Sentence examples for wasting a fortune from inspiring English sources

Yet critics insist that America is wasting a fortune for an impossible technological fix.

But dump a company's stock just because its advertising offers a clue that it's wasting a fortune?

When he ran for and lost the Attorney General's election to Terry Goddard in 2002, he soon thereafter set his sites on Goddard, wasting a fortune on trumped up charges of fraud that never went anywhere.

Others think the state has wasted a fortune.

If the idea is state-directed lending, the banks will waste a fortune and kill enterprise.

And unlike Mr Stals, who wasted a fortune trying to support the rand when it plunged in 1998, Mr Mboweni says he will let the market determine its value.

What a buyer of a giant kitten or a gargantuan fried egg says to those who view his purchase is this: "I know you think that I am a stupid rich man who has wasted a fortune on trash.

Even though Iain Duncan Smith's plans for Universal Credit are in tatters, have wasted a fortune and are still not signed off, his fundamentalist ideology is still in play, for it is central to Conservatism.

Now abandoned, it cost sales in every city where it was tried and wasted a fortune.

The War on Booze corrupted law enforcement officials and wasted an obscene fortune in public funds and manpower.

The visitors remained resilient until they crumbled in the closing minutes, but also enjoyed a bit of fortune as Derby wasted a number of opportunities.