Sentence examples for extravagant public from inspiring English sources

Hill farming is sustained only with extravagant public subsidies.

All levels of the governance system remain vulnerable to corruption, mismanagement and extravagant public investment.

As it was, the toll of his bad choices was exacerbated by exploitative dealers and collectors, corrupt companions, and the inevitable backlash that follows extravagant public success.

Unable to resist, the emperor issued a safe-conduct, and Luther traveled to Worms, treated on his way to such extravagant public acclaim that he must have felt like a national hero.

Having spent the summer calling the other a deluded incompetent, winner and loser would stage an extravagant public reconciliation and resume their struggle against the monstrousness of Blairism.In the end, William Hague's last decision as Tory leader was to cancel the big show ostensibly out of respect for America, but also to avoid the inevitable bathos.

For Oscar Wilde, with his extravagant public sufferings and real physical abasement, for the scholar F. O. Matthiessen, with his tortured closetedness and eventual suicide, Toibin -- who has acknowledged what he feels is the "abiding fascination of sadness... and, indeed, tragedy" -- clearly has great sympathy in his essays.

Who supports the people who pay the price of those extravagant public-union benefits?Spencer M. Higley Edmonds, WashingtonSIR – Life expectancy has not increased equally across the socioeconomic divide.

Only thing you can point to as extravagant is the public art.

For his part, her husband gave her romantic devotion, never afraid to express it in extravagant terms in public, accompanied by a kiss or Shakespearean love sonnet.

There were extravagant, spontaneous displays of public grief.

Furthermore, the extravagant luxury and lavish public outlays of the local petty courts rendered Al-Andalus ripe for the foreign intervention that came when the Castilians occupied Toledo (1085), the key to the Meseta Central and to the entire peninsula.