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Inefficiency in sentence

124 examples of Inefficiency in a sentence

The staggering inefficiency is what drove me to criminal justice work.
For me, poor addressing was an annoying frustration, but for billions of people, it's a huge business inefficiency, severely hampers their infrastructure growth, and can cost lives.
Instead of growing plants, feeding them to animals, and all of that inefficiency, let's grow those plants, let's biomimic meat with them, let's make plant-based meat.
My answer to all these questions is: inspired inefficiency.
There are seven facets of inspired inefficiency.
Summing up, to be truly efficient, we need optimal inefficiency.
But a bit of inspired inefficiency can strengthen it.
And we were helped by the market inefficiency.
It's a pretty capable procedural and surprised me with its subtextually rich narrative that shows his distrust for small minded small-town mentality and the inefficiency of the police, as well as the twisted ideals of the Catholic church, the last of which seemed to have cut this film at its knees when it was first released and could have possibly given the director another direction so early on.
In the past there may have been a will to oppress but it was counter-balanced or diffused by ineffectiveness or inefficiency of the government.
By contrast, the innovation supply chain (the process by which companies obtain and/or develop future products and improve on their current products) tends to be characterized by inefficiency, ambiguity, and competition.
It would remove two major sources of corruption and inefficiency: the customs service and the misuse of public funds in general.
But now Putin’s style of government is Russia’s primary source of instability, as the country’s middle class takes to the streets in protest against the corruption and inefficiency of his rule.
Far from creating a healthy complementarity between the sexes, it perpetuates dependence on both sides and creates widespread inefficiency.
The need for security clearances – and the notorious inefficiency of the process for granting new ones – severely restricts competition.
With hard times approaching, will Cristina try to be a twenty-first-century Evita and create an epic by exploiting Argentines’ flamboyant tendencies, armed with an exceptional power or will she adopt Rouseff’s sensible attitude and combat inefficiency and corruption while strengthening governmental institutions?
It is thus not surprising that some Europeans - particularly the French - are so reluctant to reform the international organizations, even in terms of cutting waste and inefficiency at the UN.
Exacerbating this inefficiency are slow train speeds, which rarely exceed 50 kilometers per hours (and 30 kilometers per hour for freight), partly owing to the need to stop at an ever-rising number of stations to appease political interests.
In my public life, I emphasized eliminating discretionary regulations – the main source of both inefficiency and corruption.
The party has simply stepped in where the Greek state – long plagued by inefficiency and corruption – has retreated, providing basic welfare and other services to desperate citizens, while engaging in unprecedented violence against people who are or look like immigrants.
The whole point of economic development is, surely, to reduce the cost of inefficiency.
This inefficiency has likely contributed to the decline in confidence in American institutions.
This invites corruption and inefficiency.
After all, it is impossible to avoid all risk, and, at a certain point, the level of inefficiency generated by excessive robustness would create new risks of collapse.
When the crisis hits with full force, the government would nationalize major banks and companies, with the resulting inefficiency then burying the Russian economy, just as it doomed the Soviet Union.
Courts’ inefficiency protects insiders and impedes entrepreneurship.
The weakened connection between public services and taxes not only makes it easier for officials to cling to power, but also increases the scope for corruption and inefficiency.
Ironically, the lights-out campaign also implies much greater energy inefficiency and dramatically higher levels of air pollution.
Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff described the situation as furtive and camouflaged by the inefficiency of the formal decision-making process.
With capital intensity increasing significantly faster than labor productivity in China, the inefficiency of investment is clear.
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