Sentence examples for defray the expense from inspiring English sources

Use all means to persuade the Apaches of any tribe to come in for the purpose of making peace, and when you get them all together, kill all the grown Indians and take the children prisoners and sell them to defray the expense of killing Indians".

The analysis, conducted by Jonathan Gruber, an M.I.T. economist who helped advise Massachusetts on its overhaul of health insurance, examines proposals being discussed by the Senate Finance Committee and others in which small companies would have to pay some portion of their payroll toward health benefits but would also receive some form of tax credits to defray the expense.

Another step, they say, would be for funding agencies to provide money to defray the expense of meeting requests.

He sells most of the CDs to friends and clients to defray the expense, but he's under no illusions that it will enable him to ditch his day job as a piano tuner for Steinway.

However, the turnpike was eventually abandoned, because the tolls received were not sufficient to defray the expense of maintaining the road and associated bridges.

The money raised was intended to defray the expense of the war being fought against Prince Louis of France, who had invaded England before the death of King John and was claiming the English throne.

The money will go to defray the expenses of needy children accepted into the academy's Teen Jazz Program, said Arlene Kriv, a spokeswoman for the conservatory.

With the exception of regularly scheduled, annual meetings, some funds probably need to be used to defray the expenses of high-profile speakers who might attract other participants.

Private insurance plans defray the expenses for many Americans, but we know that there are many people who do not receive healthcare coverage through their employment.

In 1763, the British East India Company assumed indirect control from the Nawab of the Carnatic over the erstwhile Chingleput District, comprising the present-day Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur districts, in order to defray the expenses of the Carnatic wars.

The main expenditures were for the military, including $137,000 for "defraying the expenses" of the Department of War, $190,000 for retiring the debt from the Revolutionary War, and $95,000 for "paying the pensions to invalids".