Sentence examples for affairs spending from inspiring English sources

Amid his siblings' shenanigans, Seif, the president's second-eldest son, had been "opportunely disengaged from local affairs," spending the holidays hunting in New Zealand.

International affairs spending — on diplomats and embassies, aid to more than 100 countries and funding for the World Bank, the United Nations and others — declined after the cold war.

Charismatic, darkly handsome and possessed of an innate sharpness of mind, he soon embarked on several extra-marital affairs, spending weeks and months away from the family home in northwest London.

And the draconian budgets proposed by Mitt Romney's running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, would cut foreign affairs spending by 10 percent in 2013 and even more in 2016.

The budget drafted by his running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, would cut foreign affairs spending by 10 percent in 2013 and even more in 2016.

Representatives John A. Boehner and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are urging Mr. Obama to propose a freeze on international affairs spending for 2010.

Maxwell, who was acutely sensitive about press coverage of his affairs, spent thousands on legal actions.

Demetrio Albertini, his proposed director of institutional affairs, spends much of the morning playing with his phone, bored.

Representative Ellen O. Tauscher, a California Democrat who specializes in military affairs, spent a week touring Iraq last month and heard these contracting complaints raised by officers there.

Penn, entangled in English affairs, spent little time in Pennsylvania and showed erratic judgment in selecting his non-Quaker deputies, who were almost always at odds with the Quaker-dominated legislature.

The heavily edited schedules, which include several days last March for which all appointments have been obscured, indicate that Mr. Sheekey, whose formal title is deputy mayor for government affairs, spends much of his time fulfilling that role.