Sentence examples for profligacy over from inspiring English sources

Politicians' fiscal profligacy over the years has contributed.

At the same time, the Americans were aghast at what they viewed as German profligacy over expenses.

An 87th-minute effort from Seyi Olofinjana brought a 1-0 victory but Michael Kightly and Andy Keogh missed other chances and their manager, Mick McCarthy, lamented his side's profligacy over the season.

He has also committed himself to budgetary rules intended to help him resist profligacy: over the cycle, tax revenues must be at least as great as "current" expenditure, and the ratio of net public-sector debt to GDP must be no more than 40%.Even so, at first blush Mr Brown may seem to have plenty of room for manoeuvre.

Instead Hodgson chose to bring a quintet of strikers – of whom the most experienced has since been converted into a midfielder – to France and, while Daniel Sturridge and Jamie Vardy turned the game against Wales, the profligacy over the three games has still left the management baffled as to who should be considered first choice.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has vowed that the days of profligacy are over and that the Pentagon will reform its bloated and often corrupt acquisition process.

However, the Bank of England warns against assuming that British households have chosen parsimony over profligacy.

Cosimo's family, too, were the victims of Marguerite Louise's caprices: she argued with the Grand Duchess Vittoria over precedence, Grand Duke Ferdinando over her profligacy.

The scary thing about that option though, while temporarily deeply fulfilling perhaps to Greeks angry over German lecturing and to Germans angry over Greek profligacy, is that no one knows what the ripple effects will be.

– or you can see them as evidence of over-production and profligacy.

Such profligacy for the PIGS is over.