Reckless Sentence Examples

The first to explore any portion of the mighty river was the reckless and daring adventurer Ordaz.

Now began a period of hasty measures and reckless decrees.

Distress made him, not servile, but reckless and ungovernable.

He was magnificent - and reckless.

Reckless talk in public places led to the arrest of the conspirators.

In all matters of government, Andrew was equally reckless and haphazard.

One reckless investigation gives all paranormal investigators a bad reputation.

These people showed, to their own ruin, a reckless liking for the brandy of the white man.

Like anti-Semites elsewhere, the Christian Socialists were reckless and irresponsible, appealing directly to the passions and prejudices of the most ignorant.

The king, reckless as he was, had more than his share of the Stuart melancholy.

Their capacity for wrongdoing, especially under Sylvia's reckless leadership, was apparently limitless.

In an almost reckless hurry, the Iranians had skipped many of the intermediate testing steps.

A party that will be prudent, not reckless.

Don't be reckless with other people 's SRT kits, don't put up with people who are reckless with other people 's SRT kits, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

As a result of her low self-esteem, she has reckless sex and ends up pregnant.

Berserk was famed for the reckless fury with which he fought, always going into battle without armour.

But their reckless leader escaped, and for three years led the life of an outlaw, till in 1417 he was finally captured, still in arms, and sent to the stake.

The alternative – that Death might see Rhyn as a viable leader for the Council – was inconceivable.  No self-serving, reckless, half-evil being could be entrusted with the fate of humanity!  Baffled by the deity's bizarre visit, Kris pushed the memories out of his mind.  He had to find Rhyn.  He picked up his rucksack and joined Kiki outside the tent.  Kiki stood before a portal on the dark beach.

There's a difference between free will and having the deck stacked against you.  Humans need someone to protect them from these reckless Immortals, not to mention the demons.

In order to prevent the destruction of the human world, she'd taken an aggressive, borderline reckless, course of action.

The sole immortal able to disable Others and Watchers, the Grey God – Darian – was known for being fearless to the point of reckless.

Feeling reckless and trapped by her circumstances, Jessi didn't wait for him.

These results reveal either a surprising ignorance by caterers of what they are producing or a reckless disregard for what constitutes a healthy meal.

Of course, Soames, a former equerry to Prince Charles, has also spoken out against spiteful and reckless attacks on minorities.

Chicken people need more foresight, and, due to their basic reckless and erratic nature, they seesaw between being rich and poor.

To assume this regime's good faith is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of the world in a reckless gamble.

Every traffic interaction at junctions will be optimized, eliminating hesitation, reckless joining of the flow, and bad timing.

Let's face it, it would have been a little reckless to go out in old boots.

It is wrong and even reckless to blindly imitate the west in everything.

It was very reckless to go bail in this way.

Don't be reckless with other people's vehicles, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours ' .

She becomes reckless through force of circumstances that are outside her control.

The economic development of Uruguay was retarded by the corruption of successive governments, by revolutionary outbreaks, by the seizure of farm stock, without adequate compensation, for the support of military forces, by the consequences of reckless borrowing and over-trading in 1889 and 1890, and also by the transference of commercial undertakings from Montevideo to Buenos Aires between 1890 and 1897, on the opening of the harbour and docks at that port.

In action his reckless bravery had earned him rebuke, and in Paris he was remarked for the exact performance of his military duties, though he found time to whet his appetite for art in the matchless collections gathered by Napoleon as the spoil of all Europe.

Climate change, pollution and reckless energy consumption, all remain important concerns.

I grow reckless like that when I want a thing and can't get it.

Now he has embarked on an ambitious, some would say reckless, TV project.

Nations get reckless about God and reckless about themselves.

Armindo Gomes, 67, was charged with second-degree assault, breach of peace and second-degree assault, breach of peace and second-degree reckless endangerment.

The foreign policy of Athens was now directed towards an almost reckless expansion (see Pericles).

After escaping from the chains of his passion for the beautiful but reckless Mrs Woffington, Garrick had in 1749 married Mademoiselle Violette (Eva Maria Veigel), a German lady who had attracted admiration at Florence or at Vienna as a dancer, and had come to England early in 1746, where her modest grace and the rumours which surrounded her created a furore, and where she found enthusiastic patrons in the earl and countess of Burlington.

In all his life nothing became him so well as his manner of leaving it; but the fortitude he then showed, even if it was not merely the courage of despair, cannot blind us to the fact that he was little better than a reckless and vicious spendthrift, who was not the less dangerous because his fiercer passions were concealed beneath an affectation of effeminate dandyism.

In 1787 all the states but three had bicameral legislatures-it was therefore natural that the new national government should follow this example, not to add that the division into two branches seems calculated to reduce the chances of reckless haste, and to increase the chances of finding wisdom in a multitude of counsellors.

The process of reckless deforestation is perceptible in certain districts, the natives often destroying a whole tree for a plank or rafter.

It was won by the generalship of Bruce and his captains; by the excellence of his position, by the steadiness of his men, and, obviously, by the reckless fury of the English cavalry, and by the folly which left their archers open to defeat by the Marischal's handful of horse (24th of June 1314).

Lauderdale having married the rapacious countess of Dysart, corruption was rife; his brother, Haltoun, was an example of reckless greed; opposition arose to a scheme of union, presently dropped, and by 1673 the duke of Hamilton and Sir George Mackenzie led an organized political opposition.

He destroyed the sympathy between the people and their natural leaders; and he threw the former into the hands of men who have subordinated all national to ecclesiastical considerations, or into the hands of reckless, ignorant, and dishonest adventurers."

Later Sadducees, who actually bore the name, resisted this and all the characteristics of the Pharisees and continued to flatter the predominant foreigner - Greek or Roman - by imitating him with less reckless bravado than the first Hellenizers and with growing assurance.

In spite of slight physique and a dissolute life, his reckless courage and ambition brought him into prominence in the war against the Italians in Tripoli; he was made aide-de-camp to Wahid-ed-din, afterwards the Sultan Mohammed VI.

The reckless system of outdoor relief, which had pauperized whole neighborhoods, was abolished, and the system of unions and workhouses established (see Poon LAW).

The economic development of Uruguay was retarded by the corruption of successive governments, by revolutionary outbreaks, by the seizure of farm stock without adequate compensation for the support of military forces, by the consequences of reckless borrowing and over-trading in 1889 and 1890, and also by the transference of commercial undertakings from Montevideo to Buenos Aires between 1890 and 1897.

The reckless destruction of forests along the watercourses also adds to the barren aspect of the country.

Most of the native Sapiums have been destroyed by reckless tapping, and the merits of this genus have been somewhat overlooked and deserve reinvestigation.

That increase, it has been shown, is due to the early marriage and excessive reproduction of the reckless and hopeless, the poorest, least capable, least desirable members of the community.

The same spirit continues to show itself in the almost reckless introduction of Greek deities even within the walls of the pomoerium and their ready identification with gods of the old religion, whose cult they in reality superseded.

It would have been a bold, not to say a reckless, dreamer who dared predict that any future researches could restore to us the lost knowledge that had been forgotten for more than two millenniums. Yet the Victorian era was scarcely ushered in before the work of rehabilitation began, which was to lead to the most astounding discoveries and to an altogether unprecedented extension of historical knowledge.

Although the attempt to force the Roman Catholic religion upon the people, the federal decree of 1830 forbidding further immigration from the states, and the reckless grants of land to Mexican favourites.

Meanwhile the misery of the country was increased by the reckless raising of loans by the nizam's government and the pledging of the revenues to a succession of great farmers-general.

In his last moments he cursed both the Bourbons and Admiral Sir Sidney Smith for having induced him to engage in this reckless adventure (1806).

Valiant, enterprising, pious as he was, all these fine qualities were ruined by a reckless good nature which never thought of the morrow.

At fifteen he was a man, resolute, spirited, enterprising, with the germs of many talents and virtues, but rough, reckless and very imperfectly educated.

Winter pruning is effected when the tree is comparatively at rest, and is therefore less liable to " bleeding " or outpouring of sap. Summer pruning or pinching off the tips of such of the younger shoots as are not required for the extension of the tree, when not carried to too great an extent, is preferable to the coarser more reckless style of pruning.

With the accession of Ismail (q.v.) there followed a period of wild extravagance and reckless borrowing accompanied by the extortion of every piastre possible from the fellahin.

On the 3rd of July he reached Bridgwater again, with an army little better than a rabble, living at free quarters and behaving with reckless violence.

Meanwhile the needy and reckless Bothwell, a partisan of Mary of Guise, a Protestant and the foe of England, was accused by Arran of proposing to him a conspiracy to seize the queen, but the ensuing madness of Arran left this plot a mystery, though Bothwell was imprisoned till he escaped in August 1562.

His internal policy was blind, reckless and unscrupulous, and inevitably led to disaster.

The reckless conduct of the Madras government had roused the hostility both of Hyder Ali of Mysore and of the nizam of the Deccan, the two strongest Mussulman powers in India, who attempted to draw the Mahrattas into an alliance against the British.

In addition to the reckless speculation of this period, there were continued political dissensions, repeated dictatorships and financial mismanagement on the part of the government.

Rapid settlement, excessive prices, reckless waste of money, and wild commercial ventures that glutted San Francisco with all objects usable and unusable made the following years astounding from an economic point of view; but not less bizarre was the social development, nor less extraordinary the problems of state-building in a society " morally and socially tried as no other American community ever has been tried " (Royce).

This did not suit Philip, who, although he instituted a process in the supreme tribunal of Aragon, speedily abandoned it and caused Perez to be attacked from another side, the charge of heresy being now preferred, arising out of certain reckless and even blasphe On the other hand it is suggested that this story of his being the son of Gomez was only circulated by Ruy Gomez's wife, Ana de Mendoza, as a refutation of the possibility of a supposed amour between her and Perez.

In his reign was begun the reckless system of foreign loans, carried to excess in the ensuing reign, and culminating in default, which led to the alienation of European sympathy from Turkey and, indirectly, to the dethronement and death of Abd-ul-Aziz.

In spite of his reckless exposure, he was one of the few unwounded officers.

It is supposed that the forests were much richer before the settlement of the state, which was followed by reckless consumption and waste, and the more terrible ravages of fire.

Prerogative, despite Bacon's advice and efforts, clashed more than once with liberty; Salisbury's bold schemes for relieving the embarrassment caused by the reckless extravagance of the king proved abortive, and the House was dissolved in February 1611.

The Caps struck at once at the weak point of their opponents by ordering a budget report to be made; and it was speedily found that the whole financial system of the Hats had been based upon reckless improvidence and c prof the wilful misrepresentation, and that the only fruit of their long rule was an enormous addition to the national debt and a depreciation of the note circulation to onethird of its face value.

The oyster fishery is everywhere, except in localities where the natural beds are nearly exhausted, carried on in the most reckless manner, and in all directions oyster grounds are becoming deteriorated, and in some cases have been entirely destroyed.

In 428 or 429 the whole nation set sail for Africa, upon an invitation received by their king from Bonifacius, count of Africa, who had fallen into disgrace with the court of Ravenna Gunderic was now dead, and supreme power was in the hands of his bastard brother, who is generally known in history as Genseric, though the more correct form of his name is Gaiseric. This man, short of stature and with limping gait, but with a great natural capacity for war and dominion, reckless of human life and unrestrained by conscience or pity, was for fifty years the hero of the Vandal race and the terror of Constantinople and Rome.

In Old Norse the term berserker thus became synonymous with reckless courage, and was later applied to the bodyguards of several of the Scandinavian heroes.

But irreverences of this kind, as well as the frequent burlesque citations of the Bible, whether commendable or not, had been, were, have since been, and are common in writers whose orthodoxy is unquestioned; and it must be remembered that the later Middle Age, which in many respects Rabelais represents almost more than he does the Renaissance, was, with all its unquestioning faith, singularly reckless and, to our fancy, irreverent in its use of the sacred words and images, which were to it the most familiar of all images and words.

His country had been reduced to a desert by famine and war, and his own reckless extravagance had plunged him deeply in debt.

The forests of Rumania were long either neglected or exploited in the most reckless fashion.

Reckless of political expediency, Sumner moved that the Fugitive Slave Act be forthwith repealed; and for more than three hours he denounced it as a violation of the constitution, an affront to the public conscience, and an offence against the divine law.

Among those who stood about him were four knights, some of whom had personal grudges against Becket, and all of whom were reckless ruffians, who were eager to win their masters favor by fair means or foul.

If he had stayed long in England he would have made himself hated; but he was nearly always absent; it was only as a reckless and spasmodic extorter of taxation, not as a personal tyrant, that he was known on the English side of the Channel.

But it had not long been granted, when John proceeded to throw away his advantage by acts of reckless impolicy.

It certainly appears that some of his followers, and notably his three reckless sons, had given good cause for offence by highhanded and selfish acts.

Unfortunately for England his ambition was to be tile mirror of chivalry rather than a model administrator He took up and abandoned great enterprises with equal levity; he was reckless in the spending of money; and in times of trouble he was careless of constitutional precedent, and apt to push his prerogative to extremes.

Some reckless enthusiasts for truth set four trustworthy hospital nurses to watch her; the Celtic obstinacy of the parents was roused, and in defence of their imposture they allowed death to take place in eight days.

On the basis of belief in inspiration we find, during the days of Protestant scholasticism, the most reckless and insane assertions of scriptural perfection.

Assignats were issued with such reckless profusion that the total for the three years of the Convention has been estimated at 7250 millions of francs.

Even when due allowance has been made for the financial disorder which the Convention inherited from previous assemblies, and for the war which it had to wage against a formidable alliance, it cannot be acquitted of reckless and wasteful maladministration.

Later is the Fostbreedrasaga (1015-1030), a very interesting story, told in a quaint romantic style, of Thorgeir, the reckless henchman of King Olaf, and how his death was revenged in Greenland by his sworn brother the true-hearted Thormod Coalbrow's poet, who afterward dies at Sticklestad.

This reckless and lawless practice extended to several counties, but was worst in Galway and Roscommon.

The cork oaks of the southern provinces and of Catalonia are of immense value, but the groves have suffered greatly from the reckless way in which the produce is collected.

Reckless as was the course adopted, it was in touch with the feelings of the majority of a nation which had been to the very end deceived by the government and by the press not only in regard to its own resources, but also in regard to those of the United States and of the colonists in arms in Cuba and in the Philippine Islands.

Talon's reckless, but he's cunning and he's suddenly playing very smart.

The chart shows drink driving and drug driving less a concern than speeding and reckless driving.

I can't TRAIN HIM, he's so reckless you see!

But to be in charge of such a highly powerful vehicle without knowing how or why you're driving it seems reckless to me.

With reckless abandon, Glitch pushed down on the foot stirrup.

He was reckless and unstable, resorting often to lying and deceit, and never pausing to count the cost of an enterprise or troubling to adapt means to ends.

Mass meetings were held in Buenos Aires, and it fell specially to the lot of Dr del Valle, who was an able orator as well as a sincere patriot, to expose the irresponsible and corrupt character of the administration, and the terrible dangers that threatened the republic through its reckless extravagance and financial improvidence.

The minority of the sultan gave full play to the anarchic elements in the state; the soldiery, spahis and janissaries, conscious of their power and reckless through impunity, rose in revolt whenever the whim seized them, demanding privileges and the heads of those who displeased them, not sparing even the sultan's favourites.

Ford by no means stood alone among English dramatists in his love of abnormal subjects; but few were so capable of treating them sympathetically, and yet without that reckless grossness or extravagance of expression which renders the morally repulsive aesthetically intolerable, or converts the horrible into the grotesque.

His suspicions were intensified by the hostile criticisms of the Tilsit arrangement among his own subjects and by the arbitrary conduct of his ally, who continued his aggressions in reckless fashion as if he were sole master of Europe.

Instead of the close protection from the outer air, the respirators, and the fancy diets of our fathers, the modern poitrinaire camps out in the open air in all weathers, is fed with solid food, and in his exercise and otherwise is ruled with minute particularity according to the indications of the clinical thermometer and other symptoms. The almost reckless reliance on climate, which, at Davos for instance, marked the transition from the older to the modern methods, has of late been sobered, and supplemented by more systematic attention to all that concerns the mode of life of the invalid.

Impregnable Malta surrenders without a shot; his most reckless schemes are crowned with success.

I ca n't TRAIN HIM, he 's so reckless you see !

Let 's face it, it would have been a little reckless to go out in old boots.

Do n't be reckless with other people 's vehicles, do n't put up with people who are reckless with yours '.

Do n't be reckless with other people 's SRT kits, do n't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Their aim is to help and advise but if they find some reckless disregard for the law they will have to acts.

They were charged with arson, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, authorities said.

In fact, most reckless driving, we know, is carried out by young men.

The stricter licensing regime must be implemented speedily so reckless lending and other sharp practices are clamped down on and punished.

It seeks to make the offense of involuntary manslaughter clearer by defining two new offenses of reckless killing and killing by gross carelessness.

But to be in charge of such a highly powerful vehicle without knowing how or why you 're driving it seems reckless to me.

I grow reckless like that when I want a thing and ca n't get it.

Arguments that his fall would require little American military investment are reckless in the extreme.

Screaming from the rooftop of Philadelphia house parties, they are dancing wild and reckless.

Armindo Gomes, 67, was charged with second-degree assault, breach of peace and second-degree reckless endangerment.

Our reckless spending habits early in life led us to this financial fiasco that we are trapped in now.

If you will probably continue to spend with reckless abandon after liquidating your savings, don't cash it out.

When you add teenage alcoholism in the mix, the highway is full of speeding cars, reckless drivers and an impending feeling of doom.

He/she engages in reckless behavior, neglects to consider the effects of his/her actions on others and is often accused of failing to learn from past mistakes.

She even spent time in jail after violating her probation on a conviction of reckless driving.

Paris Hilton was not present for her court appearance, but pleaded no contest to one count of alcohol-related reckless driving, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.

After pleading guilty earlier in the year for reckless assault, the supermodel will spend five days mopping the floors of New York's Sanitation Department.

Originally, Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days behind bars after violating probation by driving with a suspended license -- privileges that were suspended as a result of a reckless driving charge from September 2006.

Sutherland was also convicted in 1993 for alcohol-related reckless driving.

According to a source close to the erstwhile prankster, Steve-O was admitted to Cedars-Sinai in order to log some recovery time from his "reckless lifestyle."

The most serious charges for the youngest Hogan was "reckless driving involving serious bodily harm" and he was tried as an adult.

Initiatives include lobbying against animal abuse in filmmaking and TV production, urging governments to consider animals in their disaster planning and working to eliminate reckless hunting practices.

If the rider or person injured was behaving in an irresponsible, reckless fashion, their claim against the park will be drastically weakened.

Behavioral signs of this adjustment disorder include primarily actions that show a disregard for rules, laws, and the rights of others, such as picking fights, vandalism, truancy, and reckless driving for teens.

Antisocial behaviors exist along a severity continuum and include repeated violations of social rules, defiance of authority and of the rights of others, deceitfulness, theft, and reckless disregard for self and others.

In fact, some studies show that reckless antioxidant supplementation can have a downright negative impact on your health.

Regular folks tried their best to emulate their favorite stars' glittery outfits and voluminous hairstyles, and in the process ignited a generation of reckless abandon.

Their children Roman, Bo, Kayla and Kimberly are heavily involved across the canvas and while Bo was always considered the reckless one, his family loyalty never came into question.

The best telenovelas feature a mixture of longing passion, familial interference, class and economic barriers as well as reckless choices and the consequences that follow.

Being involved in a car accident may be an indication that you are a reckless driver, and multiple accidents on your record may make it more difficult for you to find insurance coverage.

She became reckless, drinking and clubbing, leaving the kids with her soon-to-be ex.

He was charged with reckless driving and underage drinking and served 166 days of an eight month jail sentence.

Winter mountain driving was not for the reckless or faint of heart, but the Deans were neither.

Henceforward he repressed all projects of reckless enterprise, and confined himself to the gradual expansion and consolidation of the empire.

But, as applied to lower and more obscure forms of life, teleology presented alfnost insurmountable difficulties; and consequently, in place of exact experiment and demonstration, the most reckless though ingenious assumptions were made as to the utility of the parts and organs of lower animals.

When called upon to go to the aid of this settlement, which in1865-1866was sore pressed by one of the mountain Bantu tribes known as the Baramapulana, the burghers of the southern Transvaal objected that the white inhabitants of that region were too lawless and reckless a body to merit their assistance.

He was quick, energetic and resourceful, reckless of his own safety, a strict disciplinarian, a painstaking and hard-working officer.

Fur-seals are still found in Kerguelen, though their numbers have been reduced by reckless slaughter.

Though much of the timber is of commercial value - notably the kauri, totara, puriri, rimu, matai and kahikatea - this has not saved the forests from wholesale, often reckless, destruction.

The economic value of the forests was originally great, but there has been reckless cutting, and the timber-bearing forests are rapidly disappearing.

Reckless of consequences, he swept away the venerated ceremonial formalities which his ancestors had scrupulously observed, openly scoffed at ancient usage, habitually dressed in foreign costume, and generally chose foreign heretics as his boon companions.

There the policy of subsidies for railway building had been carried to a reckless extreme.

Precepts such as these could hardly fail to effect some modification of the reckless zeal of the Galileans in the pupils of the synagogue.

The great canal was not begun; irrigation works were started but were soon given up. The letters of Kleber and Menou (the successors of Bonaparte) show that the expenditure on public works had been so reckless that the colony was virtually bankrupt at the time of Bonaparte's departure; and William Hamilton, who travelled through Egypt in 1802, found few traces, other than military, of the French occupation.

It may be urged in his favour that the general circumstances of the time, where they did not produce reckless and foolhardy daring, almost necessarily produced a somewhat excessive caution.

He appears first as one of the most reckless and extravagant of the young nobles who surrounded Nero.

It is true that his election was immediately impugned by the cardinals on frivolous grounds; but the responsibility for this rests, partially at least, with the pope himself, whose reckless and inconsiderate zeal for reform was bound to excite a revolution among the worldly cardinals still yearning for the fleshpots of Avignon.

Pelagius himself desired to avoid controversy, and with mental reservations denied these statements of his friend; but he did not escape suspicion, and his condemnation in 418 was the signal for a literary polemic, which lasted ten years, and in which Julian of Eklanum was the most brilliant but reckless combatant on the side of Pelagius.

At the close of the Russo-Turkish war in 1878 he was selected by the emperor to fill the post of ambassador at Constantinople, and for more than a year he carried out with great ability the policy of his government, which aimed at re-establishing tranquillity in the Eastern Question, after the disturbances produced by the reckless action of his predecessor, Count Ignatiev.

His father, Henry Kepler, was a reckless soldier of fortune; his mother, Catherine Guldenmann, the daughter of the burgomaster of Eltingen, was undisciplined and ill-educated.

A feature of this struggle was the reckless way in which the rival kings gave away the property of the crown in order to gain adherents, thus enriching the princes and weakening the central government.

In politics proper he seems indeed to have had few or no constructive ideas, and to have been entirely ignorant or quite reckless of the fact that his attacks were destroying a state of things for which as a whole he neither had nor apparently wished to have any substitute.

Mexico has suffered much from the reckless destruction of her forests, not only for industrial purposes but through the careless burning of grassy areas.

Richard, in particular, sacrificed all other interests to this scheme, and raised the necessary funds by the most reckless methods.

Meditating, it is probable, emigration upon his release, he turned his attention while in prison to colonial subjects, and acutely detected the main causes of the slow progress of the Australian colonies in the enormous size of the landed estates, the reckless manner in which land was given away, the absence of all systematic effort at colonization, and the consequent discouragement of immigration and dearth of labour.

It was his reckless drunkenness which ultimately ruined him in the estimation of Peter the Great, despite his previous inestimable services.

The process of reckless deforestation is perceptible in certain districts.