Sentence examples for elect to spend from inspiring English sources
12.50pm BST Preamble If you're Novak Djokovic or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, this is not how you'd elect to spend a lazy middle Sunday afternoon.
To elect to spend millions of dollars and months of your life on a single project, courtesy of a thumbs-up from an ex, points to a good deal of continuing respect.
Modern couples often elect to spend some time apart, especially in the summer holidays, and Mr and Mrs Bercow will certainly have plenty of anecdotes to compare when they reconvene in the Speaker's grace-and-favour apartment at Westminster.
It must be recognized, however, that a defendant might conceivably, as a matter of calculated strategy, elect to spend a prolonged period in confinement for contempt in the hope that adverse witnesses might be unavailable after a lapse of time.
Granted, on some days they will elect to spend the majority of the day inside the coop, but I put that down to them having a few more brain cells than my ducks, who seem to relish the winter weather.
In a forthcoming book** Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conclude that "the poor seem to have many choices, and they don't elect to spend as much as they can on food".Agriculture, then, is no magic solution.
Gingrich was responding to Romney's continued claims of having elected to spend minimal time in politics.
The folks at Barneys seem a little stunned that this is how we have elected to spend our wedding day.
I remember when the library elected to spend its budget on the enrichment, rather than the impoverishment, of cultural resources.
I took half the day off, and we elected to spend it playing in the last of the snow.
