Sentence examples for Parsimonious from inspiring English sources

But the publication today of another tranche of management expenses suggests its most senior executives are increasingly parsimonious, at least when it comes to claiming back taxis, hotels and meals.

His methodology, outlined in The Methodology of Positive Economics in Essays in Positive Economics (1953), was that you should use the method that works best, that best explains and predicts final outcomes in terms of the most parsimonious set of explanatory variables.

At Housesteads, a couple of miles to the west, we wandered about the ruined settlement - marvelling at the luxurious expansiveness and underfloor heating of the commandant's house and the parsimonious lodgings allotted to the footsoldiers - until the fading light drove us back along the wall to the welcoming lights of Grindon hostel.

Ebookers (ebookers.com) has a three-night break at the five-star Vienna Hilton from £318pp, including breakfast and flights from Heathrow 6. LUDLOW One of the best things about Valentine's Day is that it's a good excuse for a glass or three and a slap-up supper after a parsimonious January.

There was only one occasion in the opening 45 minutes when the most parsimonious defence in Spanish football looked vulnerable and that was the chance that fell to Bale, after Tiago's sloppy pass, in the 32nd minute.

Most of the Labour manifesto proposals that relate to social security have already been announced: the parsimonious and economically senseless two-year cap on child benefit (there are no ancillary plans to make children cheaper to run, for the period) has already been announced by Ed Balls.

And any parsimonious party organiser who, like me, experiments to see whether a small plastic bag containing a packet of Love Hearts and a 25p stripy eraser and matching pencil will do, soon discovers that it won't, at all.

In comparison, the 3% growth in American consumption looks almost parsimonious.

At the operating level, Mr Kozlowski remained thoroughly parsimonious.

Bobby Jindal's parsimonious pitch Of dogs and democracy ReprintsMichael Carvin, the challengers' lawyer, called the case "straightforward".

Yet the big brewers have been parsimonious in their marketing budgets, typically investing just 10% or so of their revenues, compared with around 15% at companies like Unilever and Procter & Gamble.