Sentence examples for gaily from inspiring English sources

Indeed, in a deeper irony, euro membership itself partly protects them from the discipline of the financial markets, which might otherwise be helping to impose reforms.This should worry those who have been gaily celebrating the ECB's tenth birthday, for two reasons.

In his campaign for re-election the president gaily promised all things to all voters.

As the youngest of the six Mitford girls, she gaily called herself the slowest and dimmest.

Like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, Australian engineers gaily pockmarked the basin with dams, weirs and locks, with little thought for what that would do downstream.By the 1990s the drawbacks were evident.

(Never mind that only six months ago Ms Stone and others had gaily clapped along to Vladimir Putin's gruesome rendition of Blueberry Hill in St Petersburg).

Their homes have been blown to bits, hulks of burnt-out tanks litter the streets and red triangles flutter gaily all over the town warning of unexploded bombs and landmines.But the civilians must get home soon, to plant crops before the rains start, which is usually in May.

THE good times are over for Britain's pension-fund managers, when companies gaily invested their pension provisions in equities and rarely questioned their fund manager's performance.

Waving gaily behind the windows, they drive away to plant new churches in the hills, and perhaps some schools.

Just before the financial crisis America's Congress was gaily cutting taxes for the highest earners, and Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, said he did not care how much soccer players earned so long as he could reduce child poverty.

The country's communist rulers gaily draped public buildings with hammer-and-sickle flags.

But American financiers have made the same silly assumptions, gaily advancing money to "ninjas": people with no income, no job and no assets.