Sentence examples for thrift on from inspiring English sources

The central idea of the "Treatise" was the absence of any automatic link between these two things: between a change in habits of thrift on the one side and in opportunities of real capital formation on the other.

The play is at its best in exploring the adolescent Margaret's father-complex and the influence of grocery-trade thrift on her thinking.

"With the economy in its current condition, I think people will begin turning to more thrifty ways of shopping," said Ms. Massie, whose store, Thrift on the Canal, opens next month.

Thatcher had arrived urging thrift on the nation and spending cuts all round: so keen were her spin doctors to push her personal parsimony that Denis Thatcher had been forced to swap his beloved Rolls-Royce for a Ford Cortina.

I move on to the thrift shops on the Upper East Side, where no one has any 48-inch round tables.

You'll blithely send it to one of those thrift shops on the Upper East Side or sell it on eBay (unless it's sufficiently trashed, in which case it will head straight to the Salvation Army).

I think [the early] experience was key to DailyCandy surviving the subsequent hiccups in the economy that we've lived through, because the company was founded on the principal of thrift, and on not spending money before you make money.

They can buy new and slightly used designer clothing and antique furniture and decorative accessories in a two-floor store that occupies a prominent place on Old Northern Boulevard and is one of the older and larger thrift shops on the Island.

uses its two thrift stores--one on Camp St .and a bigger one on Airline Drive--to raise funds for programs that treat drug and alcohol abuse.

We are addressing the thrift implication on the portfolio and asset allocation level, not so much on the sector or security selection level.

In Florida I hit the thrift stores on military bases; you get the best vintage clothes and they're one-offs.