These ranged from a Muslim initiative to make the haj or pilgrimage to Mecca less environmentally wasteful to a Daoist pledge to burn less incense.
This time, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), dragged from a wasteful retirement, takes on a brute named Bane (Tom Hardy), who is masked and barely comprehensible.
Obama stoutly defended his nearly trillion-dollar stimulus plan attacked by Republicans as wasteful and a burden on future generations and looked upon with suspicion by many Americans as a necessary immediate step to revive the economy in the short term.
Ugh, there he goes, getting into a limousine, making the wasteful emissions of a private taxi cab seem absolutely eco-friendly in comparison to his limo.
So, when the Senate and the House of Representatives agreed to end the earmarking process a few years ago, it certainly appeared to be a positive step in the direction of gaining a little control over wasteful government spending and a move towards bringing a bit of honestly to the process of government.
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Producing the methanol itself obviously requires energy as well, so it looks like a wasteful step.
Epstein, however, sees a wasteful parallel regulatory system that doesn't distribute the benefits it claims to.
You know, the senator has been committed to cutting wasteful spending for a long time.
Bathing in their too-bright, wasteful light became a sort of guilty pleasure, like absinthe or chocolate creams.
Cable operators could spur competition only by investing in two parallel networks, a wasteful excess of bandwidth.
Ignoring the new tool, and its advantages, was a wasteful decision that hurt him and his customers.
The first is that it overlooks the possibility that diplomas, whatever their economic value, are manufactured in a wasteful fashion.
Cost-cutter that he is, Daly still bristles at the suggestion that there's nothing for him to do but wring efficiencies from a wasteful old organization.
The Western world finds itself in a state of decadence, leading a wasteful lifestyle, more or less like the Roman Empire in its last years.
Those who favour independence, especially the current government, grouse that they have been forced into a wasteful and costly arrangement with Serbia against their will.
And that's why we eliminate a wasteful subsidy to banks that lend to college students, and use that money to revitalize community colleges and make college more affordable.
They pretend to have Ventura fend off the "Evil Special Interest Man" doll and reject a wasteful bill as an announcer shouts: "You can make Jesse battle special interest groups!"
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Thomas Drake, who worked at the National Security Agency, was threatened with life imprisonment for leaking to the Baltimore Sun unclassified details of a wasteful programme that also impinged on privacy.
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National health care is shut down as a wasteful socialist mistake, boondoggle subsidies for alternative energy are eliminated, and the savings are used to justify huge tax cuts for high income earners.
Mr Corzine claims he can find money for more property-tax rebates and better public services by cutting wasteful spending, a common politician's claim which may, nonetheless, be truer in New Jersey than in many other places.
Mr Clegg is a free-market liberal who would fit happily into the liberal traditions of Dutch politics: whereas the left of his party still looks to the state to deliver improvements, Mr Clegg is among those who suspect that a top-down state is a wasteful provider of services, let alone social change.
We have to accept either that future economic development is at the mercy of a hugely wasteful process, or that we can refine this new system to make it a significantly more efficient resource allocation process.
"They've allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit, " he said, renewing his demand for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that includes higher taxes.
Reports of the lavish conference have prompted taxpayer outrage, embarrassed the administration and put a spotlight on wasteful spending by the agency, which acts as a real estate agency for the federal government.
Accordingly, while returning to earmarks may mean a return to wasteful spending of taxpayer money on projects that bring no benefit to the nation as a whole, it could also mean saving even more money than is wasted by avoiding the financial setbacks that come with endless debt ceiling debacles and fiscal cliff fumbles.
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It seems wasteful to make such a fire when cooking for one or two.
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But, we all know there is something a little wasteful, artery-clogging, and, well, depressing about feeding yourself from shiny, grease-covered cartons.
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Japan already has a vast deficit, thanks to years of wasteful public-works projects funded in a vain attempt to revive its sick economy.
Often, this is a trial and error process, which can be wasteful as compute resources are used each time a new combination of settings is tried.
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