German officials have argued that any open-ended commitment to joint liabilities would encourage errant governments to profligacy , violate Germany ’ s constitution and raise its borrowing costs .
The ruling party ' s propagandists in Beijing have been working overtime , huffily putting out statements bashing the United States for its fiscal profligacy and economic sloth .
In the desert all around are the lush golf courses and artificial pools squandering a finite , life - giving commodity , offering a kind of gleeful profligacy to those willing to pay .
And he even forced certain writers to recount concerning his profligacy some details which were unspeakable , or , more properly , intolerable to relate , considering that this was in a biography of him .