Sentence examples for public excess from inspiring English sources

For New Yorkers, the episode in which Mr. Giuliani announced on television that he was leaving his wife (and his wife responded by insinuating at her own news conference that Mr. Giuliani had been having an affair with his press secretary) was the latest chapter in a rich history of mayors prone to private and public excess.

Yet lives of public excess would not bring happiness.

This, of course, in large measure reflects his public excesses.

Pricing, policing, and stricter licensing terms have all demonstrated themselves to be useful tools for helping to curb the worst public excesses of alcohol consumption.

From Turner's viewpoint, public sector excesses have only added to his central problem - how to persuade workers in the private sector to carry on working longer and without defined retirement benefits.

William R. Rhodes wrote in Forbes this week: "What is urgently needed is a new balance within Europe between essential continuing efforts in most countries to curb public spending excesses, and securing fresh growth momentum".

By the way, apparently nobody told him that Spain had low government debt and a budget surplus on the eve of the crisis; it's in trouble thanks to private-sector, not public-sector, excess.

It encourages excess public spending, and distorts the way it is used, shifting it from health and education towards less efficient public projects.

Neither party reflects public disgust with excess and waste in all forms-public, private and even personal.

He said he had returned to the board all public money in excess of that spending limit.

"In egregious cases, public outrage at excess or business failings may risk a company's social licence to operate".