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24 Apr 2008, 10:30 am
And anyway, a lot of the idealist value of those documents on light weapons and small arms - the value that might have existed to deal with a government importing arms to mow down its own citizens in order to override an election it lost - has been frittered away because the global civil society activist community thought it more important to use what started as a generally laudable campaign against promiscuous shipment of small arms into various conflicts in Africa, and into the hands of… [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 8:12 pm
Yes… I think I can do this without too much trouble, even if it does take me away from frittering my evenings away enjoyably - Twittering. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 1:25 pm by Kyle Hulehan
Sixty-two percent of his wealth frittered—not to say twittered—away. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 6:38 am by Michael Geist
Quite the opposite, in fact, as copyright collectives have frittered away millions of dollars in litigation costs that could have been allocated to publishers and authors. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 11:38 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  I acknowledged that the Brits have a significant head start on the Americans in terms of frittering away their many advantages, having begun their decline in 1945 (at the very latest) and showing no signs of rejuvenation at any time since then. [read post]
29 Apr 2007, 8:46 am
A lot of money can be frittered away in the divorce process. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 9:09 am by Dan Harris
I see even this micro deal being frittered away either in its entirety or at the edges. [read post]
21 May 2012, 5:30 am by Susan Cartier Liebel
Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD which highlights the reality that those who work alone fritter away huge amounts of time and usually this is on the internet or the phone. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 7:08 am by Lovechilde
” Those of us who have spent our lives working to strengthen worker protections, drug and food safety, and pollution control are in a state of disbelief as we watch this potentially transformative president fritter away the opportunity to at last put robust safeguards in place. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 9:28 pm by Jeff Gamso
  The estate is frittered away while the relatives squabble about how to divide it.And lawyers commit malpractice.Civil law, that is, carries its own burdens. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 10:41 am
The Law Reform Commission of Ireland found "studies recently conducted by the Law Commission and the Disability Management Group of the University of Edinburgh have shown that the risk of dissipation is less than was widely believed and that those awarded very high damages are least likely to fritter away their compensation". [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 11:59 am
It is truly a waste when any of the most fortunate writers on Earth fritters away his or her precious space with trivialities or, worse, sloppy reasoning. [read post]
14 May 2010, 6:54 am by Susan Brenner
Hall frittered away all of the Axiom Trust's assets. . . . [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 11:26 am
That is, we give them free tuition, but we allow them -- actually, we all but require them -- to fritter that valuable asset away. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 5:58 pm by karp
Another friend commented that Bing frittered away money “as if there are no consequences to losing it. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 12:35 am
Customer service was cut back, replaced by robots in other countries and voicemail menus that played on for longer than one of my MauledAgain posts, while hapless consumers frittered away time "on hold" waiting for the sole remaining customer service employee to get to their calls. [read post]
17 Jun 2018, 4:00 am by Charlie Dunlap
The lack of scrutiny one would hope that Times journalists would give such a piece fritters away the reputation for objectivity I would expect the paper wants, and it feeds perceptions that the media in general is biased against the military. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 8:12 am by Brian Zupruk
Taken holistically, the calculus suggests breaching customary law or either treaty will produce only negative long-term outcomes for the violating state by degrading international legal norms that provide immense economic benefits to abiding states, frittering away diplomatic capital, and creating rhetorical or pretextual cover for the misdeeds of less scrupulous state actors. [read post]