Exempel på squandering

• His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy.

• It is precisely such a squandering of self-mastery, honor, reputation, and wealth that the wine poem depicts for its aesthetic purposes.

• Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money.

• They were packed with taverns and liquor stores that invited drinking and gambling and the squandering of wages.

• We change for the sake of change, obliterating what was there before, often without finding out what or why it was, and squandering the planet's resources along the way.

• She objected when he took to squandering the money that he received, returning home once he had run out of cash to be re-supplied by her.

• We find incisive views on social phenomena, such as criticism of reckless youth squandering a fortune, the seamy side of the city's nightlife or social inequality.

• The councillor would be surcharged for seemingly squandering that money.

• In any case, it has displayed the failure of ten years of diplomacy and highlighted the oversights, the shortcomings and the squanderings, of international co-operation.

• Worst of all, they have billions of oil revenue that they are squandering on financing mass unemployment.

• While we are squandering our national strength on confrontation between labour and management, they have no adversarial industrial relations.

• It helped to keep him out of the pub and from squandering time and money in the betting shop—money which he could not afford.

• It must not be based, as at present, on greed and the squandering of wealth by multinational companies and international banks.

• But there is an opportunity to regain some of the credit we have lost through squandering the capital of the success of our referendum.

• It would be squandering that very expensive experience if we did not use it in the advisory committee that is to be set up.