| And the government bureaucracy is riddled with corruption, thieving, lying and wastefulness. |
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| Miserliness and wastefulness are equally deplored in Buddhism as two degenerate extremes. |
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| This single line from the 1967 film The Graduate came to signify a generation's contempt for insincerity, conformity, and wastefulness. |
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| Councillors must ensure that the same old incompetence wastefulness and inefficiencies are not allowed to continue. |
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| It is this wastefulness, or lack of ruthlessness that will cost England matches. |
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| The company's own structures will become more efficient, it will optimise a large part of its work processes and put a stop to wastefulness. |
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| The unproductiveness and wastefulness of the industrial system in the Slave States is instructively displayed in the valuable writings of Mr. Olmsted. |
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| Like all publicly funded bodies, the BBC is often criticised for its wastefulness. |
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| After the slaughter of the first world war, most writers with experience of the trenches wrote of the pointless wastefulness of battle. |
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| Of course, those monopolies would then have to be under democratic control, in order to prevent abuses of power, wastefulness and nepotism. |
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| We will strive to do our best in using environmentally safe resources and reduce wastefulness. |
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| Compatible with the Programmer, this unit keeps pace with the household schedule, ensuring wise energy consumption with no wastefulness. |
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| Secondly, people increasingly believe that EU resources are being lost through wastefulness and corruption. |
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| The dual functionality means the bathroom can be heated rapidly as need be, for maximum comfort with no wastefulness. |
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| We have seen many worrying signs of this and we hear reports of wastefulness and corruption in the distribution of funds. |
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| What do you do in such a situation in real life, where there is no room for wastefulness or mutual admiration? |
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| We are inclined, in these technological rimes, to rely upon our ingenuity to make up for our wastefulness. |
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| In an age of climate consciousness, consumers dislike over-packaging and wastefulness while preferring smart and economical solutions. |
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| Ladies and gentlemen, we all the while need to ensure that the operational reliability of energy does not lead to wastefulness, but savings. |
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| Speaking of the TSA leads directly into a final way of minimizing the excesses and wastefulness of a national surveillance state. |
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| Yet the mesmerizing fact in US fiscal policy is not the cost of defense, but the wastefulness of US health spending. |
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| Most television ads encourage consumerism, wastefulness, and destructiveness. |
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| We can use the Council's readiness to modify its proposals as regards the aforementioned board, to show the citizens what the Council's true motives are and to what extent it has a horror of wastefulness. |
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| The wastefulness was all ours but this fetid heat could be a planetary impersonal adjustment like an ice age, so it might well be wise to keep always facepaint and ash about us. |
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| Poverty, wealth, power, ignorance, egoism, absence of public-spiritedness, wastefulness, leisure activities, over-exploitation, pollution, population trends, the price of progress, indecision, financial repercussions. |
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| Climate change and the effects of wastefulness on our planet mean that we must find other ways of thinking than purely productivity-based economics and other ways of governing than pure liberalism. |
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| Energy conservation is extremely important and working together as a family to cut back on wastefulness is a great way to help preserve our planet and spend time together. |
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| The result of years of work by a committee of experts, it is scathing about the poor standards and wastefulness that it found. One manifest sign of poor quality is the number of people who die because of medical errors. |
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| The poll showed that Austrians are especially disturbed by unemployment, wastefulness in the EU and crime often attributed to the recent enlargement of the EU to 25 members. |
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| The absurd environmental wastefulness of all this has not gone unremarked. |
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| Other Diamonds attacked the opposition only spasmodically in a curate's egg performance of brilliance and wastefulness. |
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| The Essen Council in December 1994 asked Member States to submit reports on their measures to combat wastefulness and the misuses of Community resources. |
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| Combating fraud As taxpayers, the citizens of Europe rightly expect fraud, wastefulness and mismanagement to be combated with the greatest rigour. |
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