Sentence examples for expense something from inspiring English sources

It's a sobering thought that all of them would have enjoyed this advantage at the state's expense, something denied to those youngsters whose interests they have been elected to serve.

As things turned out, they received, at enormous expense, something quite different – a murky-brown, socially conscious western (exactly what the executives didn't want, and had kidded themselves they weren't getting) about a war between cattle barons and immigrants in 1890s Wyoming.

Burns, from Streatham, south London, who worked in financial services, said she felt very awkward and wanted to leave, but her mother and sister had come from the Midlands for their Christmas treat at Claridge's at some expense, something they had liked doing for the past few years.

He goes over to the edge of the stage and makes a wisecrack at this dimwit's expense, something . about his girth, like, "Couldn't at least one of you two in that chair laugh?" There's a minor smattering of titters at this.

The bank said it made headway in cutting expenses, something investors are watching closely.

One of the firm's main aims in the last few years has been to rein in compensation expenses, something investors like Nelson Peltz have made a key focus.

Because MF Global is in bankruptcy, he cannot look to the company to indemnify him for any settlement or even pay his legal expenses, something normally provided to corporate officers sued for their actions.

The petition also shows that a property appraiser hired by the group had determined that the properties should produce $700,000 in annual profit after expenses, something Greater Harlem Housing had not accomplished.

"They are taking money out of one pocket to pay for ongoing expenses, something that Governor Malloy criticized" in previous governors and the Democratic-controlled legislature, Mr. Cafero said.

What it has come to after a month of debate over Gov. George E. Pataki's budget proposal is this: a stare-down among state leaders, not about whether to borrow billions of dollars to pay day-to-day expenses, something repugnant to financial analysts, but about how to do the borrowing.

"The voters were clearly torn between their anger and dismay at what has been happening over MPs' expenses, something that we are trying to clean up, and at the same time the support for the former MP, the Labour MP Ian Gibson who was very popular," he said.