Sentence examples for over profligate from inspiring English sources

But that is precisely what happened on Monday when members of both parties on a Congressional oversight committee grilled the former head and other officials from the General Services Administration over profligate spending at a conference held in Las Vegas in 2010, which included taxpayer-financed hotel suites, tuxedos and Italian wine, and an appearance by a clown.

It has quietly consolidated its long-standing conservative influence over its profligate neighbor Dubai, according to Western diplomats and analysts.

Sukarno still turned to Moscow for support and gave himself over to profligate personal behaviour and foreign adventures, most notably an attempted attack on Malaysia in 1963.

But the harsh fact is that on those two promises, rather than succeeding where his Labour predecessor failed, there is a real danger that Mr Cameron will instead simply fail differently.Where Labour presided over a profligate boom and bust, the risk now is of economic stagnation.

THERE has been an ongoing debate over just how profligate some euro-zone economies were prior to the present debt crisis.

According to early executives and employees, Mr. Bezos was determined almost from the moment he founded Amazon in 1994 to resist the forces he thought sapped businesses over time — bureaucracy, profligate spending, lack of rigor.

This week alone, American companies reported as many as 65,000 job cuts, and public anger is rising over reports of profligate spending by banks and investment firms that are receiving help from the $700 billion bailout fund.

The audience cheered wildly and gave a standing ovation to one American who did a lap of honour waving the Iranian flag.In this section Hung over South Africa's profligate provinces A good arm-lock Miracle in trouble High in the Gulf ReprintsOnly a handful attended the anti-American rally, and it was over in 30 minutes.

An unusually profligate final over from Lasith Malinga gave New Zealand a win in the tournament opener, and it then needed an extremely timid performance from Zimbabwe's batsmen to ensure that Kumar Sangakkara's side weren't bounced out thanks to Duckworth-Lewis.

Despite the drought exacerbating the water crisis, which is also the product of a growing urban population combined with poor water management, pollution, and profligate waste over many years, São Paulo is in the middle of its rainy season.

So we applaud Defense Secretary Robert Gates for making clear last week that those profligate days are over.