If so, why isn't he telling Cuadrilla that it's wasting its time, because he cannot allow it to develop the reserves it is prospecting?
So it is wasting its taxpayers' money, and eroding the rest of the world's confidence in its economic competence, by trying to keep stock prices artificially high.
If not it is wasting its time and those fighting its internal wars will end up with the prize of perpetual irrelevance.
Anyway, if the governing body expects to keep one of humanity's strongest collective impulses, religion, entirely separate from one of its favourite collective activities, soccer, then it is wasting its breath.
Your complacent humanist will no doubt remain unmoved, confident that if the savage mind was necessarily alert it was wasting its keenness on the singularly unprofitable end of merely preserving the savage body.
Mr. Young sued the Central or the ground that it was wasting its stockholders money, he specified as one of the railroad's extravagances the hiring of Georgeson & Co.; proxy solicitors.
SAY what you will about our government's approach to the financial crisis, you cannot accuse it of wasting its energy being consistent or trying to win over the masses.
It's easy to see why the series is popular: Jack, with his combination of sensitivity and self-absorption, swishy humor and not-quite-suppressed anger, is both a stand-in for an office-drone audience that feels that it's wasting its creativity, and a recognizable New York type.
Commentary in Xinhua Beijingng, losing patience with its recalcitrant neighbour Pyongyang's patron, might decide it is wasting its time pandering to the regime and cut aid… North Korea's third nuclear test is expected to push Beijing into getting tougher with its wayward neighbour".
An alert bird such as a Eurasian jay warning off a stalking predator is communicating something useful to the predator: that it has been detected by the prey; it might as well quit wasting its time stalking this alerted prey, which it is unlikely to catch.
At some landfills, methane is not harnessed but is burned off, or flared, keeping it from the atmosphere but wasting its energy potential.
