Sentence examples for count every dollar from inspiring English sources
This would be amusing, except that it cost a great deal of money (at a time when we supposedly have to count every dollar); caused the misdirection of our counterterrorism resources; and, according to the paper, provoked an actual discussion in the White House about shooting down a civilian plane that Montgomery had, it seems, just picked from the air.
For bootstrapped entrepreneurs, this period of austerity is like growing up during a World War, where rations are strict and you count every dollar.
Or, put more simply, it's the value you doodle onto your balance sheet after you buy something and can't count every dollar you paid for as resulting in material assets.
He counts every dollar toward the day when he hopes to help his family settle here.
Other critics question the criterion of efficiency itself, which counts every dollar of input and output but pays no heed to the moral or social or aesthetic qualities of either and which excludes workers from expressing their own preferences as to the most appropriate decisions for their firms.
As Basken notes in another Chronicle article, "a longstanding gentlemen's agreement" among universities has allowed researchers moving to other institutions to take their grants with them, but "[n]ow, with universities counting every dollar, that bit of protocol may become a quaint courtesy of days gone by".
"This is a milestone that is usually determined on Dec. 31 after we've counted every last dollar, not the middle of August," said Jeff Blake, Sony Pictures' president of worldwide marketing and distribution.
Those two facts helped me decide it was worth it, but I was also determined to make every dollar count.
In its newly released "Making Every Dollar Count" report, the transportation authority's executives channeled their inner Suze Orman to cut costs.
Sony, in turn, found itself with a director who was used to making every dollar count, which was essential, since according to Mr. Green "they gave us a comedy budget" — reportedly $25 million — "and we wanted to make an action movie".
