Sentence examples for profligate habits from inspiring English sources
He is certainly correct about the recent shock of learning how close our profligate habits of consumption have brought us to the limits of the world's resources.
If Asians lost their appetite for dollar assets, the greenback would fall even faster, and American bond yields would rise.Indeed, from this point of view, the Asian economies are supporting America's profligate habits.
But foreigners will still find it hard to make deals work in a country that combines nationalism with Japanese-style corporate hierarchies and dynastic ownership.The government is wooing foreigners in part because it thinks South Korean firms need western managerial skills and accounting standards if they are to shed the profligate habits that got the country in trouble.
As long as they have jobs, consumers are willing to keep up profligate spending habits even if they have to borrow money to do so.
QUESTION FROM ADAM DANIEL MEZEI @GTOWNA: How is the government's PR campaign to get citizens to cease with their profligate consuming habits squaring with the kinds of ads you're hearing on the radio these days, Evan?
It is the present government's profligate spending habits, its inability to control a growing budget deficit, and its failure either to continue or initiate badly needed financial and social-policy reforms that largely contribute to Poland's present difficulties.
The governor of Tokyo, Yoichi Masuzoe, has resigned following revelations about his profligate spending habits in a scandal that risked damaging the political fortunes of the country's prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
The data trove includes flight logs from the Falcon jet used by Cope and Bias and evidence of their profligate spending habits.
Last fall, for instance, we worked with Intuit subsidiary Quicken, issuing a report on Mustached Americans being in greater financial need due to their profligate spending habits on ladies, leather pants and teeth whitening.
In addition, our profligate spending habits have caused record budget deficits and even caused our healing trade deficit to reverse course and head higher.
Roguishly witty, profligate of habit and relentlessly self-scrutinizing, Mr. Gray was the embodiment of a literary stereotype, a grimly funny personality, both deeply creative and determinedly self-destructive, a man who lived hard and wrote prolifically, if often in anguish.
