The common people thought the extravagances excessive yet loved their young king, whom they called Charles le bien-aimé (the well-beloved).
The second reason cited was Greece's alleged extravagance and excessive deficits.
This will try to analyse all risks, including economic, to the country's security, be they terrorist bombs and poisoned water or forest fires and stockmarket crashes.Arguably, all this spending is excessive Star Wars-like extravagance at the taxpayer's expense.
Pescall's extravagances included an "excessive number of hounds", which were known to roam freely "fouling church, chapter house and cloister"; whilst the Bishop complained the boys in the almonry were being improperly educated.
But the extravagance of the simile is not excessive: we have the sense of travelling out of the strictly referential (clearly, colonnades are not really like elephants) into the vaguer, grander domain of historical parallel.
Officials have been ordered to cut out excessive spending on banquets, luxury goods, motorcades and other extravagances.
Last year, public anger in China over graft and the excessive lifestyles of officials prompted President Xi Jinping to ban government extravagance.
The National Association of Pension Funds, which controls a fifth of the stockmarket, criticised executives at Barclays Bank, Reuters and Shell, among others, for their excessive pay packets and urged members to put pressure on companies to curtail such extravagances.See article: We're (still) in the moneyGrundig, a German electronics company famed for its radios and TV sets, filed for bankruptcy.
West Virginia's reforms were approved in March after a study showed that the state was losing thousands of jobs as businesses went elsewhere to avoid its courts' excessive generosity to plaintiffs.America's senior courts also seem to be taking a tougher line on some lower courts' extravagance.
