squandered

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  • The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels.

  • In fact, compared to the efficiency (and self-sufficiency) of photosynthesis, much more energy is squandered when one animal consumes another or consumes plant material.

  • Precious foreign currency needed for raw materials purchases could not be squandered on debt servicing.

  • Several major opportunities to cross-reference information were squandered during the production of this encyclopaedia and that means its value as a research tool is limited.

  • She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.

  • The old were provided for within the family, and the law made sure that family land could not be squandered.

  • Money that could be paid as tax was squandered in these canteens.

  • In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in the prodigious amounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine.

  • The latter were already condemned in 1739 as morally corrupt, vain petty potentates who squandered what little credit and resources they possessed on indigent luxury.

  • Those who squandered loans on ill-advised projects and corruption will feel vindicated.

  • Free trade offered a chance to relax pressure on the environment and open the countryside to everybody but the opportunity was squandered by cashing in on blood sports.

  • I had squandered a splendid opportunity.

  • On a number of occasions, it took up to two hours to locate a doctor to prescribe analgesia, with considerable time squandered as all parties 'cross-communicated' to achieve adequate prescriptions.

  • This freedom to choose seemed such a precious gift, an opportunity to involve one's inner purposes in a life's work, a gift that must not be squandered.

  • The return might be uncertain, but it should not be unreasonable, and capital ought not to be squandered on commercial enterprises that promise mainly non-commercial gains.

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