Sentence examples for it was profligacy from inspiring English sources

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It was profligacy which cost them a victory.

It was profligacy, a lack of "cutting edge" according to Puel, which saw them survive.

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This month a handful of protesters stormed a hotel in the centre of Harare protesting against the vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko's stay there since December 2014, saying this was profligacy by a government that claims it has no money.

Lax defending was a major theme of the match, as was profligacy in front of goal.

But he was at his strongest when he was defending the last government's record, rebutting the charge that it was Labour profligacy that caused the current woes.

But, while the four all-rounders bowled 14 overs with combined figures of 6-88, it was the profligacy of Australia's frontline bowlers that proved decisive, with Agar, Adam Zampa and Nathan Coulter-Nile's six wicketless overs costing 54 runs.

After his defeat in 2010, he allowed the coalition and its allies to trash his reputation, to pretend it was Brown's profligacy, rather than a global financial crash, that had ballooned the deficit.

Belgium's main problem recently has been profligacy.

Yet we have created a transport system whose design principle is profligacy.

The group, which campaigns for better use of public funds, said last week that: "Spending £250,000 on a whim because [the BBC] wants a better view is profligacy of the highest degree".

While the excess is profligacy, deficiency in respect of pleasures almost never occurs.

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