Sentence examples for expensive spending from inspiring English sources
It is also proceeding with expensive spending plans, including the paid parental leave scheme.
Poland and Romania, in particular, have proved alarmingly ready to make expensive spending pledges for political reasons.A new World Bank study of public spending (see chart below) highlights the bad bargain that the region's taxpayers are getting.
Many Hungarians' discontent with the government tends to evaporate as soon as they look at the opposition.Mr Orban's campaign has been gaffe-strewn, and his programme is peppered with expensive spending commitments, including bigger housing subsidies.
The French company is laden with around euro33 billion of debt thanks to an expensive spending spree that included buying Universal Music, Universal Studios and American cable television networks.
He gestures to the other side of the valley where his brother-in-law is knee-deep in mud behind a buffalo, ploughing a field that once lay fallow.Expanding safety nets does not have to be expensive: spending on cheap food is only 4% of Chhattisgarh's budget.
"Fall is a great time because it's in between these expensive spending seasons," she says.
As a consequence, whereas the poorest quintile (often from rural areas where distribution costs are higher and electricity is therefore more expensive) spent about 8.25% of their income on electricity (though consuming much less), the portion of the richest quintile accounted for 3.47% only [107].
Clifford Winston, an economist at the Brookings Institution, argues that public ownership of transit is governed by political -- and therefore hugely expensive -- spending decisions, and that planners routinely overestimate demand for new projects.
Expanding safety nets in Chhattisgarh was not expensive, since spending on cheap food is only 4% of the budget.
The state's Medicaid programme, at more than $45 billion, is America's most expensive, with spending per person more than twice the national average.
Preparing for the perceived North Korean threat is proving expensive, with spending on missile defence alone expected to rise by 30.5% to 182.6bn yen in the fiscal year 2007.
