Sentence examples for lavish provision from inspiring English sources

Education was supported by charitable endowments and by lavish provision for the students in a madrasa or in a monastery.

AFSCME points out that, for all the adverse publicity about lavish provision, the average public-sector pensioner in Illinois receives only $22,000 a year.

The ingenious planning and spatial complexity of the Opéra owe much to Beaux-Arts methods of organization, but the scale is new, as is the lavish provision of circulation space, including the great staircase and numerous richly decorated galleries, foyers, and corridors).

While this outcome is easily understood in terms of rent seeking behavior, it is suggested that organizations such as the IOC and FIFA could better serve their constituents by diverting competition away from lavish provision of facilities towards goals that would raise participation in sports.

It is not clear why the design was subsequently enlarged to become a smaller version of the Merchant Navy class 4-6-2 as the likely traffic requirement did not warrant such lavish provision, but the incorporation of components from that class enabled standardisation during wartime production difficulties.

Our plot hunger can be measured by the current provision of lavish, plot-heavy TV drama.

The Serbs have made lavish use of that provision to deprive the central government of what little scope for action the constitution allows it.The real powers in the land are its two constituent "entities": an ethnically cleansed Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation, each of which has its own army.

The divide between state schools' mostly cramped sporting provision and the lavish playing fields of Britain's public schools – attended by most of Crouch's government colleagues – has only become more pronounced.

President Obama said the "lavish bonuses" highlighted the need for provisions in the recently enacted financial regulatory reform that address executive compensation, such as giving shareholders a nonbinding say-on-pay vote.

But in fact, corporations are able to exploit provisions in the law governing nonprofit groups to make lavish political contributions without disclosure, making it easier than ever for cash to subvert our political system.

The Natufians lived in caves, as did their Paleolithic predecessors, but there is a possibility that they were experimenting in agriculture, for the importance to them of the collection of grain is shown by the artistic care that they lavished on the carving of the hafts of their sickles and in the provision of utensils for grinding.