Sentence examples for dangerous excess from inspiring English sources

During the 1960s, indeed, some seriously argued that technology and automation would soon create a dangerous excess of leisure.

The Socialists said the actions of police and bystanders towards Siam in Cannes showed a "particularly dangerous" excess and were "incompatible with the law".

The counter-cultural left combined genuine liberation with dangerous excess, while the traditionalist right mixed reaction with a desire to preserve some precious institutions, such as marriage.

Greed outran fear all the way to dangerous excess in gold, Latin American debt, Internet IPOs, Japanese equities and oil at $147 a barrel.

'Apart from the mayors, not many bothered and, if you did, you'd earned that bowl of stew – and a skinful.' As a pair of sprightly Isaban octogenarians later confirm, those charged with ferrying the feast up the mountain often felt entitled to refresh themselves to dangerous excess en route.

The 1923 Almanac for Italian Women declared that the purpose of sport was not to "force the body to dangerous excesses and ridiculous exaggerations".

I don't profess to understand the worries some of my financial sources express about dangerous excesses in the convertible bond market, "swaptions" and ever-narrowing derivatives.

Their historic roots go back to the beginning of the 20th century and the passage of legislation protecting children, women, workers and consumers from the dangerous excesses in business practices in the era of the robber baron.

We need a rebalancing of power that continues to release the creative energy of the private sector, but within a framework of prudential public controls that restrains the dangerous excesses.

"Can central banks protect us from the excesses of the profit system and lead the economy?" Chapter 21 says yes. ("Argument 1: "Without a central bank, there would be no way to control the dangerous excesses of the banking system and otherwise keep the economy on a steady course").

"In peaceful and prosperous times," he said, irony is a way of "keeping the passions in hibernation when there is not much for them to live on, but another kind of irony can also work to keep dangerous excesses of passion and self-righteousness and extreme conviction at bay".