Sentence examples for acceptable spending from inspiring English sources

Have an idea of an acceptable spending limit.

But it would be more reassuring in the long run, as Dr. Kent noted, if everybody agreed beforehand how much risk is acceptable, before spending billions of dollars and major political capital.

But she adds a rider: "I suspect that to make it better we will need a bit more money and I don't know if the BBC will have any more money". The corporation already spends £1bn on BBC1 and it may not be politically acceptable to spend any more.

If you make $200,000 a year, it is acceptable to spend money on any room previously used by servants, like the kitchen, but it is vulgar to spend on any adult toy that might give superficial pleasure, like a Maserati.

Then there was John Thain, who was humiliated because it is no longer acceptable to spend $35,000 on a commode for a Merrill Lynch office suite.

Though the Tories were keeping their head down, so was everyone else: here it was socially acceptable to spend the evening staring at your smartphone.

It became routine to normalise every decline in my health, until it seemed acceptable to spend most days in bed on oxygen, too exhausted to do much but breathe.

"What social games have done is make it perfectly acceptable to spend $10 in a game," says Hale.

It's perfectly acceptable to spend some of the money from gifts in buying something nice together.

In that case, apparently, it's completely acceptable to spend every waking moment moping about as if you fell into a septic tank on your wedding day.

We live in a time when your 20s are basically a protracted adolescence, making it acceptable to spend that decade in complete squalor.