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She felt that receiving the child food directly into little personal bowls was undignified and wasteful, since much of it slopped over the sides.
Similar examples of irrational and wasteful uses of water can be found elsewhere.
We are finding that they are disappearing fast because of careless, wasteful use of outdoor light.
So while the war will probably be wasteful, I doubt it will have much effect one way or the other.
Not to do so would be wasteful, an offence against Scottish thrift and against her tireless spirit.
The stuff about them being more dangerous and needlessly wasteful is true, but that's just extra ammunition.
Local authority chiefs are insistent that the characterisation of councils as wasteful bureaucracies is wrong.
She has a lot of lavish, wasteful spending in her budget in particular, and I'd like to cut that.
Restoring the dividend tax credit would be a better use of public money than much of the government's wasteful spending.
This saves the society from wasteful investment and ensures efficient use of scarce resources.
This is a wasteful process causing a net loss of nitrogen to the animal and pollution of the environment.
I put this down to us eating a relatively healthy diet and not convenience foods which come with too much wasteful packaging.
Other items of wasteful consumption include unused gym subscriptions and sports equipment.
It's a very wasteful process, almost entirely due to the fine mesh of the nets.
The State is the absolute worst mechanism for this purpose because it is so wasteful and inefficient.
It is a similar picture in thousands of villages across China, where population growth has meant rampant farming and wasteful irrigation.
Another report, assessment and approval by City Council would have been redundant and a wasteful expenditure of time and money.
It's incredibly wasteful to spend a week or more reinstalling a computer's operating system and applications because of a few modified files.
While on Pictou Island, I heard stories about a lot of wasteful helicoptering by government.
It may seem wasteful to use a box of rock salt, but this can be cooled and reused several times because it won't deteriorate.
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The system as a whole is a ridiculous one, and nearly all its features are wasteful and uneconomic.
In fact, her mind had never been overwhelmed by a wasteful torrent of learning.
It is part and parcel of the problem of the cost of living, of woman's wages, of wasteful industries, of the social evil itself.
From our standpoint they may have been wasteful methods, but they did get results.
Organised charity was wasteful, inelastic, unsympathetic, often superfluous.
Mr. Kincaid's preparations were as careful and as wasteful of time as ever.
The tax-exempt organizations have a vested interest in the oppressive, inequitable, and wasteful federal-income-tax system.
As Governor, I found this line-item veto was a powerful tool against wasteful or extravagant spending.
Not only has it been wasteful and inefficient, but it has misappropriated the funds.
A great volume of uneconomic and wasteful transportation has attended, and the cost increased accordingly.
Suddenly, I realized why Grandma was a saver of oddities, why she went around snapping lights off and scolding us gently for being wasteful.
If it was from economy, and you are anxious to teach me not to be wasteful, you have no cause for alarm.
Rival parties of trappers soon exhaust the streams, especially when competition renders them heedless and wasteful of the beaver.
Grant's wasteful doings to overlook, left her very little occasion to be occupied in fears for the absent.
Astor, whose property he considers at the mercy of a most heterogeneous and wasteful crew.
The machinery employed was cumbrous, wasteful of time and costly.
Surely they were the weirdest, most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention.
The practice of slaking lime in small piles in the field is wasteful.
Careless, slovenly and wasteful as I knew him to be, he was not mean.
The openings of the war were gloomy and wasteful, without glory.
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