Sentence examples for expends time from inspiring English sources

President Obama expends time, energy and political capital to get a controversial stimulus package through Congress — a package that looks as though it could avert a crisis of historic proportions.

They expended time, effort and money to keep me alive.

The Pratts were willing to expend time in place of money.

Great powers cannot always choose where to expend time and energy.

The British and U.S. patent offices have long refused to expend time or energy on such claims.

To make consumption lean, identify steps in your customers' consumption process where they expend time but get no value.

As a result, the only risk of mediation is that you will expend time and money without reaching agreement.

"I believe in the end we'll prevail, but we may still incur substantial attorney's fees and expend time and effort away from our clients," said Mr. Mazza, a former regulator at the National Futures Association.

Then, in each instance where the customer is forced to expend time for no return in value, the provider asks how the system can be reconfigured to eliminate wasted time.

It is hard to imagine any party expending time and effort on such a referendum – even if scrapping a gaggle of Canberra pollies would give the electorate a perverse pleasure.

Many other New Jersey Democrats concur that Mr. Bradley was self-absorbed as a senator, reluctant to expend time or political capital on any initiative that was not his own.