Sentence examples for lavish improvements from inspiring English sources
In 2014 an independent inquiry found that Zuma got the government to pay for lavish improvements to his home at Nkandla, in KwaZulu Natal.
He said the agency lavished capital improvement and marketing resources on Newark International Airport at the expense of Kennedy and the city's other major airport, La Guardia, stunting city revenues under the lease.
Do it in your home town, too.'" He says that while the villagers around Gbadolite were delighted with Mobutu's improvements, the lavish spending was much less popular with the rest of the population of the DRC: "The people were mad about it.
In a practice that ended up costing British taxpayers millions, lawmakers like Ms. Smith designated modest pieds-à-terre in London as their "main homes," even if they spent only a day or two there a week, so as to shift to taxpayers the costs of lavish reimbursements for mortgages and improvements on family-owned properties in their districts.
Immediately after the Challenger, Congress lavished hundreds of millions on shuttle improvements -- only to be criticized for everything from $30 million shuttle toilets to layer upon layer of quality controls.
This week's improvements were partly stirred by the latest lavish intervention from the Federal Reserve.
More and more top players seem likely to follow Hulk and Witsel to Russia in the years ahead, mainly, of course, because only a few clubs elsewhere can compete with the lavish salaries on offer but also because of the huge infrastructure improvements in the country ahead of the 2018 World Cup.
One of the most disappointing parts of this week's budget deal is its disparate treatment of a lavish estate tax break for the nation's wealthiest heirs as compared to several tax credit improvements for low-income working families.
News of the improvements came the day after Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, had lavished praise on the performance of England's primaries, in contrast to the "stalled" progress of state secondaries.
