How To Use Provident In A Sentence

He won the summit in the thick of howling wind and driving snow, providentially stumbling upon Trust
Their departure just before the floods was providential.
providential care
How providential it was to find you were actually with Gillorns in Newtown! IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
A glance at some of the Court's business cases this term demonstrate the important role it can play in protecting business from improvident regulation. Business Could Use A Friend

Yet all of the various elements which have historically been assigned to Fortune, Fate, and Chance are gathered into a single providential system of which the fortuitous is a part. FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
The nation itself came to be seen in a providential or even millennial light.
Catharina having thus prevailed with her Mother, her bed made in the Garden Gallerie, and secret intelligence given to Ricciardo, for preparing his meanes of accesse to her window; old provident Lizio lockes the doore to bed-ward, and gives her liberty to come forth in the morning, for his owne lodging was neere to the same Gallery. The Decameron
When she rocks in its cradle the babe the young parents intrust to her heed; when she calls the kine to the milking, the chicks to their corn; when she but flits through my room to renew the flowers on the stand, or range in neat order the books that I read, no spell on her fancy could lead her a step from the range of her provident cares! A Strange Story — Volume 07
As in the Democracy, the coming of equality and the death of his own class exist as providential forces, of which monarchs are both the witting and unwitting agents.
providently, he had saved up some money for emergencies
This combination of physical and mental conditions so amazingly favorable to the spread of the Voltairean ideas was a circumstance independent of the state of the surrounding atmosphere, and was what in the phraseology of prescientific times might well have been called providential. Voltaire
And the provident fund by developers for project loans as a developer of security, there is no restriction in this regard, but many of the procedures are reimbursable by the developers.
Consequently, early versions of the installment plan were dismissed as the folly of the improvident poor, immigrants, and women.
And the provident fund by developers for project loans as a developer of security, there is no restriction in this regard, but many of the procedures are reimbursable by the developers.
The tautological, circumlocutory argument of American Exceptionalism can be stated thusly: “We are on a providentially inspired mission and are guided by a ‘Higher Power’, therefore whatever our actions or policies, we cannot be in the wrong.” American Exceptionalism
The sangh leader said the government was yet to deposit arrears of provident fund which had mounted to Rs 22 crore.
Our country has a providential position in our century in relation to Europe, and our efforts to Catholicize and sanctify it give it an importance, in a religious aspect, of a most interesting and significant character. Life of Father Hecker
As a matter of fact, this condensed expression condenses a series of positive features, rising above the controversial and dark facets of migration, beginning with the observation that "the passage from monocultural to multicultural societies can be a sign of the living presence of God in history and in the community of mankind, for it offers a providential opportunity for the fulfillment of God’s plan for a universal communion" n. Archive 2008-07-27
No evidence was adduced to show that this was an improvident sale.
Since Fortuna is a personification of the fortuitous, and the fortuitous is a branch of the chain of causality, its normal place in the providential scheme is within the realm of Fate, which is the unfolding of Providence in multiplicity and time. FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
Or put another way, it's stealing from tomorrow to make up for the improvident ways of today.
Providentially a small barrel of water, a cag of wine, some biscuit, and a few muskets and cartouch boxes, had been thrown into the boat. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
The appearance of Marshall Lee Miller to handle his defence against the passport violation charge had seemed more than just providential.
He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
First and most important, according to serious theism, God is constantly, immediately, intimately and directly active in his creation: he constantly upholds it in existence and providentially governs it.
The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential.
a benevolent, providential God which sustains his perfectibilist hopes. PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN
The blessing of the Parish Centre providentially falls on the 12th of December, the day when in Mexico and in the Americas celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The woman dropped a folder containing paperwork referring to Provident Personal Credit.
The important thing to note is that these criticisms run up against the source of religious belief in the ignorance which induces men to believe the world to be governed providentially, that is, by God's purposes and for man's benefit. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
On the contrary, the experience of Christ as Creator points us to particular creatures as those objects of God's providential care without which our understanding of the divine identity is impoverished.
In such a situation, the possibility of going away on an international residency presents itself as a very real relief, a providential oasis or retreat to an artist.
But it is time to turn to some of those special and rare outgates that the Amen with the keys gave to His favoured handmaiden, the Lady Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments. Samuel Rutherford
But by progress must not be understood the imaginary and metaphysical _law of progress_, which should lead the generations of man with irresistible force to some unknown destiny, according to a providential plan which we can logically divine and understand. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
We believe in the authority, sufficiency, inspiration, perspicuity, inerrancy and providential preservation of the Scriptures.
The announcement seems providential at a time when good news is in short supply.
The relief he had "providentially" been able to afford to Emily's mind was the medium of an abundant satisfaction. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well - being and overplus of physical energy. Chapter 15
He added in a low voice, ‘With my tiddle tol toor rul’ — when he was providentially stopped by Towlinson, who announced: Dombey and Son
‘The hand of God’ is an anthropomorphic term for the creative power, providential care, and saving grace of God.
He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
The word ‘secular’ also alludes to the moral call to homo faber to share in the divine providential ordering of creation.
Lord Nuffield endowed educational and medical activities through the British United Provident Association, the Nuffield Foundation, and Nuffield College of Oxford University.
Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado.
From 1981, Friends Provident also pumped money into the business, bankrolling its expansion until it was floated in 1985.
Buena Vista Social Club's nomination last year was welcomed as a sign of providential change in the academy.
Was my name providentially ordered to be Green, that he might pass verbal contumely upon it? Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
He found “a substantial ground of truth in the indictment” of working-class Americans as “improvident and apparently incompetent to take care of the pecuniary details of their own life.” A Renegade History of the United States
Tametsi enim Paulus agnosceret, se in Dei providentia navigare, qui ipse dixerat, oportet te et Romae testificari: The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
So the war in Afghanistan must be gradually downshifted to the Left's pre-Iraq take on it: the "improvident" "quagmire" that "really solves nothing" and has only (as Obama said of the Bush approach) "given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, 'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims.' National Review Online
Belladonna, I do not think it is prudent or provident to turn down this offer.
Henry VI proved to be improvident, malleable, vacillating, partisan, uninterested in the arts of government, and, above all, antipathetic to the chivalric world his ancestors had adorned.
While damages may be the remedy in an action for improvident sale, following disposal those damages cannot be measured without a benchmark of value consistent with commercial reasonability.
Improvident tax cuts by state legislatures and faltering investment returns have left educational institutions, both public and private, scratching for every nickel and dime.
No fire, no wine or spirits, or medicine of any kind, and no person being within call, but luckily, perhaps the occasion would better suit the word providentially, Tuffin, calling, took me home with him. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
a providential visitation
Canavan said they wanted to know in their hearts the fire was either accidental or providential before paying the claim. WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
This provident needleworker used her earnings to buy a vineyard.
We can trust that everything that happens in our lives is under the providential care of God.
I think we've made it abundantly clear that we who pay the taxes have had enough of subsidising the indolent, improvident, and irresponsible. In health care reform debate, Obama puts focus on affordability
Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
This strikes her as a provident idea, which she'll suggest when he's in a better mood. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
French painters of distinction, but, as we discovered later, contributing too often from his own pocket to help out the _massier_ at the end of a difficult season, or smooth the path of some improvident pupil. The Ways of Men
The more provident of them had taken out insurance against flooding.
He can barely mean, that a condition of drowsihead is other than providently warned by laughter of friends. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
It was providential that he purchased this exceptional pen and he took the trouble to research its history.
Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
I'm particularly pleased because for some reason writing that story was like corralling butterflies, and took many drafts, quite a lot of whining, and many long walks while I talked it all over with Ellen before Kelly providentially said the magic one thing that allowed me to bring the whole thing together and make it make sense. Still Writing
These acids transfer the system into the order: oxalacetic acid, malic acid, fumaric acid, and succinic acid, then, in the form of active hydrogen, to encounter the active oxygen from «the red system» and form water and free energy - a series of providentially subdued explosions which I alluded to before as a dramatic encounter. Physiology or Medicine 1937 - Presentation Speech
They might draw from the waters, which cover a very small part of the fertile valley, fish enough to support, with the nelumbium nuts, nearly the whole of the present population; but then they are lotus-eaters, and as such improvident and indolent by all rules of poetry and legend. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
The provident families were never without vegetables, and notably so did the long stalked member of the cabbage family known as the "collard" abound, which, when well frosted, was both esculent and savory to their appetites, well whetted by a life in the open air and its perfect freedom from care and responsibility - those twin murderers of happiness in human life. The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,
These sayings refer to ‘a God who is generous to enemies and friends alike, who is superabundantly provident…’
These immediate-return hunter-gatherers never suffer anxiety about the future of food supplies and are characterized by improvident, generous, happy-go-lucky personalities.
As the recent research of Warren Johnston has shown, after 1660 providentialism and millenarianism were still vibrant and robust means for understanding the meaning of contemporary events.
It was held that notwithstanding the solicitor's lapses leading to the pretrial, they did not, alone or in combination, amount to egregious error, nor was the plaintiff's settlement improvident.
Had he been better informed, it is doubtful whether, improvident and enamored as he was, he would have ruralized and practicalized Romeo in the lane of Burleigh Grange. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
I do not like being asked to pay large sums of money for windfalls to the improvident, but given the choice between improvident families losing their homes and stock and bondholders in improvident banks, I know whose windfall I’d choose to hand my a share of my income to. Discourse.net: Feh
In Europe, Germans think Greeks and other southern Europeans are lazy and improvident. The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan
After all, the providential appearance of the fog saved a part of our army from being captured, and certainly myself among others who formed the rear guard. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
How are the 'improvident' -- 'harum-scarums' to live if you are not present to minister to their wants -- upon the best of security? The Story of the Foss River Ranch
Many people of normal capacity make improvident and unwise decisions in business matters.
It bails out the improvident and sticks those who made prudent decisions with the bill. Notable & Quotable
If then this distinction is denied, and the providential will of God asserted to be declarative of his preceptive, and so of his approbative will; it remains to be manifested, where and how it has been appointed of God for such an end, an end that is by the Spirit of God denied unto it: _Eccl. _ ix, 1, 2, 4. Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
wild squirrels are provident
After all, the wild Indians could not be justly termed improvident, when their manner of life is taken into consideration. Indian Boyhood
He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
Providentially, he had earlier made friends with a Russian Colonel.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian highway operator Plus Expressways Bhd. said Friday that state-owned UEM Group Bhd. and the Employees Provident Fund Board, a state-owned pension fund, have offered to take the company private for 23 billion ringgit ($7.46 billion) in cash. Plus Expressways Receives Bid
It is deep time that opens a new view of nature, which if it lacks the Divine fiat, the miraculous and providential, is no less sublime in its own way.
But when they thought themselves happily settled, intelligence was sent to Mr. Bertie, that it had been contrived in England to seize them there; whereby they were obliged on a sudden to haste to a s town called Winheim, in the Palsgrave's dominions, where they staid till their necessaries began to fail; and then it providentially happened, that Sigismund II. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
How providential it was to find you were actually with Gillorns in Newtown! IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
Assuming that appeals to providential history have been successfully banished from the repertoire of secular progressivism, surely the same ban must apply to the religious thought from which progressives once unconsciously and incautiously borrowed. Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism
I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
But that which completes the comfort of this is that he is the head over all things to the church; he is entrusted with all power, that is, that he may dispose of all the affairs of the providential kingdom in subserviency to the designs of his grace concerning his church. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Their God could act providentially, and their religious beliefs helped to shape their faith in republican government and the natural law that, in their view, underlay its principles.
Joachim of Fiore saw the millennial pattern of apocalypse as the very pattern of providential history itself.
A providential wind carried the raft to the shore.
In this view, forests, rivers, streams, waterfalls, and even deserts were providentially located at convenient locations, awaiting the hand of man.
Where a nation has been ancestorially bound by foolish and improvident treaties, ample notice must be given of their termination. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
Their God could act providentially, and their religious beliefs helped to shape their faith in republican government and the natural law that, in their view, underlay its principles.
Yet, as Smiles observed, ‘No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.’
You can use the dealing services arranged by Friends Provident.
On the morning of the day before Judy's departure Blanche, who, half-packed, was still trying to make up her mind, received a letter that, with no sense of impiousness, she considered providential. Secret Bread
The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential.
This providential interposition is all the more remarkable, that, as in the analogous case of Joseph, it was displayed in making the ordinary and natural course of things lead to the most marvellous results. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the socialised home of the future, living, provident, kindly; educator and comforter; is the true and worthy home of those human mates who wish to better the species, and to send the race forward triumphant into the eternity of life! The Montessori Method
She was a discreet, sober, provident woman, and with great patience endured many afflictions.
(suspectable), occasionally and alternatively used by husband when having writing to do in connection with equitable druids and friendly or other societies through periods of dire want with comparative plenty (thunderburst, ravishment, dissolution and providentiality) to a sofa allbeit of hoarsehaar with Amodicum cloth, hired payono, still playing off, used by the youngsters for czurnying out oldstrums, three bedrooms upastairs, of which one with fireplace (aspectable), with greenhouse in prospect (par-ticularly perspectable). Finnegans Wake
No fire, no wine or spirits, or medicine of any kind, and no person being within a call, but luckily, perhaps the occasion would better suit the word providentially, Tuffin, calling, took me home with him .... Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
The cabin was a fortress, such as befitted the exposed situation in which it lay, and was supplied by the provident husband before his departure with provisions and ammunition sufficient to stand a siege: it was furnished on each side with, a loop-hole through which a gun could be fixed or a reconnoisance made in every direction. Woman on the American Frontier
I wonder he should be so improvident in a point of such common, such natural , concern!
'improvident' (that was the favourite word) down the Yard. Little Dorrit
QA3's attorney, Thomas Dahlk, a partner at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, acknowledged that the indemnification is a complicated legal issue and questions the Provident trustee's legal standing in its suit against QA3 and dozens of other broker-dealers. InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines
He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
This well illustrates that even the best regulated national fisheries are not immune to improvident policies motivated by short-term social and political concerns.
Hobbling creditors means that interest rates rise permanently, to the sober and honest as well as the improvident; but why should the former be taxed to subsidize the latter?
Tametsi enim Paulus agnosceret, se in Dei providentia navigare, qui ipse dixerat, oportet te et Romae testificari (Act.xxiii. 11): qui insuper promiserat dixeratque: Jactura nulla erit ullius animae, nec cadet pilus de capite vestro (Act.xxvii. 22, 34); nihilominus meditantibus fugam nautis, dicit idem ille Paulus centurioni et militibus: Nisi hi in navi manserint, vos servari non poteritis (ver. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
Providentially a small barrel of water, a cag of wine, some biscuit, and a few muskets and cartouch boxes, had been thrown into the boat. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
After all, the providential appearance of the fog saved a part of our army from being captured, and certainly myself among others who formed the rear guard. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
Plastic nature enables Cudworth to account for the providential ordering of the universe without falling into the trap of occasionalism.
The announcement seems providential at a time when good news is in short supply.
I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
Thus the coming of Islam may be seen as a providential occurrence that allowed the Jews to slip between the cracks Islam made in Byzantine Church persecution.
She'd placed him in the strictest military boarding schools she could find to fend off his improvident nature. PAINT THE WIND
providentially the weather remained good
Theodore was born at Port Adelaide into the large and improvident family of a Romanian father and English - Irish mother.
The exhortation is sustained by the assurance of God's essential rectitude in that providential government which provides perpetual blessings for the good, and perpetual misery for the wicked. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Impecunious and improvident - or, as one biographer phrased it more kindly, ‘unprosperous’ were invariably on the list of invocations as well.
He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
But I think providentially, the world also has new knowledge about the best ways, the most impactful ways to reduce child malnutrition. Mobilizing to End Child Hunger
That's what I think Americans can do with this providential period of prosperity and peace.
‘The bargaining council is once again at risk of collapsing, which would mean no more provident or sick fund for workers,’ he said.
But this, too, is true: Every improvident loan requires an improvident borrower to seek and accept it.
Now that our government has implicated us in this regrettable, improvident and illegal war - we are obliged to make a substantial commitment to reconstruction.
It was the sign of providential approval of our holiday, an indication that the world really was adjusting itself to us. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
his providentially destined role
Their deception is socially provident, because it makes those people work hard, save, take risks and invent.
A message from a Catholic priest: "Your providential success is good for all since, in applauding you, we proclaim the very evangelic truth and charity which give life and salvation their being. Georges Pire - Nobel Lecture
Epicurus arguments are effective only against the view that the world was providentially designed for the benefit of humans.
It is a matter of irrelevance, at least to me, whether the grant was improvident or no.
Canavan said they wanted to know in their hearts the fire was either accidental or providential before paying the claim. WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE
The 1990s saw some of these office blocks being completely revamped or refaced, though they were scarcely 25 years old - Canada House and the Friends Provident building, both on St Stephen's Green, come to mind.
Yet, as Smiles observed, ‘No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.’
Quando eorum Pietas et Providentia, in Posteris suis relucent. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
This bill proposes to create a civil action for the improvident transfer of property by a vulnerable adult.
Friends Provident International and the Corporate Rose Logo are registered trade marks of Friends Provident Companies.
James was portrayed as a victim of the affair, and attempts were made to turn the scandal to his advantage by presenting images of the plot's providential discovery and James's personal involvement as the avenger of Overbury's murder.
The catalogue retailer Argos goes further by running a storecard scheme in conjunction with Provident Personal Credit, based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, which specialises in small-value cash loans that are paid off over a short period. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
No evidence is found that would suggest in all the circumstances that the transaction was intently improvident or fraudulent.
He had hoped it would bring him money and social position, but Emily's father ties up her fortune, and Lopez is revealed as an improvident adventurer.
It was the sign of providential approval of our holiday, an indication that the world really was adjusting itself to us. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
A high-voltage wire snapped and fell on the busy road on Monday afternoon, and pedestrians and motorists had a providential escape.
But, unfortunately, should any untoward "o'er-night clishmaclaver" occasion the neglect of this duty, and the fire be left, like envy, to feed upon its own vitals, a remedy is at hand in the shape of a pan "o 'live coals" from some more provident neighbour, resident in an upper or lower "flat;" and thus without bundle-wood or "shavings," is the mischief cured. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
a providential recovery
No. Unless the court expressly reserved authority to do so in its order, the court can only reduce the fee if it is improvident as a result of an event that was not capable of being anticipated at the time of the order.
She'd placed him in the strictest military boarding schools she could find to fend off his improvident nature. PAINT THE WIND
However, her ordeal came to an end somewhat providentially.
The wives are greedy and the men, in the absence of any well-regulated women, are recklessly improvident.
Improvident behaviour is likely to imprint indelible marks on a person's life and personality.
Christians confess the lordship and the providential care of God over the world.
But the man in his freedom, who co-operates with the God in the providential order, is often brought before the reader in the Iliad as well as in the Odyssey (see author's _Com. on the Iliad_, pp. 129, 157, 216, etc.). Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
As the war dragged on, Lincoln came to believe, despite his skeptical outlook, that a providential purpose was at work: the war was divine retribution for our long acceptance of slavery.
He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents
Moreover, it is a tale of providential escapes; thrice has the so-called Cretan been saved specially, in Ægypt, from the Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
he lived improvidently for the moment
He is unfazed by the prospect of a new and innovative competitor on Scottish Provident's patch.
Besides formal remittances, our friends of 55 Gracechurch Street, sent us occasional presents of fish, fruit, and other acceptable "oddments;" and to the last day I have been in town I could not pass No. 55 without a look of grateful remembrance towards both God and man; and a renewed recognition of that providential guidance, by which life is often insensibly turned into new, pleasant or useful channels. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
wild squirrels are provident
a provident father plans for his children's education
So this man stands as a bright, consummate flower which had at last effloresced from the roots; and in his own person, an embodiment of the very results which God had patiently sought through millenniums of providential dealing and inspiration. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
It's also clear that those of us who continued to live the old-fashioned way are to be punished by the majority for our quaint adherence to that creed -- while the feckless, the dim, the improvident and the greedy are featherbedded until the rest of us run out of money. John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
She has been provident since she was young, so she is thrifty in shopping.

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