Sentence examples for authorities spending from inspiring English sources

Enron has been a major lobbyist for exemptions from taxes and from oversight by regulatory authorities, spending $3.5 million in 1999 and 2000 alone on lobbying.

She, too, was the head of an artistic troupe during the war, but afterward, she fell afoul of the authorities, spending seven months in prison in 1991.

But this so-called devo-Manc comes with strings attached: it will not be local authorities spending this new money – it will be a single elected Boris Johnson-style mayor.

"You get some local authorities spending tens or even a hundred thousand pounds of taxpayers' cash on a huge switch-on when they are cutting back on essential services.

But the figure that represents the reality of investment in road safety, the one implied by local authorities' spending on, for instance, measures to slow traffic down, or to provide pedestrians with safe places to cross roads, is a miserly £100,000 per life.Save lives, not politicians' facesFrom the politicians' point of view, this may be rational.

The report said that Fast and Furious began as an "important and promising investigation" of the flow of weapons from American gun shops across the border to Mexican cartels but quickly got out of hand resulting in the "extraordinary" situation of the US authorities spending more than a year watching gun smugglers buy nearly 2,000 firearms for $1.5m while doing nothing about it.

The Chinese authorities spent about 600bn yuan in August alone.

In England alone, local authorities spend around £45bn a year on third party goods and services.

Its monetary authorities spent $78 billion between January and August this year selling yen and buying dollars.

And the authorities spend public money like water in hiring the best lawyers.

Federal authorities spent three years investigating the faction in Detroit, according to the complaint.