| The wives are greedy and the men, in the absence of any well-regulated women, are recklessly improvident. |
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| Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado. |
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| It is a matter of irrelevance, at least to me, whether the grant was improvident or no. |
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| Or put another way, it's stealing from tomorrow to make up for the improvident ways of today. |
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| No evidence is found that would suggest in all the circumstances that the transaction was intently improvident or fraudulent. |
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| Consequently, early versions of the installment plan were dismissed as the folly of the improvident poor, immigrants, and women. |
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| Many people of normal capacity make improvident and unwise decisions in business matters. |
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| Government nurtured these behemoths by weaving an improvident safety net, and by practicing crony capitalism. |
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| In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. |
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| By applying its expertise, the Commission can protect a complainant from being pressured into accepting an improvident settlement. |
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| In this period of restraint, it is particularly important that there not be improvident spending. |
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| Claimant representatives began to use the reports to ensure they are protected from negligence claims based on improvident settlements. |
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| Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable. |
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| This well illustrates that even the best regulated national fisheries are not immune to improvident policies motivated by short-term social and political concerns. |
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| He had hoped it would bring him money and social position, but Emily's father ties up her fortune, and Lopez is revealed as an improvident adventurer. |
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| No evidence was adduced to show that this was an improvident sale. |
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| When Benjamin Bunny grew up, he married his Cousin Flopsy. They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful. |
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| Following Raleigh's death, members of his family approached Boyle for compensation on the ground that Raleigh had struck an improvident bargain. |
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| Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight. |
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| The old elite worried that the masses were too improvident and seditious. |
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| They are on opposite sides of a see-saw. Putting public and private borrowing together, it becomes clear that America as a whole is no more improvident now than it was before. |
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| She herself had described her life as a miracle. Born Françoise d'Aubigné in a prison in Niort, in western France, in 1635, she was the unwanted daughter of Constant d'Aubigné, an improvident and unscrupulous minor nobleman. |
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| If Canadians are a sensible people, that is partly because of the hard lessons their land and climate hold for the foolish, the careless, and the improvident. |
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| Those are the features which I stand here to declare and which marked an improvident stewardship for which Great Britain and France have dearly to pay. |
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| He was vain, sensual, frivolous, profuse, improvident. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him, envy. |
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| Denouncing improvident prosecutions and unjust sentences should not prevent us from recognizing the legitimacy of some applications of the criminal law. |
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| In short, improvident settlements or outright abandonment may be indicative of failures 118 in the system and account for a subsequent lack of confidence in it. |
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| We believe that it would be improvident for the Council of Europe to establish parallel structures which would compete with the European Union's activities with respect to the UfM's actions. |
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| But when its expected liabilities are weighed against its disproportionately large fiscal revenues, it is no longer the most improvident locality. |
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| While the management mechanisms UNOPS has put in place afford considerable protection against these types of contingency, it would be improvident to provide no margin for unanticipated shortfall of income. |
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| Improvident tax cuts by state legislatures and faltering investment returns have left educational institutions, both public and private, scratching for every nickel and dime. |
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