Sentence examples for is spent instead from inspiring English sources

The direct route between Port Gibson, Miss., where the couple live, and Vicksburg, where Ms. Magnuson works as a coordinator of grant-financed projects for Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center, has been underwater since May 12. Crucial wedding-planning time is spent instead on a long, meandering commute through the countryside.

Where the money is spent instead on good maintenance, better public transport, easier-to-find information about buses and trains, safer roads for walking and cycling and technology to use the roads more efficiently, we are seeing real improvements in congestion at a fraction of the cost," said Berry.

Money was spent instead on raising salaries and pensions and financing the armed forces.

This money should be spent instead on the low-carbon transition.

Much of the money was spent instead on such projects as highway construction.

If all that money had been spent instead on jobs, education or agricultural reform, would so many Afghans still be running away?

They urge that the money for that project be spent instead on bolstering antiterrorist defenses at American ports, borders and nuclear weapons depots.

Many more lives could be saved if the money currently being poured into avoiding spectacular but rare railway crashes were spent instead on avoiding the tragedies that happen ten times every day on the roads.

The essential but delicate task of chipping away at India's mountain of inefficient subsidies which would allow vast sums to be spent instead on improving India's physical and human infrastructure has not even been started.

My response: doing so would free up the wasted resources spent every year trying to keep everyone under 21 alcohol-free, to be spent instead on tackling problem drinking.

SUPPOSE that all the time and money spent exhorting children and adults to recycle were spent instead urging each New Yorker to pick up one piece of litter each day.