Sentence examples for How profligate from inspiring English sources

How profligate is New York for it to have ignored such delectable nearby morsels of land?

THERE has been an ongoing debate over just how profligate some euro-zone economies were prior to the present debt crisis.

ATLANTA, Nov. 14 — A day after Gov. Sonny Perdue asked God to forgive Georgia for being wasteful with its water, county officials in the wealthy suburbs northeast of Atlanta confirmed Wednesday just how profligate one consumer had been.

Prosecutors introduced the video of the party which included body builders dressed in skin-toned Speedos, models dressed as gladiators, dancing nymphs, ice sculptures, yacht rides and a scavenger hunt to show just how profligate Kozlowski was with shareholder money.

No matter how profligate the the United States has been in the past, we as a country, are beginning to get religion about global warming, recycling and eating locally grown food.

As for subtlety, or lack thereof, listen to the words of elder statesman and Nobel Prize winner James Watson, who recently sounded off on how profligate spending on headline-grabbing genomics programs distorts cancer research priorities to the detriment of alternative approaches.

How less profligate would the decade have been had the ruinous trade for Antonio McDyess (thank you very much, Scott Layden) never been made and the paint had been patrolled by Camby and Nene?

The case also shows how the profligate lifestyles of leaders' relatives and friends can weigh heavily in backstage power tussles, especially as party skulduggery plays out under the intensifying glare of media.

He is certainly correct about the recent shock of learning how close our profligate habits of consumption have brought us to the limits of the world's resources.

How is a profligate America to cut borrowing, balance the budget and ensure that its billowing deficit will not place an unbearable burden on future generations?The tea-partiers do not just have less selfish motives than the pampered French.

The problem for Puissant was how to frame this profligate display.