Sentence examples for wasteful expenditures from inspiring English sources

"At the same time, we've always had male commentators denigrating women for their love of trinkets and their wasteful expenditures".

"In this era of responsibility, boards of directors must prevent wasteful expenditures of funds on outsized executive and administrator compensation," the letter says.

The problem with President-elect Barack Obama's supposed emphasis on the costs of health care is that his proposals fail to deal with the biggest source of wasteful expenditures, our dependence upon private health insurance.

The delay of the bill was an embarrassment for Democrats and a striking, if temporary, victory for critics of so-called earmark spending initiatives, who had criticized the bill as bloated with wasteful expenditures.

The new administration of Yukio Hatoyama has come to office with big spending plans, which it intends to pay for by scrapping wasteful expenditures of the sort that, it says, helped keep its opponents in power for half a century.

This way larger consumers end up paying more and would, therefore, be motivated to conserve water and avoid wasteful expenditures.

Many other examples could be cited of misjudged priorities and wasteful expenditure.

But when pushed, he cannot pinpoint the wasteful expenditure he would cut.

The biggest problems, he says, were poorly conceived projects and wasteful expenditure.

But citing the prostate-specific antigen test as an example of wasteful expenditure is, in my view, potentially dangerous.

Nuclear weapons have had a tremendous influence on our agonies and obsessions since 1945, inspiring desperate rhetoric, extravagant theorising, wasteful expenditure and frenetic diplomatic posturing.