"Look at all this useless expense".

But Dick had made up his mind: stockings of any shade were unnecessary, an encumbrance, a useless expense ("I've already invested enough money in this operation"), and, after all, anyone they encountered would not live to bear witness.

This skepticism about his age has never angered Welles, but he cannot restrain a sensation of gentle triumph whenever he hears that another reporter has put himself to the useless expense of wiring to Kenosha for a duplicate of the birth certificate.

After the Hudson Bay Company traders gave Inuit hunters snowmobiles in return for pelts, many owners saw their sled dog teams as useless expenses.

In both the cases it is necessary to dimension the Cloud resource to avoid useless expenses and to not fail to satisfy the service requirements when workloads change dynamically.

In a desperate attempt to make the place more attractive to them he had the power company run out poles and wires, a terrible expense and useless, too, as the boys came no more often.

If its hypothesis could be demonstrated, this could pave the way for tailoring the treatment to the patients, avoiding useless toxicities and inadequate expenses for the society.

"We are getting into a useless arms race at the expense of fulfilling the need of poor people".

With its inadequate harbour and almost useless walls, fortified at huge expense but overlooked by the surrounding hills, and garrisoned by grumbling soldiers and populated by their discontented families, the enclave was constantly under threat of being reclaimed by the Moroccans.

I learned that accumulating possessions at our health expense are only useless.

For Limoges, this underlines the argument that the whole process might be nothing more than the Coderre administration's "ideological fight at the taxpayers' expense" to enforce a useless bylaw "that infringes on fundamental freedoms".