It is regarded by some as one of the EU's most successful policies, and by others as a waste of money.
John Maynard Keynes and Irving Fisher, among others, opposed the gold standard as a waste of valuable resources.
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Another is that many students and teachers alike now see many of their classes as a waste of time.
Clearly, taken as a whole, millennials do not see business as a waste.
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As such, the instant appeal is cast as a waste of judicial resources.
He could easily afford the best but would regard that as a waste.
Do not consider anything you have done in the past as a waste.
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Sure, my mother viewed socializing with others as a waste of time.
In New Zealand, Dr. Snell's research sparked a national controversy after it was lambasted by a member of parliament as a waste of taxpayer money.
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For six years, Mr Mathern has attempted to correct the constitution, although he says he was always defeated by colleagues who dismissed it as a waste of time.
Judging Say on Pay as a waste of time, in only its second year, because shareholders have approved the vast majority of pay packages with overwhelming support, is also nonsense.
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It is unfair to categorise Syrian plans for irrigation as a waste of water when Turkey plans much more, yet has a climate better suited to rain-fed agriculture than Syria's or Iraq's.
And he quoted a letter from a consultant at Guy's Hospital in London who said setting waiting list targets was contrary to the practice of clinical need and condemned it as a waste of tax-payers' money.
Most of them view it as a waste of time but a handful say that compared to making a long-distance phone call, it is still an inexpensive way to communicate with their friends and family who live in other countries.
While a fortress balance sheet is appealing in times of crisis, many investors see a massive cash cushion in calmer times as a waste, particularly given the open debt markets for large liquid issuers and the negligible returns from holding cash.
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However, Tech City's many critics have said the visa has been ineffective in helping to hire talent from outside the EU, while other initiatives - such as a revamped Old Street Roundabout - have been dismissed as a waste of money.
The EU has identified construction and demolition waste as a priority waste stream which means that policies and measures ensuring increased recycling of CND waste versus landfill and incineration will take priority.
While the Environmental Protection Agency would prefer to regulate the byproduct that contains arsenic, mercury and lead under stricter federal hazardous waste laws, the utility sector wants it to remain classified as a solid waste that the states now oversee.
The Liberal Democrats also criticised the proposed trials as "a waste of time and money".
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Well corn-derived ethanol has been derided for years as being a waste of food.
He had absolutely nothing to do with literature, which he abominated as "a waste of perception".
But Mr Cameron has dismissed such talk, describing UKIP as a "waste of time".
This is the proposal to use a Nevada mountain site as a nuclear waste repository.
Right now, coal combustion byproducts are categorized as a solid waste.
Viridor said it was disappointed by the decision as the quarry has been earmarked by the county council as a suitable waste site.
Their thesis, entitled The Meaning of the Coronation, accepted that there were some who had dismissed the whole affair as a ridiculous waste of money.
But if the material is reclassified as a hazardous waste, coal groups say that coal ash would be irreversibly stigmatized and any ancillary use of it would evaporate.
Even though Tampa Bay fans treat the Trop as a toxic waste dump all year, even for big games at the end of the season, history shows they tend to show up once the Rays are actually in the playoffs.
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