Sentence examples for wasteful measures from inspiring English sources

Re "Topics in University Security Lockdownn 101," by James Alan Fox (Op-Ed, April 16), makes several good points about the need for effective rather than paranoid or wasteful measures to improve campus security.

As wages are low and employers are hiring in large numbers, there is no need for the government to pursue wasteful measures aimed at making the labour force less expensive or more flexible, such as national insurance holidays or further deregulation.

Once again, Cleveland's rejection of wasteful and corrupt measures endeared the president to citizens who admired his honesty and courage.

Excess or wasteful commuting is measured as the proportion of actual commute that is over minimum (optimal) commute when assuming that people could freely swap their homes and jobs in a city.

Perhaps the biggest poster child for LACMTA's wasteful spending is Measure M's proposal to build a tunnel through the Sepulveda Pass.

While this can be a very effective way of consolidating the signal information, one could argue that this procedure of "first sample, then compress" is somewhat wasteful because we must measure N pieces of information only to retain K < N coefficients.

Measures such as wasteful spending, the burden of regulation on business and the transparency of policymaking were considered to calculate the overall efficiency of each country's rulers.

It was also thought to be both ill timed, because of lags in Congressional decision-making, and wasteful, because choices among fiscal measures were driven by politics and rent-seeking rather than cost-benefit considerations.

He proclaims the fact that he voted for tax cuts while in the Senate, and against bills that he said included wasteful spending, including one farm measure.

ROBERT Z. OKSNER Winter Park, Fla., Oct. 2, 2013   Why should we trust a government that by any measure is inept, wasteful and corrupt?

Lawmakers discovered on Wednesday evening that a 34-page section of the 673-page bill was missing from the package that was sent last week to President Bush, who executed his veto after calling the measure bloated and wasteful.