Sentence examples for an expenditure from inspiring English sources

It was an expenditure but, suddenly, it seemed worthwhile.

Aristotle and Plato believed that the higher orders of pleasure entailed an expenditure of intellectual effort.

Copeland regarded the books as an investment rather than an expenditure.

I'll still say, though, that the $250 billion was an investment rather than an expenditure.

"We have an expenditure problem, not a tax problem," Dr. Hughes says.

Private hospitals also benefit from their effective advertising campaigns, an expenditure that government hospitals cannot afford.

All the orbital arms initiatives came crashing back to earth after an expenditure of tens of billions of dollars.

"I can't sit by and see an expenditure of maybe as much as $100 million going to candidates," he said.

But can a country with 18percentt unemployment and a virtually stagnant gross domestic product justify such an expenditure?

The arrangement, however, does not appear on campaign filings, either as an in-kind contribution or as an expenditure.

BET falsely reported the payment as an expenditure for salary and consulting, rather than as a dividend, the suit said.