Sentence examples for driven spending from inspiring English sources

This obsession with a playoff system, with national prominence, with settling once and for all who's really the world champion of the global superpower in the end only fuels an arms race that has driven spending on college football programs through the proverbial roof.

Still, the success of Caltrans -- doing more for citizens with efficient, data driven spending -- is in some ways a model for the rest of the state.

I sought to block what I regarded as ideologically driven spending cuts, beyond what had been agreed as necessary for fiscal stability.

As for the journey, we would drive, spending around £200 on the Eurotunnel crossing and £300 on petrol and motorway tolls.

Even that understates the true challenge, since entitlement costs (health-care payments and pensions) will drive spending ever higher after 2022.Hopes ran high just eight weeks ago for a better result.

Now the Pataki administration maintains that the stripped-down budget will drive spending up to $84 billion without any new spending or programs, because it lacks the governor's cost-cutting proposals.

If they drive interest rates down in response to QE, the program can be effective if those low rates then drive spending.

Yet, this is how thousands of men in Saudi Arabia, where women are not permitted to drive, spend uncountable hours of their free time: chauffeuring female relatives.

Mr. Oakeshott had been offered a seat in her cabinet to help drive spending to rural areas, she said.

The Office for Budget Responsibility thinks that the costs of ageing could drive spending on health, social care and benefits from 14.1% to a wholly unsustainable 19.6% by the 2060s.

To drive spending on energy to the same level again, says Deutsche, the price of crude would have to rise to $145.Spending on oil as a share of global output, which is about 3.5%, also peaked in 1980, at 5.9%.