| Most of us know people who misuse their credit cards through holiday spending sprees or random acts of profligacy. |
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| It seems pretty clear that the human race is fouling up the earth by our profligacy and one of the biggest fouling agents is automotive fuel. |
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| The United States is almost invariably held up as a shining counterpoise to this profligacy. |
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| The nation is again being told off for its profligacy, economic wowsers merrily predicting a scuttling. |
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| For a country legendary for thrift and good husbandry, this is a disgraceful display of profligacy. |
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| Offering credit cards to students would have been considered an unthinkable act of profligacy on behalf of the banks a decade earlier. |
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| Years of profligacy under the previous regime condemned them to their debt. |
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| The introduction of some form of private finance initiative would eradicate much of the profligacy within the industry. |
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| The shameless profligacy of the emperor's life was such as to shock even a jaded Roman public. |
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| Locals are stunned by the profligacy as deadlines are passed and the budget overruns by millions of dollars. |
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| He hung his head and refused to appear after the match to discuss his profligacy. |
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| Furthermore, we must put an end to the profligacy of the European agricultural policy before we can proceed with enlargement. |
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| The domestic public debt is not the product of state profligacy. |
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| Meanwhile, the country is paying an onerous price for its profligacy. |
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| This show conveyed the haunted profligacy of the artist and his work. |
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| The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money. |
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| The one who is probably the only severe critic of such profligacy here is not even given a single assistant! |
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| Is the present profligacy of some of the developed countries sustainable if we all join in that lifestyle? |
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| This budget is a continuation of old fashioned, 1970's style Liberal profligacy. |
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| Such profligacy threatens the government's solvency, reduces potential growth and lowers living standards. |
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| After Defoe's strike, only some fine goalkeeping by Handanovic and England's own profligacy denied them a second goal. |
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| These unhappy dramas usually play out against a background of boredom, profligacy, infidelities, divorces, drinking and so forth. |
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| King even attributed poverty in large measure to what he considered the profligacy and laziness of African Americans. |
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| To use something once and then toss it onto the rubbish heap is not just an act of profligacy, it is also represents a failure of the collective imagination. |
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| Palace almost paid the price for their profligacy, when Svensson and Roberts both flicked on a long punt and the ball fell invitingly for McKenzie just 12 yards out. |
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| Even those who were not already republicans wanted the royals to be more aware of how incongruous their profligacy seemed. |
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| In the institution of the central bank, the government has the ultimate tool to permit its profligacy to continue without check and without regard to the future. |
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| One of the key reasons behind their struggles has been the team's disappointing goal return, with profligacy in front of goal undermining the good work of a creative midfield. |
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| After paying a heavy penalty for their profligacy in front of goal against Italy in their last match, Korea Republic turned all that around when it mattered most against Algeria. |
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| Chile striker Esteban Paredes's comment on his side's profligacy in front of goal in this tournament is one that could just as well apply to Spain, their opponents in Friday's decisive Group H match. |
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| Because helping to support such profligacy is a waste of public money. |
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| For all of Newcastle's braveheart efforts, Wolves were also guilty of profligacy with Fletcher and Doyle wasting chances when in good positions. |
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| His celebrity and the profligacy of his campaign have jazzed up a subdued election. A quiet ride would have been fine with Mr McAuliffe's opponents. |
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| While it is too early to predict the full impact on human rights of the profligacy of recent years, it is clear that the human rights costs and consequences of the economic crisis will cast long shadows. |
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| It should be stressed that this social profligacy is difficult to put into figures, as the funds invested come straight out of PDVSA without going through the books of the State budget. |
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| Yet this transition will need to be carefully managed if some of the poorest people in the world are not to bear the burden of the industrialised world's profligacy in carelessly abusing the planet's environmental resources. |
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| Such positioning works well with liberal-minded folk in southern England, fearful of Labour spending profligacy and Tories' monstrous social attitudes. |
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| We have to get away from the cynicism of the tit for tat' logic which consists of imposing on the South the profligacy of all-out liberalisation of their most vital sectors, while its people are struggling to survive. |
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| Everywhere one looks in the energy-rich world we inhabit in Europe, and the USA in particular, one can see examples of energy extravagance, even profligacy. |
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| On economic policy, immediate action is required to correct for the home-grown profligacy and to tackle the effects of the global economic slowdown on Ghana. |
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| The hosts' profligacy came back to haunt them four minutes before the interval, Nagoya keeper Toru Hasegawa parrying a fierce shot from Al Ittihad skipper Noor into the path of Saleh Al Saqri, who made no mistake. |
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| Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring. |
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