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A democratic restoration cannot restore Athens’s squandered power or forestall its eventual surrender.

“I did. But only because I know you intended to squander the Widow Ashton’s fortune on your ill-conceived business plans.”

Alison Holmes, the director of the Fleming Initiative, said antibiotics were "one of the greatest health resources that has been squandered" and we should all think of how much we owe to antibiotics.

What might Iran have achieved—in water and otherwise—had it used the billions that it has squandered on harmful water infrastructure, regional mayhem and pursuit of nuclear weapons to serve the Iranian people instead?

But Scotland squandered a number of good chances, with McTominay and George Hirst going agonisingly close and Denmark found a late equaliser.