Sentence examples for provident with from inspiring English sources

Combined with the banks' reluctance to lend to anyone not classified as a "prime" credit risk, it leaves many poorer people with few options other than Provident, with its huge interest rates, or even less palatable choices such as loan sharks.

His provident mother, with three boys and two girls, set about reorganizing the family's precarious resources.

Kent went to the top of the South Conference of the Friends Provident Trophy with a comfortable win over Sussex here yesterday and are now favourites to progress from their group to the semi-finals of the competition.

Thorp, 37, joined Durham in 2004 and has since won two titles and a Friends Provident Trophy with the county.

The deal, which is the largest Series B for a Thai startup to date, is co-led by Indonesia's Provident Capital Partners with participation from PE firm Lombard Investments.

Crook said that along with other companies, Provident was battling with the tricky economic situation and also tightening its lending criteria.

Were we provident, even stinting, with our words — "Take care, my boy," "See you, Papa"?

Mr Hayes said: "The key problem with Provident is that they have a near monopoly on door-to-door lending and they are completely and utterly embedded in Britain's most deprived communities where they are charging huge interest rates, as much as 800 times the Bank of England base rate.

The financial sector was in focus yesterday, with life insurer Friends Provident and Barclays providing the main excitement on a rising FTSE 100.

Perhaps the most difficult problem connected with the notion of providence is the existence of evil: humankind has perennially been faced with the question of how to reconcile the idea of a provident God or gods with the evident existence of evil in the world (see theodicy; evil, problem of).

After six years working with Friends Provident and then Prudential he set up his own company.