Sentence examples for wasteful exercise from inspiring English sources

A future agreement on repealing the debt ceiling—ending that wasteful exercise in false suspense would be a bonus.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla .— Breaking down plays and decisions after four Grapefruit League games is a wasteful exercise.

Under the federal crop support program -- itself a wasteful exercise -- rice growers receive guarantees of $3.10 per bushel for their crops, more than double the $1.40 market price.

Unfortunately the hit rates of this approach are usually low single-digit (or less) [1,16,19,20] which makes this a very costly and wasteful exercise.

These women will be unfairly required to carry the anomalous foetuses to term; this is a futile and wasteful exercise because their infants will die soon after birth or after a few months, and therefore, this situation does not justify the hardship to the mothers in carrying these foetuses to term.

The proposal is occasioned by an election-year fight that's heating up over the current deficit, a good part of which is because of Bush administration spending on such wasteful exercises as the Iraq war.

Cheap energy encourages wasteful use.

It's not clear if the American people and their media know or care how this wasteful, degrading and hypocritical exercise looks to people around the world: to Europeans battling austerity, Iranians surviving a vicious sanctions regime, Palestinians denied a country, Africans in many countries sinking deeper into deprivation and others coping with war and despair.

A critic at Variety, the show business newspaper, called the list "scholastically challenged". Kenneth Turan, the chief film critic at The Los Angeles Times, said that "the omissions on the A.F.I. list, and they are numerous, are frankly a scandal," and he added that the entire exercise was both wasteful and a shame.

For instance, political opponents have attacked the $15 million Prevention and Public Health Trust Fund that provides grants to address poor housing, air quality, and lack of exercise, calling the spending wasteful.

Breakfast raves borrow from a long history of party culture but remove its wasteful excess, turning it into a sterilized exercise regime a form of bourgeois recreation that ultimately aims to create productive workers.