Sentence examples for wasted argument from inspiring English sources
From time to time, most of us wonder what it would be like to be a politician, but few of us, I think, could bear the price, the mind-numbing repetition of policy and belief, the wasted hours in wasted argument in dead committee rooms, the incremental advantage of this alliance instead of that alliance, the hanging around in the company of the warped, the fanatic, the politically ambitious.
"We can't allow wasting arguments on topics that are irrelevant to the main challenges we face.
Others say they are just as happy not to waste valuable argument time on distinctive positions unlikely to command a majority in major cases.
You could think: why is so much time being wasted on these arguments?
He also wasted time in an argument he could not win, trying to get Lewis to change his choice of gloves for the fight.
And I say to myself, 'Do you know nothing?!'" This passion drives him crazy but also into print, where he has long delivered polemical essays and moving appreciations of his peers such as Osborne and Pinter and even the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, whom his own warring church has "wasted", he reckons, in arguments about women bishops and gay marriages.
And we're doing so because the argument that Obama made on behalf of Geithner – there's just no time to waste – was an argument that worked only once.
The leader of the opposition, Donald Tusk, said: "This was a wasted year, a year of argument and conflict.
Instead, his administration wasted time on an internal argument between the unilateralists at the Pentagon and the vice-president's office, and the internationalists at the State Department.
With Exxon — largest company on Earth, heir to the original oil baron, with tentacles reaching around the world — vouching for the science, there is no way we would have wasted 25 years in fruitless argument.
This kind of argument is quite wasted on educational bureaucrats, for whom the question is whether children can learn to type faster and more clearly than they can write by hand.
