Sentence examples for wasteful for from inspiring English sources

It's wasteful for us to spend state money for the governor to go to a resort".

Additional spending on controls may be wasteful for some companies, but improving controls could be critical for others.

Trading up is wasteful for the group, however, because the applicants are no more likely to get the positions if they all spend more on suits.

They point out that the inhabitants of blue and red states differ little on many important issues: similar proportions regard the government as wasteful, for example.

Supporters of the affordable housing rider contend that it is wasteful for the county not to use development rights it buys.

Emails and tweets have excoriated him for being wasteful, for razing rain forests in the name of some pseudo-artistic boondoggle.

Its government has also complained that the scheme would reward the most wasteful irrigators for their inefficiency, by helping to pay for improvements to their infrastructure and then allowing them to use much of the water saved.

His version of localism, based as it is on diverse, fragmented forms of co-production and wasteful competition for human and financial resources, is not the panacea for the good society.

But why are all Mr McCain's "wasteful" programmes for agricultural research?

If Mr Tusk can dump his coalition partner, the smallholders' People's Party, he will find it easier to prune wasteful subsidies for farmers.

It is a wasteful approach, for sure, but very its primary functions are the generation of profit and the urbanisation of a recently rural country.