On the other hand, it is the wastefulness of individuals which occasions the impoverishment of states.
I saw the flocks moving high above me where all was wastefulness and rockiness, and heard the voices of the shepherds.
But if the seeming wastefulness contributes to win the battle, and the economy endangers that result, the wastefulness is surely sound wisdom, the economy penny-wise.
A hatchet seen in a dream, denotes that wanton wastefulness will expose you to the evil designs of envious persons.
To think you are asphyxiated, denotes you will have trouble which you will needlessly incur through your own wastefulness and negligence.
No matter how moderate and restrained the description may be, the impression can hardly fail to be one of appalling wastefulness and confusion.
Here we shall confine ourselves to its wastefulness in time and money.
But the democracy of Athens did demonstrate the internal wastefulness of a polity dominated by purely military aims.
Fifthly, the sequel to this is the growing recognition of the folly and wastefulness of war.
Truly understand what necessary frugality, or parsimony, and sinful wastefulness are.
One way of sinful wastefulness is, In pampering the belly in excess, curiosity, or costliness of meat or drink, of which I have spoken, chap.
Now some sins are contraries, as wastefulness and miserliness.
Hence whoever is subject to the sin of wastefulness is not simultaneously subject to the sin of miserliness, yet it may happen that he has been subject to it hitherto.
It was the deliberate evil wastefulness of the war-makers in their own countries.
With calm wastefulness he peeled away the biggest part of the white of the egg with the shell--because it came away so.
The extraordinary wastefulness of foreign life is a fact that strikes one hard after life in the interior.
It has been the custom during the nineteenth century to institute comparisons between the marvellous economy of steam power and the expensive wastefulness of human muscular effort.
Another potent factor in this wastefulness is the irresponsible foreign element of the mill districts, who dig clams for their own use, large or small, with entire indifference.
The unfortunate thing about the whole matter is that most of thiswastefulness is entirely needless; but this is a problem for future legislation.
If you repress wastefulness you will diminish, by so much, the production of wealth by the wasteful, by the luxurious and the vain.
Moreover, such wastefulness creates a tendency toward thriftless character among the people.
There is another kind of wastefulness resulting from excessive competition for a particular business or a particular trade.
Wastefulness destroys the seeds of which prosperity is the fruit.
Wastefulness throws away the pennies, and so must go without the dollars which the pennies make.
The wastefulness of woman is commonly the fault of man.
The American spirit of wastefulness should not run riot as it had in times past.
If wastefulness could once come to be considered a sin of ostentation and low-breeding, it would not have so many followers.
The wastefulness of Western life had impressed him more than its greed of pleasure and its capacity for pain: in the clean poverty of his own land he saw strength; in her unselfish thrift, the sole chance of competing with the Occident.
Provisions were becoming scarce by reason of the usual wastefulness of the volunteers, who still continued their disobedient and independent tactics, and Atkinson, becoming alarmed, issued general order No.
It aims to permanently check the wastefulness of go-as-you-please forestry now evident from every car-window in this country.
He said in his speech at Seattle a year ago that there could be greater waste by non-development and by non-use than there had been by the wastefulness of the past.
He promulgated his ideas far and wide, and demonstrated all over Europe the extreme wastefulness of current methods of using fuel.
Every increase in expenditure is greeted by them with joy, and wastefulness in national and local undertakings is rather encouraged than condemned.