Sentence examples for generous accounts from inspiring English sources

Even the most generous accounts of Al Qaeda's capacity posited a single stolen nuclear weapon somehow spirited across a border and detonated.

But states are allowed a more generous accounting treatment than private-sector employers.

And the value of banks' assets is being sheltered by central banks' asset purchases and more generous accounting rules.

If there is one issue on which Silicon Valley executives will brook little dissent, it is the generous accounting rules for stock options.

Almost without exception, the cost of acquiring and defending a colonial empire greatly exceeded even a generous accounting of its benefits.

In the most generous account, Seneca might even be regarded as a kind of Stoic martyr: to prevent worse from happening to Rome, he stayed on with Nero and, by doing so, sacrificed his good name.

Dai Xianglung, the central bank governor, said in a recent speech that even under the most generous accounting rules, one-quarter of the loans left on the books of the country's banks were nonperforming.

A commission set up by the previous mayor, Richard Daley, found that, even using the most generous accounting method, in 2009 the city's four largest schemes were just 43% funded, with a combined deficit of $14.6 billion.In February the state borrowed $3.7 billion from the bond markets just to fund its pension contribution.

And that's a generous accounting.

By spending more than $45 trillion in the next 10 years, the most generous accounting would assume $6.7 trillion would be added to the federal deficit, bringing debt-to-GDP ratio who a crushing 76.5percentt.

Publishing houses and literary agencies say goodbye to limousines and generous expense accounts.