Sentence examples for public excesses from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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".

First, the use of excess mortality (how many are expected to die) is intuitively more plausible and comprehensive for the public than "excess relative rate" which affects excess mortality in combination with additional factors.

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.

Finally, excess in government is no greater burden on the public than are excesses in monopolistic business.

Britons know the public sector has excesses and that some cuts will not be the end of the world.

With the important exception of the public debt, the excesses from that period now look to be gone.