Sentence examples for profligacy the from inspiring English sources

"The problem went beyond simple profligacy," the authors write.

That is a profligacy the world can manage without.The obvious answer is to cut the cables and go wireless.

Despite Dubai's epic profligacy, the tiny local population is well taken care of, thus minimising the possibility of political unrest.

Providing additional bailouts without such budget pressure would only encourage further profligacy, the Germans contend, and it could set off inflation.

Rather than signalling American profligacy, the current-account deficit might simply be the counterpart to foreign thrift.This idea turns much conventional economic wisdom on its head.

We were guilty of budget austerity, not budget profligacy (the tea party Congress of 2010 was much implicated in this fiscal crime).

The colonists were not complaining about the profligacy of the British crown, but about the unfairness of indirect taxes imposed with no redress through parliamentary representation.

Johnson's humiliation of England was aided by the profligacy of the specialist batsmen in the morning session.

In Mr. Ahmadinejad, the public saw a man who repudiated the profligacy of the clerical class, a man who was ascetic, humble and devout.

Instead, it became a symbol of the profligacy of the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), which sank billions into the project and produced a glittering ghost town.

The recession of recent years has seen some of the poorest and most vulnerable members of society paying for the profligacy of the rich and powerful.