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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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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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And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.
We don't like waste, and at the moment we feel there is a lot of wasteful things going on.
Even if the freshmen Democrats can somehow reform the filibuster next January, the Senate will remain a sclerotic, wasteful, unhappy body.
They are also a clear example of what is wrong with our current paradigm which involves using resources in a linear, wasteful and polluting way.
With Foster standing up well to block Tevez's effort when one-on-one, Manchester City were left to rue their wasteful finishing when Birmingham grabbed a fully deserved equaliser in the 77th minute.
Building new lines would be a dangerous and probably wasteful investment in this context.
It is hard to think of a messier and more wasteful way of shifting from fossil and nuclear fuel to renewable energy than the one Germany has blundered into.
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