Sentence examples for wasteful construction from inspiring English sources

But even politicians who (unlike Putin) have to worry about being reëlected often see benefits in unnecessary or wasteful construction spending, because it gives the economy a short-term boost.

But their loyalty cannot be taken for granted, especially to fund a rehash of one of the LDP's failed economic policies of the past: massive, often wasteful, construction spending.It may be possible to shrug off Mr Abe's tough talk as electioneering.

But their loyalty cannot be taken for granted, especially to fund a rehash of one of the LDP's failed economic policies of the past: massive, often wasteful, construction spending.The backstory: Japan has been stuck at the zero lower bound for the better part of 14 years now.

Some big, wasteful federal construction programmes, used by governments to buy off congressmen, were scaled back, and more loans were made to individual house-buyers.

As no studio was big enough for the interior of Stromberg's supertanker, and set designer Ken Adam did not want to repeat what he had done with SPECTRE's volcano base in You Only Live Twice – "a workable but ultimately wasteful set" – construction began in March 1976 of a new sound stage at Pinewood, the 007 Stage, at a cost of $1.8 million.

Gregory: "We've seen the wasteful abuse of construction funds by the school board.... Voters would be wiser to reform the funding process for schools rather than dumping more money into a flawed and often corrupt system".

If there was ever an opportunity to seize to redesign cities to be greener with more public parks, promenades and tree-lined walkways, and to reclaim wasteful space for housing construction, this is it.

Large new facilities: Another contentious provision relates to the bill's attempt to rein in cost overruns and wasteful spending on the construction of big-bucks scientific facilities like telescopes, ships, and networked instrumentation.

He accused both administrations of wasteful spending, specifically attacking the construction of the Kentucky Turnpike and Freedom Hall as unnecessary expenditures.

"The president stealing resources from the Defense Department for the construction of a wasteful border wall, at taxpayer expense, to defend against the president's imaginary invasion would make our country less safe and the men and women of our military less safe".

The spending, particularly when used for public-works construction, has been criticized as wasteful political pork.