Sentence examples for was being extravagant from inspiring English sources

Most of them thought that Bank of America (BofA), America's third-biggest bank, was being extravagant last October when it agreed to pay $47 billion in shares, 40% above the market price, for FleetBoston Financial, the ninth-biggest and the market leader in New England.

You may feel you are being extravagant if you need to take a distribution from your investments to pay for a vacation, new clothes or even to pay an electricity bill.

"I was afraid I was being too extravagant, but now I love it and I think I got just what I wanted," she said.

Store owners say they and their middle-class clientele are being threatened by extravagant rents.

Celebrations that once might have been lavish, even extravagant, are being toned down to reflect what some call a new spirituality, said Rabbi Ted Tsuruoka of Temple Isaiah of Great Neck.

You wait until you're taxes are being spent on the extravagant lifestyle of the CEO of a private company doing public sector work - at least you know this fellow can be got rid of - how are you going to dictate the salary of a private company CEO?

I'm both a pessimist and an idealist – my ideals of what could be are so extravagant, but I'm also very aware of what's possible, so I guess that's a footprint I've left in these stories.

It was election time in Peru, and extravagant promises were being made.

The way they are being exploited, however, is an "extravagant extension" of the doctrine of foreign state immunity, the submission said.

In Astana, it's more as if an extravagant promise were being made, and clothing it in glass and steel and ETFE will somehow make it come closer to becoming true.

I have a personal theory that almost everyone secretly meditates, whether they realise it or not – even the kind of people who'd make extravagant "I'm being sick" gestures were you to suggest they attend a Buddhist retreat.