Exempel på thrifty

• Think of the fraud perpetrated on the thrifty who had been implored to save and not to spend.

• Since he was seven he has suffered from muscular dystrophy, and his parents, who have always been thrifty, hard-working people, have always looked after him.

• If interest is the wages of thrift, the wages of the thrifty have been cut ruthlessly year afer year.

• By all means let us encourage the ambitious, the thrifty and the brainy, but that cannot be done throughout the whole range of employees.

• This would penalise the thrifty man, who had saved during his life as a public servant, as against the spendthrift.

• Why clobber everybody else, large and small, profligate or thrifty, in the same way and all at once?

• A discrimination comes in at the point when it is discovered that one of the two has been industrious and thrifty.

• In other words, we are extremely thrifty, and we also exercise sound financial management.

• If people desire to be thrifty and to control their own spending, indirect taxation is the right choice.

• Approximating shapes with discrete decompositions is thrifty, with no redundancy or ambiguity.

• Thus, the thrifty phenotype hypothesis can be envisaged as an altered programming of growth and metabolism that aids survival pre- and early postnatally (fig001nhc).

• The thrifty, sober, careful, disciplined entrepreneur was, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, inextricably mixed with the uncontrolled, reckless idealist.

• The steady, thrifty, and industrious were required, such writers asseverated, for whom certain reward awaited.

• Gamblers and spendthrifts destroyed the patrimony of some families, while thrifty, lucky, or wise managers could substantially expand their estates.

• In order to maintain low overhead costs and to ensure that only the needy received benefits, friendlies promoted the concepts of individual success, hard work, thrifty living, and integrity.