10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THRIFTLESSLY»
Discover the use of
thriftlessly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
thriftlessly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Winter in the Azores: And a Summer at the Baths of the Furnas
Dwarf cedars are also occasionally seen, but so many of these have been
thriftlessly burned for charcoal without any care having been taken to replace
them, that few now remain. As you approach the top, the cone is seamed in all
directions ...
Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, 1841
2
Caliphs and Sultans: Being Tales Omitted in the Usual ...
the self-designated invalid, as he cut off vast hunches of bread, and covering
them thriftlessly with the relishes, and scarcely masticating them, bolted them
hastily with staring eyes, as though fearful that the food over which he was
snorting ...
Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley, 1868
3
An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky ...
... was practically given me by Captain S 's pointing out a flock of woodpeckers
busily and noisily employed in the provident task of securing their winter's
provisions, for it appears that that sagacious bird is not all the time thriftlessly
engaged in ...
4
Beyond Westminster & Whitehall
court re-invented the concept of fiduciary duty whereby the GLC was said to have
a duty 'not to expend...money thriftlessly but to deploy the full financial resources
available to the best advantage'. In consequence, any local authority exercising ...
5
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama
The commons had long complained to Henry VI (and to his two predecessors)
that crown income was thriftlessly managed. By reinvigorating the methods of
accounting, by replacing some of the cumbersome exchequer machinery with
simpler ...
6
Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust
[A] local authority owes a fiduciary duty to the ratepayers from whom it obtains
moneys needed to carry out its statutory functions and this includes a duty not to
expend those moneys thriftlessly but to deploy the full financial resources
available ...
Ken Coghill, Professor Charles Sampford, Tim Smith, 2013
7
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on ...
It had, in short, won the election by pledging itself to be thriftlessly wicked, cruel,
and vindictive; and it did not find it as easy to escape from this pledge as it had
from nobler ones. The end, as I write, is not yet; but it is clear that this thoughtless
...
George Bernard Shaw, 2009
8
Understanding the British Empire
... was not an end in itself; not to recognise this could make it seem false. All
Churchill's speeches upon social reform were full of concern for the stability of
society, of anxiety about state resources of 'inestimable advantage running
thriftlessly to ...
9
Long Term Control of Exhaustible Resources
No catastrophe has occurred in the sense that the warning was given before
reserves were depleted; the cost of the mistake was to use the resource too
thriftlessly' over some period. Why does this analysis lead to far less pessimistic
an ...
10
Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in ...
The Californios behaved indeed thriftlessly and extravagantly; they gave away to
achieve status. They felt proud of the gentility they were fostering on this frontier.
And the Californios did not simply ride their horses — they bet on them too ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THRIFTLESSLY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
thriftlessly is used in the context of the following news items.
Roy Marshall: The Hampshire giant who kept English cricket alive in …
... Silent Revolutions: “Roy Marshall felt that cricket contained two kinds of madman: the fast bowler, because he expended his energies so wildly and thriftlessly; ... «Cricket Country, Apr 14»
AU: Old Wine In New Bottle
They enrich themselves in the twinkling of an eye and lead ostentatious lifestyles, spending thriftlessly and improvidently. This behaviour has the danger of ... «Freedom Newspaper, May 13»
Gartner: 50% of companies will expect BYOD by 2017
Gartner says the natural conclusion of this is that IT execs and financial officers – never people to spend money thriftlessly at the best of times – get twitchy, ... «AppsTech, May 13»
