Unfortunately, Peter's profligate expenditures steadily eroded most of the value of this otherwise admirable currency.
The military's profligate expenditures on behalf of the President's wife were a public relations disaster.
While all sorts of practices are cited as threats to sustainability (political corruption, social inequality, the arms race, profligate government expenditure), environmental issues remain at the heart of the discussion.
Moreover, the government had muzzled the press and ignored virtually all constitutional constraints; and administration expenditures had gone unchecked, as profligate spending on the regime's pet projects caused more severe economic dislocation.
We must, Obama exclaims, remain exceptional: Exceptional, that is, in our profligate consumption of the world's resources and our prodigious expenditures on weaponry.
Mr. Abe's critics, however, warn that the central bank will become a printing press for profligate government spending — expenditures that carry great risks for a country whose public debt is already twice the size of its economy.
Nor, he added, is profligate spending necessarily to blame.
Increased demand, the increased supply of money from the silver of the New World, and profligate military expenditures fueled high inflation.
While numerous practices are cited as threats to sustainability, such as political corruption, social inequality, the arms race, and profligate government expenditures, environmental issues remain at the heart of the discussion.
Their supporters are expecting them to cut profligate government spending.
