Waste Sentence Examples

Gabe didn't waste time.

I can't afford to waste the buck.

The reactor area, the storage and logistical areas, and the hazardous waste areas appeared untouched.

Reluctantly, he agreed to waste his Sunday with Vinnie and learned from Sackler that a uniformed officer had delivered Vinnie's clothes earlier.

He wouldn't be caught dead with a bouquet of wildflowers and there was no way he was going to waste money on flowers that would wither and die within a week.

Then don't waste any more of my time.

You earned the trip, even though it's a waste of time.

Just you light out and make for that rock, Jim; and don't waste any time about it, either.

Is it OK to dump nuclear waste in the ocean?

After a zillion years sleeping on the floor, I won't waste another night outside a real bed.

I must not waste any more time.

It's not as if I wasn't in police work long enough to know that, but Billy's death was such a god-awful waste of a young life.

That evening, Jackson and Elisabeth stayed up late as they had for the previous full moon, neither wanting to waste precious time together sleeping.

If we get started on this Cooms guy's offer, we'll waste all day.

As powerful and patient as he was, he wouldn't hesitate to lay waste to anything between them.

Why waste time beating around the bush?

He was determined not to waste a single minute of his time with Elisabeth.

Only one thing made him different than before in that moment, and talking would have been a waste of precious time.

In the industrial regions of northern France cattle are stall-fed with the waste products of the beet-sugar factories, oil-works and distilleries.

Much as I crave revenge, I'll turn away and not waste my time assaulting his castle again.

In this case, I didn't waste my time trying.

It was a royal preserve, and remains for the most part an uncultivated waste, but it is also a rich coalfield, and there are mines in every direction.

In 1700 it was bombarded by the united fleets of England, Holland and Sweden; in 1728 a conflagration destroyed 1640 houses and five churches; another in 1795 laid waste 943 houses, the church of St Nicolas, and the Raadhus.

A large proportion of the sand-grounds, however, is waste.

It would be such a terrible waste to impair a mind like his.

Waste lands are chiefly composed of the barren stretches of heaths found in Drente, Overysel, Gelderland and North Brabant.

It lies near the river Don, in a low, flat district, which was formerly a marshy waste, resembling the fens of the eastern counties.

In the intermittent system the waste heat can, it is true, be utilized either for raising steam (but inefficiently and inconveniently, because of the intermittency), or by a regenerative method like the Siemens, Fig.

These preparations are in some cases expensive, and there is generally a considerable percentage of waste.

The smaller and uneven pieces of heads and legs are made up into linings, so there is absolutely no waste.

Inorganic and other waste matters are stored in the leaf-tissue and thus got rid of by the plant.

Though there is great waste of labour, he can apply his labour when he likes; no permission is required from a government official; no one has to be bribed.

In other cases tanks are fed from neighbouring streams, and the greatest ingenuity is displayed in preventing the precious water from going to waste.

In the unexpected prolongation of the war, volunteer enlistments became too slow to replenish the waste of armies, and in 1863 the government was forced to resort to a draft.

Besides the ordinary waste of the shores, there have been extensive inundations by the sea within the historic period, the gulf of the Doliart having been so caused in the year 1276.

Below lies the city with its ancient walls and lofty towers, its gardens and squares, its palaces and its mosques, with their delicately-carved domes and minarets covered with fantastic tracery, the port of Bulak, the gardens and palace of Shubra, the broad river studded with islands, the valley of the Nile dotted with groups of trees, with the pyramids on the north horizon, and on the east the barren cliffs, backed by a waste of sand.

The low sandy shore of the Delta, slowly increasing by the annual deposit of silt by the river, is mostly a barren area of sand-hills and salty waste land.

Under improved conditions the area of cultivated land, or land in process of reclamation, had risen in 1906 to 5,750,000 acres, while another 500,000 acres of waste land awaited reclamation.

The Cave report showed that Egypt suffered from the ignorance, dishonesty, waste and extravagance of the East and from the vast expense caused by hasty and inconsiderate endeavours to adopt the civilization of the West.

The cultivation of buckwheat on these grounds has decreased, and large areas which were formerly thus treated now lie waste.

Drente took part in the revolt of the Netherlands, and being a district covered by waste heath and moor was, on account of its poverty and sparse population, not admitted into the union as a separate province, and it had no voice in the assembly of the states-general.

Fields were laid waste, villages burnt, large numbers of people carried into captivity; and on one occasion the capital was itself in danger.

Numerous small irrigation channels lead off from them, by means of which a considerable area of waste land has been brought under cultivation.

Coleridge seemed to him to be ineffectual as a philosopher, and personally to be a melancholy instance of genius running to waste.

This principle is in constant action; it regulates the colour, the figure, the capacities and instincts; those individuals in each species whose colour and covering are best suited to concealment or protection from enemies, or defence from inclemencies or vicissitudes of climate, whose figure is best accommodated to health, strength, defence and support; whose capacities and instincts can best regulate the physical energies to self-advantage according to circumstances - in such immense waste of primary and youthful life those only come to maturity from the strict ordeal by which nature tests their adaptation to her standard of perfection and fitness to continue their kind by reproduction."

It is a waste, destitute of water and with but scanty vegetation.

The most interesting of all the non-Arab communities in the country, however, is without doubt the Samaritan sect in Nablus (Shechem); a gradually disappearing body, which has maintained an independent existence from the time when they were first settled by the Assyrians to occupy the land left waste by the captivity of the kingdom of Israel.

From the Connecticut to the Raritan the savages rose in arms, laid waste the farms, massacred the settlers and compelled those who escaped to take refuge on Manhattan Island.

Crossing the Rhine, he attacked and routed the Marsi, and laid waste the valley of the Ems.

The drying of the slurry is generally effected by the waste heat of the kilns, so that while one charge is burning another is drying ready for the next loading of the kilns.

In each case the clinker which has just been burned and is fully hot serves to heat the air-supply to the compart ment where combustion is actu ally proceeding; in like manner the raw materials about to be burned are well heated by the waste gases from the compartment in full activity before they them selves are burned.

The farming is, however, chiefly pastoral, nearly one-third of the county is common or waste land, and its number of sheep (mainly of the Radnor Forest breed) far exceeds that of any other county in Wales.

The third and last stage in the progress of the art of casting was the employment of a core, generally of clay, round which the metal was cast in a mere skin, only thick enough for strength, without waste of metal.

In steam boilers artificial galvanic couples are often set up by the suspension of zinc plates in the boiler, so that the corrosion of the zinc may preserve the steel boiler plates from waste.

In the former case, the first reaction is produced in castiron pans or " pots," very heavy castings of circular section, fired from below, either directly or by the waste heat from the mufflefurnace.

Moreover it is of a most disagreeable kind, as the waste "still-liquor," containing very much free hydrochloric acid and even some free chlorine, forms a most deleterious impurity when finding its way into drains or watercourses, apart from the intolerable nuisance caused by the escapes of chlorine from the stills and otherwise, which cannot be at all times avoided.

This additional lime, which is called the " basis," certainly takes up hydrochloric acid in the next stage of the process, but that causes no more waste of acid than the incomplete action on native manganese ore, mentioned before.

This may consist of a steam injector by means of which air is made to bubble through the liquid, which produces both the required agitation and the heating, and at the same time oxidizes at least part of the sulphides; but this method of agitation causes a great waste of steam and at the same time a further dilution of the liquor.

The solution of calcium chloride is run to waste, the ammonia is re-introduced into the process.

The reversible character of the principal reaction has the consequence that a considerable portion of the sodium chloride (up to 33%) is lost, being contained in the waste calcium chloride solution which issues from the ammonia stills.

It is true that all the chlorine combined with the sodium is lost partly as NaC1 and partly as CaC1 2; none of the innumerable attempts at recovering the chlorine from the waste liquor has been made to pay, and success is less likely than ever since the perfection of the electrolytic processes.

It is a waste, elevated, desolate region that the route traverses, and the road itself is only open at certain seasons of the year.

In Burma, where the large waste area is being gradually brought under cultivation, there has been an almost uninterrupted increase in the area of the rice crop, and the rice export is one of the main industries of the province.

As cultivation advances, the area of waste land available for grazing steadily diminishes, and the prospects of the poor beasts are becoming worse rather than better.

The extension of cultivation was considered as the chief care of government, and no regard was paid to the improvident waste going on on all sides.

A little reconstruction made Dartmoor into a modern gaol, and in the waste lands around there was ample labour for any number of convict hands.

Very similar operations have been carried out in Austria-Hungary, where large tracts of land have been brought into cultivation, and watercourses have been diverted successfully despite serious difficulties, climatic and physical; in Russia convict labour has been largely used in the construction of the Trans-siberian railway; the military operations in the Sudan were greatly aided by convict labourers engaged in useful work at the base and all along the line; Italy passed a law in 1904 enacting outdoor labour for the reclamation and draining of waste lands by prisoners under long sentence; and France, although much wedded to cellular imprisonment, is beginning to favour extra-mural employment of prisoners under strict regulations.

When the former is used it is roasted with calcium sulphate or alkali waste to form a matte which is then blown in a Bessemer converter or heated in a reverberatory furnace with a siliceous flux with the object of forming a rich nickel sulphide.

In the hope of creating a diversion in Babak's favour, Theophilus in 837 fell upon and laid waste the frontier town of Zibatra.

In refusing to waste men in attempting more than was necessary Cadorna took the right decision, and won a notable success.

The ancient harbour (really but a portion of the lagoons, which had been deepened) is now completely silted up. Even in early times a canal had to be kept open by perpetual digging, while about 1700 this was closed, and now a sandy and partly cultivated waste extends between the town and the seashore.

The waste of heat in the chimney gases is accordingly greater; and further, the metallic shell is liable to be quickly burned away as a result of its contact at a high temperature with free oxygen.

Rapid settlement, excessive prices, reckless waste of money, and wild commercial ventures that glutted San Francisco with all objects usable and unusable made the following years astounding from an economic point of view; but not less bizarre was the social development, nor less extraordinary the problems of state-building in a society " morally and socially tried as no other American community ever has been tried " (Royce).

The corporation of the city of London then acquired the freehold interest of waste land belonging to the lords of the manor, and finally secured 5559b acres, magnificently timbered, to the use of the public for ever, the tract being declared open by Queen Victoria in 1882.

The Mongols, as they advanced, sacked towns and laid waste the agricultural lands.

Beowulf, with fourteen companions, sails to Denmark, to offer his help to Hrothgar, king of the Danes, whose hall (called " Heorot ") has for twelve years been rendered uninhabitable by the ravages of a devouring monster (apparently in gigantic human shape) called Grendel, a dweller in the waste, who used nightly to force an entrance and slaughter some of the inmates.

The winter here, especially in the elevated region of the Paramera and the waste lands of Avila, is long and severe, but the climate is not unhealthy.

Wide tracts of waste land were planted with pinewoods by the ducal house of Medina Sidonia.

In the 9th century it was destroyed by the Danes, but being refounded became the centre of a Danish colony, and until laid waste by the Conqueror was the most prosperous town in the district.

Velia up to the low cliffs of the Esquiline, and in another it laid waste the Aventine, the Forum Boarium and Velabrum till it reached the Tiber and the solid barrier of the Servian wall.

In this regard it is somewhat difficult to draw the line between that which is a rational and scientific method for preventing waste of good material and sophistication pure and simple.

It is supposed that the forests were much richer before the settlement of the state, which was followed by reckless consumption and waste, and the more terrible ravages of fire.

The rainfall is ample for their needs, but no other reserves in the country showed in 1900 such waste by fire and pillage.

The copper output was of slight importance until 1889 - $ 1, 457,749 in 1905, and $1,544,918 in 1907; and that of zinc was nil until 1902, when discoveries made it possible to rework for this metal enormous dumps of waste material about the mines, and in 1906 the zinc output was valued at $5,304,884.

The production of qualities which would have suited many purposes of consumption was prohibited, and the odious supervision which became necessary involved great waste of time and a stereotyped regularity which resisted all improvements.

According to Simeon of Durham it extended from the Humber to the Tyne, but the land was waste north of the Tees.

Shaft furnaces are in use for ores rich in sulphur, and where it is desirable to convert the waste gases into sulphuric acid.

Reverberatory roasting does not admit of the utilization of the waste gases, and requires fine ores and much labour and fuel; it has, however, the advantage of being rapid.

They involve high cost in fuel and labour, but permit the utilization of the waste gases.

In time the original impure copper of the plates becomes replaced by refined copper, but if the plates are initially very impure and dissolve irregularly, it may happen that much residual scrap may have to be remelted, or that some of the metal may be twice refined, thus involving a waste of energy.

In the middle ages Tortona was zealously attached to the Guelphs, on which account it was twice laid waste by Frederick Barbarossa, in 1155 and 1163.

There it appears to inhabit every waste sufficiently extensive to afford it the solitude it loves.

His waste of time and treasure upon a fascinating mistress named Shadu l-Mulk, the delight of the kingdom, soon brought about his deposition, and in 1408 he gave way to Shah Rukh, who, with the exception of Miran Shah, was the only surviving son of Timur.

They had besieged and taken Herat, killed the governor, plundered the town, and laid waste the surrounding country.

The health of the body depends upon the proper kind and supply of food, upon its proper digestion and absorption, on the proper metabolism or tissue-change in the body, and the proper excretion of waste.

We have also considered in a general way the treatment of local diseases by passive protection, active protection and repair of waste; but both maintenance of health and repair of waste depend very largely upon the condition of the blood.

In order to keep the blood in a satisfactory condition it must be well supplied with fresh nutriment, and the products Nutrition of waste freely eliminated.

In health most of the nitrogenous waste in the body is eliminated as urea, but in gout uric acid is either formed in too great quantity or too little is eliminated, so that it tends to be deposited as urate of soda in the joints and other tissues.

It is usual to reduce the quantity of proteid food to a minimum, in order to lessen the amount of nitrogenous waste to be excreted by the kidneys.

In very bad cases of heart disease, where the patient is unable to go about, the best plan of treatment usually is to make him stay absolutely quiet in bed and have massage, which aids the circulation, tends to remove waste, and increases the appetite.

In prolonged attacks the limb may waste and be drawn up and fixed in one position.

In1817-1819the Kaffirs returned and laid waste a large area.

This time, however, he crosses Pamir, of which he gives a remarkable account, and passes by Kashgar, Khotan (Kustana), and the vicinity of Lop-nor across the desert to Kwa-chow, whence he had made his venturous and lonely plunge into the waste fifteen years before.

The Portuguese troops cut Massena's communications; the peasants, under instructions from Wellington, had already laid waste their own farms, destroyed the roads and bridges by which Massena might retreat, and burned their boats on the Tagus.

It had only gained a partial success cause the despotic rule of Pombal, like the Inquisition before im, hindered freedom of fancy and discussion, and drove the Arcadians to waste themselves on flattering the powerful.

An old waste book, still preserved, contains entries of amounts of cloth sent from Tenterden to London.

Golden Gate Park (about 1014 acres) was a waste of barren sand dunes when acquired by the municipality in 1870, but skilful planting and cultivation have entirely transformed its character.

For the reservation of the water-partings in the past considerably denuded by lumbermen and ranchmen the increase of the forest areas, and the creation of reservoirs along the rivers, to control their erratic flow 2 and impound their flood waste for purposes of irrigation, much has been done by the national government.

It was completely repulsed, with heavy losses, and the Bulgarian command, sobered, took care not to waste its reserves in renewed assaults.

It needed a Virchow to open the eyes of the municipality to the terrible waste of life such a state of things entailed.

In these and the other 93 saw-mills in the state in 1905 steam generated by the waste wood was the common power.

The policy of granting land without payment, originally in force in New South Wales, had been abandoned in favour of sales of the public lands by auction at the upset price of twenty shillings per acre; and the system of squatting licences, under which colonists were allowed to occupy the waste lands on payment of a small annual licence, had been conceded.

Under these acts a sanitary authority is authorized to take proceedings to restrain interference with the due flow of a stream or the pollution of its waters by throwing into it the solid refuse of any manufactory or quarry, or any rubbish or cinders, or any other waste or any putrid solid matter.

The keeping of swine in a dwelling-house, or so as to be a nuisance, is made an offence punishable by a penalty in an urban district, as also is the suffering of any waste or stagnant water to remain in any cellar, or within any dwelling-house after notice, and the allowing of the contents of any closet, privy or cesspool to overflow or soak therefrom.

Persian Seistan was once highly cultivated by means of a great system of canal irrigation; but for centuries, since the country was devastated by Timur, it has been a barren, treeless waste of flat alluvial plain.

Dactylis glomerata (cock's-foot), a perennial grass with a dense panicle, common in pastures and waste places is a useful meadow-grass.

In the spring and Britain summer of 1901 a fresh expedition from Harrar was undertaken against the mullah, who was laying waste / the Ogaden country.

Many of his paternal ventures led to little more than waste of money, or the creation of hotbeds of jobbery.

Balancing these mystic joys is the stern tone of his Resolutions, in which he is almost ascetic in his eagerness to live earnestly and soberly, to waste no time, to maintain the strictest temperance in eating and drinking.

It comprises about Soo houses of Afghan settlers, a colony of Jews and a small bazaar, set in the midst of a waste of ruins and many acres of debris.

In other words, when taxes are very moderate and the revenue appropriated by the state is a small part only of the aggregate of individual incomes, it seems possible that individuals in a rich country may waste individually resources which the state could apply to very profitable purposes.

Thousands of square miles in Lower Bengal annually receive a top-dressing of virgin soil from the Himalayas, - a system of natural manuring which renders elaborate tillage a waste of labour, and defies the utmost power of over-cropping to exhaust its fertility.

The first actual mention of the county comes in 1016 when King Canute laid waste to the whole shire.

Bayezid subsequently invaded and laid waste a large part of Walachia, but the voivode succeeded in inflicting considerable loss on the retiring Turks, and the capture of Bayezid by Timur in 1402 gave the country a reprieve.

Three years later a Polish invasion of Moldavia under John Albert with 80,000 men ended in disaster, and shortly afterwards the voivode Stephen, aided by a Turkish and Tatar contingent, laid waste the Polish territories to the upper waters of the Vistula, and succeeded in annexing for a time the Polish province of Pokutia, between the Carpathians and the Dniester.

Like Drente on the north and Gelderland on the south, Overysel consists of a sandy flat relieved by hillocks, and is covered with waste stretches of heath and patches of wood and high fen.

For others subject to the same temptations, but without that earnestness and insight which he felt himself to possess, faith might be quite impossible, and it would only be waste of time and trouble to try to show to them "the only path of peace."

The silver wattle grows freely in shifting sands and by its means waste lands, e.g.

It was clear, therefore, that in its very nature, house-to-house visitation was both wasteful and insufficient, and it remained for Liverpool to correct the difficulty by the application, in 1873, of the " Differentiating waste water meter," which has since been extensively used for the same purpose in various countries.

In well-equipped waterworks each house service pipe is controlled by a stop-cock accessible from the footpath to the officials of the water authority, and the process of waste detection by this method depends upon the manipulation of such stop-cocks in conjunction with the differentiating meter.

Similar examinations by means of the stop-valves on the mains are also made, and it often happens that the residual leakage (400 gallons an hour in the last case) recorded on the diagram, but not shut off by the house stop - cocks, is mentioned by the inspector as an " outside waste," and localized as having been heard at a stop-cock and traced by sounding the pavement to a particular position under a particular street.

By the adoption of this method great reductions in the quantity of water used and wasted are in some cases effected, and the water tenant pays for the leakage or waste he permits to take place, as well as for the water he uses.

The question of the distribution of water, rightly considered, resolves itself into a question of delivering water to the water tenant, without leakage on the way, and of securing that the fittings employed by the water tenant shall be such as to afford an ample and ready supply at all times of the day and night without leakage and without any unnecessary facilities for waste.

Laid waste by the Persians in the 4th century, Nakhichevan sank into comparative insignificance, but by the 10th century had recovered its prosperity.

Sulphur is also recovered in a very pure state from the "alkali waste" of the Leblanc process, but this "recovered sulphur" is too expensive to be burned for the purpose in question.

The burner gas is introduced at one end, the waste gases issue from the other, the movement of the gases being impelled partly by their own chemical reactions, partly by the draught produced by a chimney (or tower), or by mechanical means.

Since the reactions occur among gases and liquids in the nebulous state, vast spaces have to be provided in which the process may be carried out as completely as possible before the waste gases are allowed to escape into the outer air.

Ultimately the waste gas is drawn off by a chimney, or sometimes by mechanical means.

In Saxon times it had been worth loos., but after being laid waste by the Normans was still of no value in 1086.

Neither were the unfenced and unappropriated common lands - waste, bog, forest and mountain - which all clansmen were free to use promiscuously at will.

Each of these cavities presumably excreted waste products to the exterior by a pore.

Some of these cells produced muscles and connective tissue; others absorbed and removed waste products, iron salts, calcium carbonate and the like, and so were ready to be utilized for the deposition of pigment or of skeletal substance.

The population was absolutely exterminated, and the great Domesday survey, made nearly twenty years later, shows the greater part of Yorkshire as waste.

Like the thrifty steward he was, he saw with growing concern the waste of the national resources and the strain upon commerce, with a public debt swollen to what then seemed the desperate sum of £400,000,000.

At the beginning of the 19th century the greater part of the township was still waste and unenclosed.

Otherwise the chief articles of Constantinople's export trade consist of refuse and waste materials, sheep's wool (called Kassab bashi) and skins from the slaughter-houses (in 1903 about 3,coo,000 skins were exported, mostly to America), horns, hoofs, goat and horse hair, guts, bones, rags, bran, old iron, &c., and finally dogs' excrements, called in trade ` pure,' a Constantinople speciality, which is used in preparing leather for ladies' gloves.

These tubes are shown to excrete nitrogenous waste products similar to uric acid.

As he always kept the useful in his eye in all his disquisitions, he esteemed the employments of men only in proportion to the good they were capable of producing; for which cause he had no great value for the critics who waste their lives in composing words and phrases in coming to the choice of a various reading, in a passage that has after all nothing important in it.

But the Allies had opened the campaign late; they moved slowly; the weather broke, and sickness began to waste their ranks.

As there are no mountains or swamps, there is here very little waste land, and every square foot of the vast wheat fields can be made productive.

The wheat straw is worse than a waste product - it is a great nuisance upon the bonanza farm.

And through the process of waste thus set on foot, they finally dissolved into the aether, and expired " like spinning insects."

They are clever cooks, and for their feasts preparations are sometimes made months in advance, and enormous waste results from them.

A considerable proportion, however, of these larger holdings, especially in Connaught, consist of more or less waste land, which at the best can only be used for raising a few sheep.

F One more table may be given showing the proportional areas under the various kinds of crops, grass, woods and plantations, fallow, bog, waste, &c., over a series of years.

Vasilkov was founded in the 10th century, but laid waste during the Mongol invasion of 1239-42.

Much of what then formed the bottom of this sea consisted until modern times of marshes and waste lands lying in the vicinity of its numerous rivers.

He did not waste time by withdrawing towards the south; he kept in the neighHenry IV.

Half the people in the kingdom were dying of hunger, while the court was insulting poverty by its luxury and waste; and from 1750 onwards political ferment was everywhere manifest.

In the middle of the 19th century the upper part of the district was an impenetrable waste.

Behind that shield of waste the Christian kingdom developed; from the death of Alphonso I.

It is a rugged, rocky, barren waste, scored with khors or wadis, along whose beds there is scanty vegetation.

It announced, he tells us, that in the north, in Finland, there should be born a prince who should lay waste Germany and vanish in 1632.

Section 2 of the act provides that no entire horse being above the age of two years, and not being of the height of 15 " handfulls," shall be put to graze on any common or waste land in certain counties; any one was to be at liberty to seize a horse of unlawful height, and those whose duty it was to measure horses, but who refused to do so, were to be fined 40s.

It has been yearly observed by the public schools of the state, and no state has done more than Nebraska for the forestation of its waste and prairie lands.

The common sunflower (the most conspicuous weed of the state) and allied flowers, which spring up in myriads even in the midst of unbroken prairie wherever this is disturbed, line the roads with yellow bands from horizon to horizon, enclose the broken fields and choke waste places.

Large grain elevators have been built, and a new commercial town has grown up. Besides cereals, which amount to 69% of the whole, the exports consist of petroleum and petroleum waste, oilcake, linseed, timber, bran, millet seed, wool, potash, zinc ore and liquorice, the total annual value ranging between 32 and 54 millions sterling.

They are indeed exceedingly beautiful; and yet the surrounding waste of hills is chiefly a barren repetition of sun-cracked crags and ridges with parched and withered valleys intersecting them, where a trickle of salt water leaves a white and leprous streak amongst the faded tamarisk or the yellow stalks of last season's grass.

Convinced that it was impossible to meet Alexander in a pitched battle, his plan was to lay waste the country and retire into the interior, meanwhile organizing resistance on sea (where the Persians were far superior to the Macedonians) and carrying the war into Greece.

The towns and villages had generally been laid out by contractors or locatores, men not necessarily of noble birth, who were installed as hereditary chief magistrates of the communities, and received numerous encouragements to reclaim waste lands.

It arose rapidly on a strip of waste land, and churches and chapels were built for the workmen, whose numbers soon exceeded P0,000.

The active portion of such a furnace is essentially that above the blast-pipe, the function of the lower part being merely the collection of the reduced metal; the fire may therefore be regarded as burning in an unconfined space, with the waste of a large amount of its heating power.

By continuing the walls of the hearth above the tuyere, into a shaft or stack either of the same or some other section, we obtain a furnace of increased capacity, but with no greater power of consuming fuel, in which the material to be treated can be heated up gradually by loading it into the stack, alternately with layers of fuel, the charge descending regularly to the point of combustion, and absorbing a proportion of the heat of the flame that went to waste in the open fire.

Coarsegrained but very strong firebricks are also made of the waste of china clay works.

Formerly they were allowed to burn to waste at the mouth of a short chimney place above the furnace top, forming a huge body of flame, which was one of the most striking features of the Black Country landscape at night.

It's not science and it's a waste of time but what the hell; it's a rainy afternoon, with nothing else going on.

She spent the better half of the next day too depressed to leave her bed before forcing herself up and parking on the patio in the sun, determined not to waste another day in the dark.

If it weren't for the joy of hearing the usual glowing report, the conference would almost be a waste of time – almost.

What did you do, waste the bastard?

The city probably owns the beach and sovereign immunity makes that angle a waste of time.

The two detectives agreed to keep Baratto at the motel until Monday as neither wanted to waste their weekend checking out his dubious story.

The lecherous bastard didn't waste any time getting Byrne off the payroll and now he's trying to hus­tle his wife before the body even floats in.

Don't waste any more time on it—just get the report fin­ished.

Over the past 20 years waste management in the US has undergone a quiet revolution with increasing amounts of waste being recycled.

Not only have you caused me to waste valuable time by not filling it in, I also feel personally affronted.

This is seen as a possible future way of recycling waste glass and at the same time reducing the demand for quarried aggregates.

The company is also aware that contractors disposing of construction waste require virgin aggregate.

The use of benchtop autoclaves for waste is not recommended because these cannot usually be validated.

They are, however, extremely beneficial in reducing the amount of waste needing to be disposed of.

The wrapper was the largest individual contributor to waste and again beset by numerous small problems.

Also, the feed is mainly composed of food waste, which has a relatively high biogas yield per ton.

Landfill Gas The potential to harvest biogas from landfill waste has been harnessed in sites around the world.

All marine businesses will produce some sort of waste and the majority of recreational boaters will produce waste whilst on the water.

It intends to use the method on 300,000 gallons of liquid waste from atom bomb tests in the 1940s.

In waste places, white dead nettle, violets and coltsfoot may be in flower, attracting early bumblebees and honey bees.

You should have received a brown 5-litre kitchen caddy that can be used to put food waste in.

This also helps to reduce the amount of hazardous metals e.g. cadmium, nickel and mercury, in the waste stream.

In portable electronics, they avoid toxic cadmium and mercury battery waste.

The waste industry is an increasingly capital-intensive sector with adequate returns often being realized only over a long period.

You can recycle cardboard at any of the household waste recycling centers What should I do with excess paper?

For example, Kellogg's has donated some waste cardboard to a local children's play project.

Background on Ricin Ricin is a poison that can be made from the waste (mash) left over from processing castor beans.

This waste contains cellulose a plant material which the body cannot digest.

There was no proper sewerage system in cities and waste was dumped in open large cesspools that were emptied twice a year.

Use of the otherwise waste heat to produce hot water or power an absorption chiller raises the overall efficiency figure to around 80% .

Return to DIAGRAM Disposal of iron residues The waste product from the ion exchange was ferric chloride.

A natural colon cleanser, stimulating the gut to expel waste Citrus fruit, berries Why?

No schools have waste paper collections - why is this?

Other plants, typical of waste ground in general, will also rapidly colonize bare patches on the dunes.

This double-sided bone comb was made from the waste products of the meat industry.

Bywaters is the specialist company in the provision of waste compaction equipment.

Steel wheeled compactors are used on the tipping area for breaking up of the waste and compaction.

Another person is responsible for emptying the bins and feeding much of the non-clinical waste into an on-site compactor.

The installation of a waste compactor saved £ 4000 per year in waste disposal costs.

A landfill compactor is used on the operational areas to level and compact the waste.

Tho broadly comparative; representing recycling, composting, energy recovery, and land filling; the waste they refer to is categorically different.

The Environment Agency charges for the consignment notes to be used to consign special waste.

Where do I get special waste consignment notes from?

And, waste not want not, the Icelanders sensibly stuffed it into five refrigerated containers and sold it to the Japanese.

The presentation will review the 5 papers covering the very recent issues on waste containment.

In the Great Stour catchment, 26 sites of waste disposal have been identified by the Environment Agency as potential groundwater contaminants.

However, this is considered counterproductive to the aim of waste minimisation.

Again often neglected, why waste time and effort if you can avoid fitting crampons!

The waste contains some 20.5 million curies of radioactivity.

But below stairs there is a steely determination to avoid waste.

However installing such a device may be a waste of money if it does not work or has detrimental affects.

You can also use a food digester to dispose of your food waste.

Cattle dung is no longer stored in the home, but is fed directly to the biogas digester along with toilet waste.

Purchase a ' Green Cone ' food digester for disposal of food waste.

Ama is the most common type of toxin, and is the waste product of incomplete digestion.

Once routinely discarded along with the placenta and considered a waste product, it has been used in more than 6,000 transplants worldwide.

This has caused disillusionment in a private sector reluctant to waste bidding costs where lowest price wins at the end of the day.

The plants incase the waste in glass blocks for eventual disposal either in the UK or in one of BNF's customer countries.

This is a terribly short-sighted solution, notwithstanding the problem of radioactive waste disposal.

Please note that some charges may apply for hazardous waste disposal.

The improper disposal of waste is a blight on many communities and is a priority.

A large waste disposal depot is beside the canal about half way down with a useful refuse skip nearby.

What is the potential pollution from landfill waste disposal?

This is in line with Government's desire to take a tougher stance on environmental crime and stresses the seriousness of illegally disposed waste.

Food waste disposers remove waste quickly without the use of knives or blades.

There is no way I'd waste time watching this drivel.

Dump opposed The South Australian state government has re-affirmed its opposition to plans to build a low-level nuclear waste dump opposed The South Australian state government has re-affirmed its opposition to plans to build a low-level nuclear waste dump near Woomera.

The waste dump for the 24,000 hotel rooms in Cancun is one mile away from their homes.

Dumpsite versus landfill dumpsite versus landfill Dumpsite and landfill are two means of waste disposal used in both Thailand and Sri Lanka.

Councils, health boards and quangos will be ordered to cut waste and eliminate duplication.

A ban on the import of foreign radioactive waste and spent fuel 3.4 Britain must stop being a nuclear dustbin for other countries.

If all the aluminum drinks cans sold in the UK were recycled there would be 14 million fewer dustbins of waste each year.

As steel cans are attracted to a magnet they can easily be recovered in large volumes from domestic waste using large electromagnets.

In addition, tailings waste originally deposited within the river channels entering the estuary may also be reworked and redeposited.

Like scripted narrative, it's more immediate to come into an active story, rather than waste time on lengthy exposition.

The guiding motto of intensive farming is ' waste nothing, productivity is everything ' .

I would rather pay the extra cost than waste time trying to track down the obscure program faults that bad memory can cause.

No waste material should be allowed to accumulate anywhere in the premises, at the perimeter fence or on the roofs.

Reduce waste of spending e.g. what happens to old fire engines?

The firm joined forces with rival Viridor in a 50/50 partnership called Lakeside Energy from Waste to build the plant.

Waste timber can contribute to gas generation in landfill and wood treated with preservatives (e.g. formaldehyde) has the potential to produce leachate.

Your garden waste bin (brown) is also collected fortnightly, alternating with your green bin.

Not least it could be used, as could the London canal system, to shift bulk freight, and to transport waste.

Luckily in a digital format we won't need to actually waste tree's for this pure garbage.

At first glance, I thought I would be reading a tale about household garbage or things people had thrown out to waste.

I found a gecko behind my waste bin this morning, that's probably what has been keeping down the mosquitoes.

The point is I waste enough of my money on pointless gewgaws of modern capitalism already.

Worse, the need to supply waste to keep the incinerators going would severely hinder the proper development of the recycling and reuse industries.

Do not allow food scraps from the sink waste to build up over the gully grating.

Society is too disposable yes new cars may be greener but consider greening what you have and cutting waste.

By burying human waste, there is also an increased risk of polluting the groundwater.

These units use limestone to absorb the sulfur which produces gypsum as a waste product.

There is no change to the disposal of waste gypsum products in July 2004.

Technically, if you drop a shackle from above waste height you should put a hacksaw through it.

Waste treatment plants remove some of the most poisonous wastes from sewage, but most treated sewage still contains material harmful to the ocean.

Furthermore nuclear energy is a major source of pollution through environmental waste, which will remain hazardous for years to come.

The fly ash and the bottom ash from incineration (depending on the waste composition) can contain heavy metals.

Twenty-five years ago, the Hounslow temple was nothing more than a couple of scout huts on a piece of waste ground.

Doctors also performed an ileostomy to help relieve pressure in his stomach which involved fitting him with a " bag " to collect waste.

Once built, they are a structural impediment to significantly reduced levels of waste disposal.

This is to protect the impeller from large solids, algae or fish waste, and to stop the fountain head blocking up.

The proportion of waste incinerated with energy recovery has remained roughly constant at just under 9 per cent.

Full Story Could waste be imported to feed the incinerator?

Many people are still very opposed to the building of waste incinerators near their homes.

Doorstep recycling schemes, for example, to counter the need for a new household waste incinerator.

For the moment, the headline indicator on waste will help to show progress.

Chemical waste disposal comes within environmental protection legislation so appropriate steps must be taken to render waste innocuous before disposal.

A skip loaded with waste asbestos insulation material made a 40-mile round trip from Wolverhampton to Telford releasing fibers all the way.

Meanwhile the man responsible for this waste is showing off his towering intellect.

On one side there was waste ground where houses recently destroyed in inter ethnic clashes had not been rebuilt.

It established a waste management hierarchy, which stressed the interdependence of approaches to waste disposal.

If learning is difficult the learner will not want to waste time on tasks which appear irrelevant to their purpose.

Why waste hours drawing piping isometrics back in the office when you can do it instantly on site?

To provide adequate waste processing facilities, taking into account local views. IV.

The average hunt kennel might dispose of 100 to 200 tons of such waste per annum.

Waste products which are not excreted by the kidneys are removed from the blood by the liver.

Its aim is to improve the environment by reducing the amount of waste from electrical and electronic equipment entering landfills.

To dispose of ultimate residual waste by using landfill.

Similarly, there are reports that hazardous waste is not going to hazardous waste landfills.

Promote waste strategies to use rail as the preferred mode for access to larger landfill, incinerator or recycling centers.

Methods of assessing risk to health from exposure to hazards released from waste landfills.

Most business will generate waste and are obliged by law to ensure care in the transport, handling and recovery of this waste.

The residue in the still, called spent lees, is run to waste.

The impetus for these targets has mainly come from European legislation on waste, which is slowing impacting on the UK.

The new waste bin liner at Egremont Road is on order.

The solution contains an industrial waste product derived from pollution scrubber liquor from factory chimneys in the phosphate fertilizer industry.

The environmental impact of the toxic waste is to create a new breed of more savory locust.

They felt no longing for the little village sleeping in the distance beyond the majestic waste of water.

At least 11 nuclear sites are so low-lying they could be drowned or damaged by rising seas, causing radioactive waste to leak.

In the image to the right we are using a cesium vapor magnetometer to locate buried drums and waste on an old landfill site.

However, advice on good waste management practice is available through Hertfordshire Environment department.

Goring reported problems with blocked waste pipes to the Pavilion, which did not have the necessary manhole covers on them.

Heaney may be using it comically - it comes from the bleak opening of T.S. Eliot's modernist poetic manifesto, The Waste Land.

A waste of talent is always tragic, and there can only be hope his next offering can rise above such mediocrity.

Free and copyhold messuages along the edge of the waste where it adjoined the cultivated fields suggest that the road pre-dated the fields.

This hydrogen is the waste end product of the metabolism of other, heterotrophic microorganisms.

This field sales role will involve selling the companies dry waste and hazardous waste disposal services throughout a sales territory covering the west midlands.

What we have stolen from the global south is their environment, where waste materials developed in the West cause untold misery.

You mustn't deliberately mislead the police, give them false information, waste their time or obstruct them.

Incidents involved different kinds of waste, of varying amounts, using different modus operandi, and involving different kinds of offenders.

It does not apply to moist feeds (e.g. brewers grain, silage, liquid molasses, fruit and vegetable waste etc ).

Like a private monopolist, the state regards surplus capacity as a waste, rather than being essential for choice.

Stool Stool (also known as feces) is the solid waste matter that is passed from the body as a bowel movement.

All publications are printed on 100 per cent recycled newsprint, with waste kept to a minimum.