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used to indicate death and decay, and the grasshopper has indicated improvidence. The horsefly has been used from classical times to portray torment,...

story has been used to teach the virtues of hard work and the perils of improvidence. Some versions state a moral at the end along the lines of "An idle soul...

first party's dependence, economic distress or urgent needs, or of its improvidence, ignorance, inexperience or lack of bargaining skill". In addition to...

graduated from Brown University, where he joined the improv comedy troupe IMPROVidence. After he completed college, The New Group changed its name to The State...

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says his great oratorical achievements were in part undercut by his improvidence with money, his excessively opulent lifestyle, and his numerous conflict...

where he honed his comedic skills in the improvisation comedy troupe, Improvidence. Following graduation, Belafsky returned to Hollywood. He started doing...

his invention and memory, in the infinitude of his knowledge, in his improvidence for the future, in the skill with which he answers, or rather parries...

fable's symbolism via complex framing. Other human weaknesses besides improvidence have become identified with the grasshopper's behaviour. So an unfaithful...

fourth circle, where souls who have abused their wealth through greed or improvidence are punished. The full strophe, plus the following four, which describes...

sufficiently protect its interests while negotiating the contract, while the improvidence criterion is satisfied where the contract "unduly advantages the stronger...

gained a fairly unsavoury reputation for their "low habits, general improvidence, love of gambling, total want of education, disregard for lawful marriage...

Thomas Baynham. Smyth describes him as devouring his patrimony 'by riot & improvidence'. Despite financial difficulties which led to the sale of other manors...

as they arrived and used piecemeal. Mussolini was guilty of "criminal improvidence", in causing the great number casualties of the Italian army. The German...

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surprise by the armistice, and also in this case the high commands showed improvidence and ineptitude; the Chief of Staff, General Renato Sandalli, did not...

Strikes. He claimed poverty in many instances was caused by habitual improvidence: Times of great prosperity, in which wages are highest and mills running...

promiscuity was an accepted social convention, that drunkenness and improvidence amongst the miners was common and attacking what he saw as exaggerated...

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Downing Street. He was at this time still living at Teddington, but his improvidence forced him to remove to Marsham Street, Westminster, and to give concerts...