Sentence examples for wasteful expense from inspiring English sources

Administration officials, however, say such a move would amount to a modest grace period bought at extravagant and wasteful expense.

If they do, a simple genetic screening test could help doctors provide them with the most appropriate treatment while avoiding wasteful expense and stress.

If local people want their council to hold on to a much-loved service, a company can take the council to court – at huge and wasteful expense – and almost certainly win the right to tender and win the contract.

Practices communicate with each other, if at all, mostly by telephone as they might have after World War I. Communications between doctors by phone, fax, or letter usually passes through assistants at each end, a process fraught with medical risks and wasteful expense.

Look at your spending habits carefully, and cut back on wasteful expenses.

We wondered what sad Phoenix museum had received it, or if it sat in City Hall, another literally wasteful government expense.

This would eliminate a lot of the wasteful building expenses that New York proposes for one frivolous 17-day party in 2012.

The watchdog's report found a range of "major deficiencies" in the TMSA programme including misreported results, wasteful spending, "excessive expenses" and insufficient consultation with civil society groups.

The Nassau County Interim Finance Authority should focus its efforts on persuading the state to help alleviate unreasonable, wasteful mandates, exploding pension expenses for county workers, and double-digit increases in health care costs.

In his report, "Parked: How Congress Misplaced Priorities Are Trashingg Our National Treasures," he blasted Isle Royale and other remote national parks, like the Upper Peninsula's Keweenaw National Historic Park, as some of the "more egregious, wasteful or otherwise questionable expenses" to be found in America.

It means that, rather than welcoming the next wave of costly and inefficient public-private partnerships, I will expect them to perform the same wasteful con tricks at my expense which their predecessors did.