Sentence examples for irrational spending from inspiring English sources

A nation held hostage by the failings of its political class and burdened by many years of irrational spending has invested its hopes in a former vice president of the European Central Bank and longtime governor of Greece's central bank.

His great contribution, apparently without real coaching or motivational qualities, has been to persevere with a style based on rhythm and movement and passing skills — and to resist the irrational spending of rival clubs that pay fees and salaries beyond their income.

So, not only are advertisers paying more but they're getting less — irrational spending at its best.

When it comes to competition, you can a lot of irrational spending during good times, with excessive hires — those go away during down times.

In some cases, huge life changes beyond retirement may produce irrational spending.

The imbalance between the sums spent on incarceration and rehabilitation is one of the most glaring examples of irrational government spending.

This practice can be explained, however, by assuming that credit-card borrowing is the result of (largely) irrational impulse spending, while the retirement saving deductions are assumed to have been set up by the cool-headed, rational side of the consumer's nature.

He said that you have to love what you do, or it would be irrational to spend so much energy doing it.

The paper identified several theories which could explain why people appear to make irrational decisions when spending with plastic.

But as the airwaves across the New York City region have filled up in recent days and nights with nearly nonstop political commercials, it has not been an irrational blur of spending, at least when it comes to the Democrats.

"People were making irrational decisions about spending time at the coast, or attributing starfish deaths to Fukushima," he says.