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Bush squandered a large part of America’s military strength in Mesopotamia for an ideological fiction – strength that is sorely missed in the region ten years later.
The US adventure in Iraq has squandered $150 billion over two years, while Bolivia received $10 million--that's right, $10 million--in "emergency" help, a fifteenth or less of what was realistically needed to ease the intense economic crisis and help displaced peasants.
But too often Europe’s latent power has been squandered by introversion and division.
T he great opportunities offered by European integration have been largely squandered.
Still, it is right to ask if the American way of life will survive the twenty-first century, and, if it does, whether it will survive in America or migrate elsewhere as the US economy and political system collapse under the accumulated weight of decades of myopic national leadership and squandered opportunities.
Many countries have been in this position before, exhilarated by natural-resource bonanzas, only to see the boom end in disappointment and the opportunity squandered, with little payoff in terms of a better quality of life for their people.
The OMT scheme amounts to free insurance against a default by southern eurozone countries, thereby subsidizing the return of private capital flows to places where they were squandered before.
The geopolitical legacy of the USSR as a great power has been squandered over the years of "reform."
But they squandered the opportunity in 2000 at Camp David, when Ehud Barak proposed what no other Israeli leader was ever ready to offer: a two-state solution with shared sovereignty over Jerusalem.
The opportunity to build a safer, fairer, and more united world has been largely squandered.
The agreement created a diplomatic window to stabilize the region, but that opportunity was squandered.
A Squandered Golden OpportunityPALO ALTO – A group of multi-national European scientists has used gene-splicing techniques to create an extraordinary tomato.
When it is squandered, as in Greece, promises have no value, and governments have no choice but to cut spending immediately.
The party has squandered that opportunity.
But it is also important to ensure that valuable assets and practices built up by the GPEI over time are not squandered once polio is gone.
Instead, Africa squandered the opportunity on consumption of foreign goods.
Sadly, they shirked their responsibility by passing a bill that squandered this opportunity.
American Democrats say that President Bush's policies have squandered America's attractiveness.
But the US has largely squandered its chance, allowing China to continue to broaden its territorial claims.
Although Brazil boasts effective tax collection and its central bank has a reputation for prudent monetary policy, fiscal resources are squandered on social programs and on constitutionally mandated expenditures that produce low returns, owing to poor public-sector implementation.
It is an opportunity that should not be squandered.
But many of migration’s benefits are squandered.
But we also know that the political space that we have secured is too precious to be squandered.
A clear opportunity to feed the population is being squandered as a result of politics and bureaucracy, and Kenya, unfortunately, is not alone in Africa in this regard.
Another squandered legacy -- with serious political consequences -- was the relative equality bequeathed by Communism.
But the therapeutic power of antibiotics is being squandered by their imprudent use in agriculture.
Yet May has already squandered the opportunity by continuing to insist on so-called red lines, which include rejection of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The central problem is that Europeans have squandered their most powerful source of leverage: unity.
President Bush's tax cut, however, squandered the surplus.
But Ali’s grandson, Ismail, squandered that independence with profligate spending, establishing a dependency on external assistance that persists to this day.
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