Sentence examples for wasteful amounts from inspiring English sources

This discovery put Kremen on the road to realizing that most or even all of the inputs that modern commercial farms require — chemical pesticides and fertilizers, wasteful amounts of water and energy, imported pollinators — were needed only because the monoculture-dominated landscapes created by industrial agriculture lacked biodiversity.

In Brazil's case, government spending, though hugely wasteful, amounts to 40% of its economy.

Last week, he was downright miffed when I coated my noodles with what he regarded as a wasteful amount of truffle oil.

The Washington Free Beacon compiled a greatest hits list on Thursday (the total amount of money highlighted as wasteful amounted to about 0.1percentt of the NIH budget).

We evolved this approach when we analyzed targeted enrichment runs and found that conventional mapping and SNP-calling takes up a wasteful amount of time and computing resources.

I have worked many times as a dishwasher in restaurants and always found appalling and wasteful the amount of food I had to scrape from plates.

Environmentalists have tended to treat big buildings as intrinsically wasteful, because large amounts of energy are expended in their construction, and because the buildings place intensely localized stresses on sewers, power lines, and water systems.

Mr. Obama protested to Brian Williams that the programs denounced as "wasteful" by Republicans "amount to less than 1percentt of the entire package".

The TSA seems like a caricature of a wasteful bureaucracy, spending astounding amounts of money even during a sluggish economic recovery.

The governor's office released a press statement, saying in part: "Bottled water is wasteful and requires large amounts of energy to bottle and transport.

Since it is wasteful to allow large amounts of cash to remain idle, the financial manager will try to find short-term investments for sums that will be needed later.