Sentence examples for an excessively generous from inspiring English sources

A day later, she gave me an excessively generous gift that she can ill afford.

Larry Broderick, of the Irish Bank Officials Association, said it was an "excessively generous bonus payment", two weeks after the bank announced its plans to cut jobs.

The Dutch economic miracle of the 1990s is long over: although the country has generally done better than its German and French neighbours, it suffers from many of the usual European ills of (sometimes disguised) unemployment, poor schools and an excessively generous welfare state.

One must have an excessively generous acquiescence to the spirit of rules to accept that two of Sen. Davis' strikes were for talking about abortion while filibustering an abortion bill.

Not until the National Audit Office pointed to it as an example of the excessively generous settlement terms being offered to very highly-paid departing senior executives.

With a crucial election in Germany's largest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, barely two months away, Mrs. Merkel would be taking an enormous political risk by pledging support to Greece, which is seen as having a bloated public sector and excessively generous benefits, even by European standards.

In 1980 conservative social critics warned that excessively generous welfare was sustaining a culture of poverty; in the 90's Bill Clinton ended welfare as we knew it.

The new five-year farm bill that could hit the Senate floor as early as this week promises more of the same — excessively generous handouts, combined with a serious erosion of environmental protections.

Technological progress, market-oriented reforms, and excessively generous tax regimes are driving a wedge between rich and poor, magnified by the opportunities created through trade and finance – and by a parallel failure to finance decent public services for the poor.

Now they are under much greater pressure to break even, which is exerting a long-overdue financial discipline on poorly performing trusts.That said, ministers have created a rod for the NHS's back by sanctioning excessively generous pay deals.

"When we were travelling in the south, there were carriages where black people sat but the most important thing was the porters, who gave you twice as much orange juice and four sandwiches and two pillows – they were so excessively generous and kind that it was like a luxury car.