Sentence examples for take on excess from inspiring English sources

As a backup, roads were built below grade and designed to take on excess water when storm drains overflow.

After the 2008 global financial crisis, German lawmakers amended their Constitution to ensure that future governments would not take on excess debt of more than 0.35percentt of gross domestic product.

Designers have increasingly been looking to the natural landscape to mitigate the impact of flooding on developed areas, freeing up regions such as marshlands to take on excess water temporarily and so lessen a tendency to continue raising the height of levees as an exclusive means of enhancing protection.

Either way, the mess leaves many consenting adults in the lurch, wondering how they'll do business without taking on excess risk in one of America's more dangerous black markets.

The bank has been raising rates as a red-hot housing market showed signs of topping out, and as consumers showed signs of taking on excess debt.

Personally, I'm more of a Minskyite than a Stiglitzian, although not 100%; although things like subprime lending were, I believe, mainly about forgetting the past, Elizabeth Warren's old work on bankruptcy pretty clearly shows that at least some families took on excess debt as a result of rising inequality.

In remarks to Deutsche Bank in October 2014, the candidate drew inspiration from former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt for taking on "excesses in the economy" while also standing against "excesses in politics" in his signature Square Deal domestic policy, which sought to balance public and private interests.

Watch the clip on YouTube SPOILER WARNING: This is the final scene in Peter Greenaway's thoroughly OTT metaphorical take on capitalist excess.

Assuming the Pro has a regular stream of work across platforms, has high ratings and has remained in compliance with all work guidelines, the Pro is ready to expand his or her business and hire additional workers to take on any excess demand.

He also vowed to take on the more egregious excesses of corporate agribusiness practices - especially the anti-competitive measures that drive small and medium-sized livestock and poultry operations out of business, leaving the playing field wide open to corporate-controlled "Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) - better known as factory farms.

Sometimes, after the beautiful monotonies of Hemingway, one longs to bathe in impurities — to take on the luxuries and rough excesses of a more abundant style.