Sentence examples for lavish expenditures from inspiring English sources

For all of their lavish expenditures, the Orioles have fizzled faster than a July 4 fireworks show in rain.

The crop failure of 1873, the sultan's lavish expenditures, and the mounting public debt had also heightened public discontent.

China's leader, Xi Jinping, began an anticorruption campaign soon after taking power in November, and party officials have tamed lavish expenditures on banquets, liquor and gifts.

And there have been complaints that the upkeep of the city's many existing parks has been sacrificed for lavish expenditures on a few new gems.

His lavish expenditures, heavy taxation, and incessant peregrinations, however, cost him popularity at home and enhanced the power of the Bohemian nobility.

She's on the phone with Tom saying, like, 'Tom, what do you think about my taupe?' " Asked how so many of her customers are able to make lavish expenditures on designer clothing, Mrs. Lepore answered vaguely, "Business".

The days of balls and lavish expenditure are gone.

Still, the budget crisis hasn't prevented a lavish expenditure on the revenue sports.

Rangers were forced to accept some time ago that their days of lavish expenditure were over.

In a lavish expenditure of public funds, Peña Nieto transformed the building into a luxurious palace where the president, first lady and their six children now live.

Caesar was elected one of the curule aediles for 65 bce, and he celebrated his tenure of this office by unusually lavish expenditure with borrowed money.