Sentence examples for wasteful programmes from inspiring English sources

What is this doing on Mr McCain's list of wasteful programmes?

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

Many wasteful programmes are being cut and that will mean savings for taxpayers now and in the future.

He feels obliged to protect such wasteful programmes as defence procurement, overseas aid and the war in Afghanistan.

Mr Gates is continuing his remarkable record as an elder statesman at Defence with the dedication, long-term strategic vision and political independence needed to cut wasteful programmes and bring spending down to sustainable levels.

To pay for it, Mr Obama would raise taxes on the rich and on corporations, cut wasteful programmes and auction off permits to emit carbon dioxide.That agenda has since hit several road blocks.

Thomas Drake, who worked at the National Security Agency, was threatened with life imprisonment for leaking to the Baltimore Sun unclassified details of a wasteful programme that also impinged on privacy.

The common agricultural policy, a hugely expensive and wasteful programme of farm subsidies that consumes almost half of all EU spending, was barely touched: farm spending will go on rising until 2002 at least (see article).After this result, it is hard to hold out much hope for the reform of the EU's institutions, which is the next item on the agenda.

The Indian government already ran a range of vast and often very wasteful welfare programmes.

Hence we created the phrase "non-defence discretionary spending", in order to separate the cuttable parts of the budget from that most sacrosanct form of spending.But with contractors seemingly giving up the fight on the F-22, senators have done the politically impossible and killed a wasteful defence programme.

Some big, wasteful federal construction programmes, used by governments to buy off congressmen, were scaled back, and more loans were made to individual house-buyers.