Ejemplos de uso de wasted effort
1. Some people see all the studies as wasted effort.
2. In the following years, aid to the region duly increased by 130%, but incomes fell and poverty increased during a "lost decade". This is not the standard Afro–pessimist argument that more help for the continent is a wasted effort.
3. Anger at wasted effort as Brown withdraws support Numbers can‘t tell you everything, insists FRC Mark Milner and Jill Treanor Tuesday November 2', 2005 The Guardian Major City investors may yet revive the corporate reporting standards abandoned by Gordon Brown yesterday by incorporating them into the combined code on corporate governance with which companies already comply.
4. In a matter of months, the Democrats had managed to create a perception that U.S. support –– to the tune of nearly $5 billion over the last seven years –– for Colombia‘s strategy to end four decades of internal conflict had been a wasted effort.
5. All the money that Afghanistan earns [in transit fees] will disappear on purchases of goods from SAARC states." Bashardost concluded that joining SAARC was a wasted effort. «Afghan leaders… have miscalculated, and took Afghanistan into SAARC without looking at the current domestic economic situation," he said.