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Tom is wasteful.
It's wasteful to leave the land lying idle.
You're wasteful.
Movie subtitles
Isn't anything more wasteful than war.
Let the brow o'erwhelm it as fearfully as doth a galled rock o'er hang and jutty his confounded base, swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
For my sake and for the sake of his memory why don't you give up this wasteful, useless life?
But, Your Excellency I don't consider my life particularly wasteful or useless.
They're very wasteful.
It's kind of wasteful, don't you think?
Wasteful?
How wasteful!
Then it would be wasteful to destroy it!
Things like this can never be so, to leave an expert unused is wasteful.
To resist would be useless and wasteful of lives.
Not everybody in the Cubango leads a wasteful life.
You belong to a wasteful society.
A wasteful use of energy, Doctor.
And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature for ruin's wasteful entrance.
And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his. hath turned his balls to gunstones, and his soul shall stand sore charged. for the wasteful vengeance that shall fly with them.
Let the brow o'erwhelm it as fearfully as doth a galled rock. o'erhang and jetty his confounded base, swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
You're really wasteful!
A violent death is so wasteful.
Well, in a normal studio it'd be about a million bucks with all their wasteful overhead and fancy offices.
You are always in arrears with the rent and you are so wasteful.
But your methods are wasteful and violent.
These ways are as wasteful and destructive as the others.
The most wasteful society in history was running out of places to bury its never-ending output of garbage.
I mean, Zoloft. It's just wasteful.
There are those in the home army, here and in London.hat feel the transfer of weapons to untrained Jewish street fighters is a futile and wasteful use of our limited resources.
It's no trouble to be wasteful.
It's wasteful!
A marriage of science and mass communication, which results in the abolition of years of tedious and wasteful schooling.
You wanted to destroy, unnecessary destruction is wasteful.
Mother, please stop this wasteful resistance.
It's wasteful.
It's terrifically wasteful of energy, in the present economic climate.
Wasteful.
A violent death is so wasteful. God knows death comes soon enough to us all anyway.
A report had said it was wasteful.
This is wasteful.
So, Ma, you think Dad's being wasteful. -and Dad, you think Mom's being unreasonable.
They're also gonna allege that during the separation, Niles was wasteful with money.
She's calling me wasteful?
News and current affairs
In turn, the stick is needed to ensure that these incentives do not lock in unproductive and wasteful investments.
To call these people's ostentatious displays of extravagance wasteful is to miss the point: a world of glittering dreams that must remain entirely beyond our grasp is precisely what many people want to see.
Last year the government put its finances in order by cutting wasteful and corrupt expenditures, such as enterprise subsidies.
Such incorrect statements by leading officials reinforce wasteful policies based on wishful thinking.
Allowing citizens to choose how to donate may help to tackle corruption in countries where politicians often misappropriate ODA, while discouraging wasteful or impractical projects.
The US should divert its wasteful military spending to new health financing.
At its heart lies the belief that all government spending above a necessary minimum is wasteful.
The EU's problems are stagnant output, high structural unemployment, weak productivity growth, the wasteful and unfair Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and the forthcoming structural adjustments from the expansion of the EU itself.
Those who support the decision argue that India's supply chains are simply too wasteful, and that only the finance and knowhow of big, international retail chains can upgrade them.
The failure of prices to conform to their market value makes private operation, even if efficient, socially wasteful.
This rule serves to curb inflationary demand pressure while preventing elected officials from squandering the country's riches on politically rewarding but economically wasteful projects.
With better-directed incentives (more research dollars spent on more important diseases, less money spent on wasteful and distorted marketing), we could have better health at lower cost.
We in the West hate to acknowledge - and most refuse to believe - that our leaders have been flagrantly wasteful of Muslim lives for a century now, in countless wars and military encounters instigated by overwhelming Western power.
Science and technology, after all, are not responsible for the careless and wasteful behavior that environmentalists rightly condemn.
Constitutional monarchy limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (as well as on military adventure) - the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.
A constitutional approach limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (and on military adventure), which had been the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.
But the comparison is misleading, because 2007 was the peak of a credit bubble that led to a lot of wasteful investment.
Subsidies directed toward discovering and exploiting new fossil-fuel reserves are among the most wasteful - and the most damaging.
Removal of subsidies. Subsidized electricity and fuel leads to wasteful overconsumption and contributes to the fiscal deficit.
But an increase in government outlays often means wasteful spending that produces less value than consumers would get from those same dollars.
Subsidized electricity and fuel leads to wasteful overconsumption and contributes to the fiscal deficit.
It's the end of the road for gas-guzzling cars, glass apartments that need constant air conditioning, water-thirsty washing machines, and wasteful packaging.
Private health insurance has proved enormously wasteful, with large administrative expenditures on activities that include developing insurance packages, marketing those packages, and assessing claims.
Storing warheads that are filled with chemicals would be dangerous and wasteful.
Mobilizing resources for these programs depends on cutting wasteful programs and rooting out corruption in our bureaucracy.
They may induce wasteful investment and a loss in innovation.
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