Sentence examples for profligate promises from inspiring English sources

More and more people feel the gap between the profligate promises of individual freedom and sovereignty, and the incapacity of their political and economic organisations to realise them.

"John Kerry's profligate spending promises will be an issue this fall," Mr. Schmidt said.

The main problem is not that the new German government, suddenly keen to be less profligate than its election-campaign promises last year suggested, aims to chop 15% or nearly DM500,000 from the festival's annual subsidy.

The markets and the country will welcome the promises of the reformed profligate son.

But a governor who promises to tame a profligate and dysfunctional system may well have anticipated that he would find himself politically isolated, and that the isolation would burnish his crusading public image.

As I wrote at the time: "There's no quagmire, no covert agenda to control oil reserves and gain a strategic foothold, only Noble Purpose and Kerry's promise to be as profligate a spender of the lives of America's youth as Bush.

The restaurant's unprepossessing room and unprepossessing locale promise mere proficiency but deliver profligate flavor and spirited service.

In its relentless embrace of deficit spending, the G.O.P. -- reborn as the Grand Old Profligates -- has clamored for serial tax cuts, cashing in promises of budget surpluses for an ever rising tide of red ink.

I met a Wall Street cynic who had grumbled for years about the overextended consumer, the negative savings rate, and a profligate government that some day would be unable to make good on its promises.

But consider a case in which the person to whom a promise is made does not expect the one making the promise to comply (Scanlon calls this the case of the Profligate Pal).

Before presenting his first budget proposal on Tuesday, Gov. James E. McGreevey promised to end the state's bad fiscal habits of excessive borrowing, profligate spending and reliance on one-time measures to increase state revenues.