Sentence examples for wasted efforts from inspiring English sources
When applied to banks, corporate governance campaigns are wasted efforts.
A Senate committee headed by Harry S. Truman reported wasted efforts like a huge Army program to develop Yukon oil fields for its Alaska-based planes when they could have been supplied by sending a tanker up the West Coast once a week.
Failing to elicit comprehensive requirements before developing a product can result in poor uptake and wasted efforts in development.
The petroleum reservoir characterization process requires such very high degree of prediction accuracy that any deviation from expectation may result in huge losses and wasted efforts through enormous man-hours and huge investments.
Auto-triggered cycles, wasted efforts, and double triggering were also highly prevalent, with two (IQR: 0 3), two (IQR: 1 10), and one (IQR: 0 5) events per minute, respectively.
Because the clinical, regulatory, and economic impact of active control noninferiority trials is substantial, robust criteria should be used routinely in their design, analysis, and interpretation to reach their intended objectives and to keep them from becoming wasted efforts.
Much of this is wasted effort.
Otherwise, it's all a wasted effort.
It was a gargantuan but wasted effort.
They watched for waste — wasted food, wasted time, wasted effort.
