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improvident
1. This complaint, however, of the scarcity of money, is not always confined to improvident spendthrifts
2. Such nations are always strangers to every sort of luxury, and great wealth can scarce ever be dissipated among them by improvident profusion
3. Like an improvident spendthrift, whose pressing occasions will not allow him to wait for the regular payment of his revenue, the state is in the constant practice of borrowing of its own factors and agents, and of paying interest for the use of its own money
4. The fund becoming in this manner altogether insufficient for paying both principal and interest of the money borrowed upon it, it became necessary to charge it with the interest only, or a perpetual annuity equal to the interest ; and such improvident anticipations necessarily gave birth to the more ruinous practice of perpetual funding
5. It was an ―accident‖ waiting to happen! Now President Bush is allowing himself to be (further) manipulated by his political opponents into revitalizing the area through spending initiatives and designs modeled on the wasteful, economically improvident urban programs of the sixties instead of providing relief and (financial) assistance on a needs basis
6. And how came he not to have settled that matter before this person's death?-- Now indeed it would be too late to sell it, but a man of Colonel Brandon's sense!--I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern!--Well, I am convinced that there is a vast deal of inconsistency in almost every human character
7. had his improvident father suffered this youth, a youth of great promise,
8. One individual, whose income was derived from brewery shares, attributed the prevailing distress to the drunken and improvident habits of the lower orders
9. Not to have bound and gagged him seemed to Decoud now the height of improvident folly
10. She found, to her dismay, that this was owing to their having eaten all the seed potatoes,—that last lapse of the improvident
11. She hired a little room and furnished on credit on the strength of her future work—a lingering trace of her improvident ways
12. They were improvident and vain
13. And how came he not to have settled that matter before this person’s death?—NOW indeed it would be too late to sell it, but a man of Colonel Brandon’s sense!—I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural, concern!—Well, I am convinced that there is a vast deal of inconsistency in almost every human character
14. Can it, then, be seriously contended, that because the constitution has in some cases made the Government of the United States dependent upon the State governments, in all which cases it has imposed the most solemn obligations upon them to act, that it will be necessary and proper for Congress to make itself dependent upon them in cases where no such obligation is imposed? The constitution has defined all the cases where this Government ought to be dependent upon that of the States; and it would be unwise and improvident for us to multiply these cases by legislative acts, especially where we have no power to compel them to perform the act, for which we have made ourselves their dependents
15. The average annual expense of this establishment, so much censured for its wasteful and improvident management, has but little exceeded $1,500,000, which is not much more than twice the amount of the usual annual appropriation for our economical Civil List