Sentence examples for expensive leave from inspiring English sources

Assemblyman Steven Sanders, chairman of the Education Committee, said Mr. Levy had been weighing a combination of issues, including family and whether he could afford to continue an expensive leave of absence from his job as a corporate lawyer and manager for Citigroup.

But some education officials have wondered all along why Mr. Levy would have taken an expensive leave of absence from his job as a corporate lawyer and manager for Citigroup, where he is director of global compliance, if he did not have longer-term aspirations to the job.

WASHINGTON, June 6 — Closing the Indian Point nuclear reactors would make electricity more expensive, leave New York more vulnerable to natural gas shortages and add to pollution that causes global warming, according to a report released on Tuesday by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences.

According to the report, these schools are often incredibly expensive, leave students with huge debts, have poor graduation rates, employ aggressive and unethical recruiting tactics, and receive billions of dollars in taxpayer money.

Over the last decade, there have been a dizzying series of changes in the executive suites of Disney's various divisions -- from the acrimonious departure of a former studio chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg, in 1994, to the expensive leave-taking of the former superagent Michael Ovitz from the president's position after just 18 months.

But it was also expensive, leaving the group deeply in the red, foundation officials say.

They have not bid for the most expensive left fielders on the market, Jason Bay and Matt Holliday, and watched the most expensive starter, John Lackey, sign with Boston for $82.5 million this week.

Cleanups have become more difficult, time consuming and expensive, leaving less money for the remaining cleanups to enter the final stage.

By traditional valuation standards, the Nasdaq is extraordinarily expensive, leaving some analysts worried that it is overdue for a sharp drop.

AMERICA'S health-care system is expensive, leaves nearly 50m people uninsured (out of a population of some 300m) and produces outcomes that are worse than those of many other rich countries.

Indeed, another side-effect of the RDR is that independent financial advisers will become much more expensive, leaving the bank as one of the only ports of call for many.