Sentence examples for act to spend from inspiring English sources

It seems unlikely that Congress will act to spend even the smallest amount of new money on something like this during an election year.

When he turned 65 in 1983, Mr. Young retired from the act to spend more time with his family in Palm Springs and Los Angeles.

Right from the start, Mr Obama wanted his Recovery Act to spend money on a low-carbon future, on radical school reform, on health reform and on creating jobs.

When the married father of two signed his five-year contract and took over as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on 1 February, his first act was to spend tens of thousands making a one-word adjustment to the Met's corporate logo.

The 3-year-old agency got off to a fast start with $400 million of Recovery Act money to spend in 2009 and 2010.

One of his first acts was to spend $5200 of taxpayer money on a secret door to the Governor's office so that he didn't have to interact with the press or public.

Last spring, legislators passed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, authorizing NIH to spend $126 million over 10 years for pediatric research.

ARPA-E's initial $400 million in funding came from the Recovery Act, to be spent over two years.

(As recently as last summer the Congressional Budget Office was projecting a debt-to-G.D.P. ratio climbing into the 80s by the end of this decade if the government did not act to cut spending further and raise more tax revenue).

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius explained that because NIH received $10.4 billion in the recent Recovery Act to be spent over the next 2 years, "we didn't need additional resources".

He welcomed the ACT government's pledge to spend $964,000 on a residential behaviour change program for men who use or are at risk of using violence.