Sentence examples for careless spending from inspiring English sources

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His second wife was less inclined than the first to restrain her husband's propensities for high living and careless spending.

It sounds like egregious investments and careless spending on the companys' part were some of the things that categorised the first bubble.

At the root of the issue is a 1953 state law, often called the "bidding act," intended to protect taxpayers from careless spending and graft.

That kind of careless spending of tax dollars is not change, my friends: It is business as usual in Washington, and it's all a part of the same wasteful and corrupting system that we need to end.

The very things that Carrie Bradshaw and clan are admired for – careless love and careless spending – were enough to ruin a woman at the turn of the previous century, as shown in Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth, one of a selection of Penguin Classics recently reprinted in partnership with the charitable (Product RED brand.

It might be just as tempting to give in to careless spending, impulsive buying and paycheck-to-paycheck living, but at least you know better now.

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Picanyol argued the city's newly elected government was scapegoating the centre for years of careless government spending.

As a young man, Henry Fane had been described as "very idle and careless and spending much time in the country".

That's why the second observation about the rich, that they did not get where they are by being careless with their spending, holds true.

Whenever wealthy folk are discussed, two observations are commonly made: one is that they are different; the other is that they did not amass more money than the rest of us by being careless with their spending.

If these so called Facebook friends (of mine) are not hit men hired to kill me then I couldn't careless how they spent a second of their time, unless (at that moment) they were aiming at me.

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