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Sentence Examples The British public is tired of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money being squandered on schemes that are scrapped after only a few years. He nearly squandered all that until, at midlife, he learned how to leverage his personality with his inheritance. The Big Brother housemates have almost squandered a quarter of a mil through sheer stupidity. Years of shiftlessness and bad behavior can be squandered by a single misstep. We had already squandered much of the gambling kitty playing blackjack, poker and baccarat before trying the dice. This of course means that all these real dollars, instead of being channelled towards real wealth generation, will be squandered. Perhaps I'd just misunderstood, or squandered a blatant opportunity, I thought. More than 40,000 chorused it back at them when Kris Boyd regained his scoring touch to give the home side a lead they never squandered. Don't go down in history as a spendthrift, who threw away the country's wealth and squandered the opportunity to truly develop our nation. Trust and integrity are precious resources easily squandered, and hard to regain. Schools, he insists, have squandered money that would have been better spent on teachers and books. But that didn't work out because I squandered all the money I had, somehow. The former heavyweight champion has squandered nearly 300 million in ring earnings through lavish spending and bad advice. How much of your time gets squandered in traffic for lack of adequate mass transit? The important thing now is to dump the tribunals before yet more taxpayers' money is squandered. Now, the police have caught him, and found that he had squandered almost all the money. He squandered the money brought in by the sale of Emile Heskey and Neil Lennon on over-priced under-achievers. He says too much tax revenue is being squandered on bureaucracy and inefficiency. I have budgeted successfully since I was a student and have never squandered money. It was hard not to feel some sympathy for his opponent, who must have been kicking himself afterwards having squandered a two-set lead. Show More Sentences Both sides then squandered chances with Motherwell especially culpable in passing up three golden opportunities in quick succession. With the defeat in Barbados, the unpredictable Pakistan side squandered the opportunity of winning their first-ever Test series. He squandered a real opportunity to do something about homelessness and hunger. I regret to say that I think the president has squandered some opportunities that we had. The second team, however, squandered every advantage or failed to maintain a steady pace when its time came. It is sad that we have squandered the opportunity with the ending of the Cold War. Soon there will be bitter regret at all the public land being squandered irredeemably. Compared with the billions squandered on a vague mission in Iraq, a mission to Mars seems cheap. The final poetic statement propounding the belief that life is all one time, not to be squandered or compartmentalized. The team were their own worst enemy as they squandered numerous chances in a nervous opening game. Hemingway's genius would be squandered, enervated by celebrity, and he would die an alcoholic and a suicide. An aspiring inventor, the father has squandered his years huddled over bubbling pots attempting to create an odourless shoe. Still, Carramore looked the better balanced team but many chances were squandered. Many are also saddled with record debt and have squandered their 401's during the years when they should be aggressively socking it away. The meager funds provided by government for medical facilities in rural areas are squandered away by local petty officials. I wouldn't like the magnums of champers to be squandered on people lacking all taste and refinement. The last council became bigoted against cars and squandered vast amounts of council tax payer's money waging war on them. Henrik Larsson squandered a chance to win the game in the dying moments when he hooked a shot across the face of the goal. Think of all the good that can be done with the resources now squandered on weapons worldwide. He also had to think about his credibility, which was too valuable to be squandered on gratuitous retribution. Show More Sentences Each of them had an evil spouse, who light-headedly squandered what the father had left. An opportunity to create a classic, timeless satire was squandered by going for a cheap attempt to soften the film into a screwball comedy. He thinks they have squandered unbelievable and unimaginable opportunities. Fenton squandered St Mirren's best chance by firing a shot over the bar when a square ball would have found McPhee unmarked. Despite many spirited runs by the away team, the ball was often squandered with clueless up-and-unders. They've not only squandered their inheritance but blown their sense of chosenness, of specialness. Smith once squandered £4m on Sebastián Rozental but gave an unknown Rino Gattuso his first big chance. Instead they squandered their post-Newtown momentum on an unwinnable negotiating position, and lost everything. A holdover from the bare-knuckle days, he had squandered much of his fortune during years of drunken carousal. And while disclaiming responsibility and blaming others, many suffer unnecessarily because of wrong priorities, wrong choices, squandered opportunities. It will be spent, nay squandered, on unnecessary digital radio stations. Potential for rebuilding can be squandered easily if fisheries are reopened while a stock is still vulnerable. If a government had been in place and had squandered the money on socialistic schemes, maybe it would not have been so far ahead. We cannot allow a situation where property is taxed at exorbitant levels while the money is squandered on inessentials and perks for the powerful. Some of the important gains towards realizing the MDGs would be squandered. With the famine that took place on his watch and the near collapse of the country, Kim Jong Il has squandered his father's legacy. France were much quicker in setting up scoring chances but they squandered them with the reckless abandon of a gambler, certain the luck would hold all night. Immense amounts of money were squandered, reputations were tarnished, and the consumer was left, as is so often the case, chagrined, puzzled, shortchanged, miffed. When squandered on decadence, wealth doubly harms the under-resourced. Time and again, opportunities for workers revolution were squandered by the Stalinist misleaders. Show More Sentences He got involved in various religious cults and squandered all his money. While funds were imprudently lent and some were certainly squandered, for the most part, resources were applied to real investment projects. Instead, many countries have seen both opportunity and resources squandered on political adventurism, civil wars, misguided macroeconomic policies, and greed. A scene ripe with comedic possibilities is then cruelly squandered. They have mismanaged money and squandered resources, which is why our profession is not held in high esteem. They squandered the opportunity and will surely rue that decision. Its norm-making capacity is often squandered on debates about minutiae or thematic topics outpaced by real-world events. Yet, they squandered these opportunities by not working hard enough. Federer squandered his one match point with a tweener that Safin volleyed away for a winner. After one too many bacchanalian orgies, Timon realizes that he's squandered his entire fortune and turns to his many friends for financial support. In fact it concerns Nauru, the tiny Pacific island nation once wealthy because of its superphosphate reserves, which now finds all the proceeds squandered. They also note with a twinge of pride that Mr Mugabe has squandered a beneficent colonial economic legacy. Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past. I read a book he wrote in 1913 where he railed against how America squandered all of its wildlife. The Irishman had squandered several leads during a see-saw match, but he found his groove at the end, benefiting from a lucky cannon to get among the balls. Freedom, unless it gets squandered in the name of fear or defiance, will endure long after this fragile, rootless hate campaign has burned itself to ashes. He was a colourful, self-assertive personage, but he squandered his considerable earnings and died in poverty. She talks about the money squandered and refers to the budget as one big boutique item. The major powers and other governments squandered much of the great potential of the end of the Cold War. The governments had a surplus that was squandered, and I do not say that flippantly. Show More Sentences At that moment, I was grateful that I had squandered all the money I had been underpaid over the years and had nothing in the market, because I knew it was a house of cards. Will we have preserved or squandered the cultural, historical and physical assets that we so value and that that help define who we are as Canadians? Diplomacy before 1700 was not well developed, and chances to avoid wars were too often squandered. But instead it squandered its chance with some dodgy CGI, even wobblier dialogue and that fat bloke off The Full Monty. The year is done, with all its opportunities of good neglected, its hours squandered upon trifles, its great plans unattempted and its great attempts unfinished. It has been acidified, dirtied and squandered. Rather, politics and civil society are called upon to do their utmost to ensure that society's natural and social capital are not squandered with a blinkered fixation on economic efficiency. Mr Sarkozy, Ray-Ban shades glued to his nose, squandered his popularity by turning his private life into an exhibitionist soap opera, earning the nickname President Bling-Bling. Every working Canadian has an equal opportunity to watch his or her hard earned dollars squandered by a lame duck Prime Minister and a wannabe Prime Minister. These may be squandered through incompetence or pilfering. Linking both groups is Don Adriano de Armado, a Spanish grandee whose absurd pretensions to poetic eloquence and love melancholy are squandered on the wench Jaquenetta. The opportunity for Mumbai's redemption was obscenely squandered. The opportunities of the post-Cold War era have been squandered and already there is little room left for new security thinking to take root in policy and planning. Like the birth of every new day, it is a reprieve granted by the governor of time to his subjects who may have squandered a legacy of early moments. The new member states of the Council of Europe offer an enormous wealth of cultural treasures. This offer should not be squandered nor its value debased. Despite their frequent failure to impose themselves, Rangers contrived and, inexplicably, squandered opportunities to extend their advantage by a convincing margin. Mario Mandzukic pulled a goal back in the 29th minute, following up a Tiago effort to head home, before Atlético squandered a chance for a second on the stroke of halftime. Unlike their first match this season in which Juventus squandered a two-goal lead against Fiorentina to lose 4-2 – their only league defeat this campaign – the Bianconeri held on to record their 14th home league victory. What an opportunity that was squandered and missed. Diversity would be squandered and growth opportunities would be lost. Show More Sentences These are assets that must not be squandered. In addition, some of the benefits from the creation of the Internal Market are being squandered now due to the poor performance of the services sector in Europe. If funding is squandered, the responsibility for this lies with those who selected the project, and this is not something that is done in Brussels, it's done in the Member States, at home. As we launch a fresh round of negotiations at the sixty-fourth session, we must ensure that this valuable opportunity is not squandered because of the differences on some key reform issues. What the chances are for a reevaluation of buried possibilities, is a question that in any case cannot be asked, without first having gained clarity about what exactly has been lost and squandered. All of these meant that much of the foreign borrowing was squandered, bringing little long-term benefit in terms of capacity to produce and to earn foreign exchange reserves. Further delays will mean that these gains are being squandered. Eden Hazard and Gary Cahill squandered chances and Adrian had saved gymnastically from Cahill and Willian before Terry opened the scoring. The dukes squandered the resources of the monarchy to pursue their own ends. Although her family had a comfortable income when she was a child, her father gradually squandered it on speculative projects. Milner visited GHQ, and warned him that manpower would not be available for 1919 if squandered now. Countless professional golfers have seen their dreams of winning the Open Championship squandered by hitting their balls into those bunkers. The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered. He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose, he didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former. I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities. Antiprotons, the relatively exotic antiparticles of the proton, are difficult to create and were not to be squandered. But much of the public's attention and emotions have already been captured and squandered by overemphatic predictions. It was Van Persie's only opportunity during a stop-start match in which Theo Walcott, Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey squandered chances to open the scoring. Mancini's side remain in fourth place but an opportunity to press home an advantage over closest rivals Tottenham was squandered with a lamentable display. Show More Sentences He put the case to Henry that the Justiciar had squandered royal money and lands, and was responsible for a series of riots against foreign clerics. So forget the piffling few million squandered in overpayments. Examples from Classical Literature For however the Imperialists squandered their lives, they would yet overcrowd death. I doubt that he once thought of the little fortune he had so impotently squandered. Under an unconscientious King it might be squandered broadcast among his minions or his mistresses. They had uselessly squandered what might have preserved them. Yet millions are squandered each year for uniforms, geegaws, shakos, etc! You have to-day again a dozen times the fortune I meanly squandered. It was a cameo of City's campaign, their coruscating skills tarnished by squandered opportunities and defensive fragility. Alba was mentioned with 24 alleged violations, while squandered funds remain unspecified. The Bankies squandered another chance as Hailstones found space but his shot was well blocked by keeper Prior. What began so promisingly and after so many sacrifices in 2011 must never again be squandered as it has been in the last four weeks. If I have squandered his fortune, he has beggared me in reputation. How could he help listening with wonder while the other told of midnight ventures and perilous escapes, of feastings and orgies, of fortunes squandered in a night? He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. By comparison, Wales squandered a massive ascendancy in the forwards and came second in the thunderously physical midfield encounter between Scott Gibbs and Va'aiga Tuigamala. Find more words! 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