Sentence examples for expenses won from inspiring English sources

Thus while MPs' expenses won a highly respectable 10,606 mentions in the national press, and 11,378 articles were published on the subject of bonuses, feverish discussion involving the word "recession" (u-shaped, w-shaped, brief or bottomless) brought a total of no fewer than 52,368 articles in 2009.

By most accounts, Maximus spared no expense winning New York City's business.

And thanks to the overseas postings, the athletic young Hussey was educated at Rugby at the taxpayer's expense, winning a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied for a year and won a cricket blue.

He competed against an obscure member of his own party, paid his opponent's election expenses, and won with 96.3% of the vote.

Esther Rantzen, a celebrity candidate running in a seat whose previous incumbent had been among the most egregious expense-fiddlers, won a humiliatingly small number of votes.But results varied hugely across the country.

But European airlines are likely to challenge some of the details of the deal, which still seems to favour American airlines at others' expense.Airbus won its biggest-ever European order: Spain's Iberia Air Lines ordered 50 of the consortium's single-aisle planes, valued at $2.6 billion, with options on 26 more.

What's more important, cutting salary and expenses or winning games?

A former Tory peer who was jailed over the parliamentary expenses scandal has won £3,500 damages from Essex Police.

A former Tory peer jailed over the parliamentary expenses scandal has won £3,500 damages from Essex police.

Queensland cannot use loyalty at the expense of winning.

Pittsburgh advanced at the Jets' expense after winning 28-12 at Cleveland.