Sentence examples for this present profligacy from inspiring English sources

Again, the rules did nothing to prevent this: present profligacy was justified by assuming high economic growth in the future.

The economist Amartya Sen, in advocating the Food Security Bill, wrote: "The political support for tolerating — and defending — the present profligacy in catering to the relatively better off contrasts sharply with the fiscal alarm bells that are sounded whenever proposals for helping the poor, the hungry, the chronically unemployed come up".

"I love this present!

This presents a dilemma.

This presents a problem.

This presents its own difficulties.

This presented a unique problem.

This presents a big opportunity.

This presented two problems.

However, this presented many obstacles.

This month a handful of protesters stormed a hotel in the centre of Harare protesting against the vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko's stay there since December 2014, saying this was profligacy by a government that claims it has no money.