Sentence examples for legitimate expense from inspiring English sources

But such deals lead inevitably to rows about what counts as a legitimate expense on which a profit should be earned.

Here are two of our favorites: One woman claimed a mink coat as a legitimate expense because she said "she worked better when she looked her best".

Governor Spitzer of New York, who officially resigned today, has got more problems, because they're now saying he spent thousands of dollars on these prostitutes and tried to make it look like a legitimate expense.

I have argued previously that an employer should shoulder legitimate on-the-job expenses, as indeed he should, but a speeding ticket is not a legitimate expense; it's a penalty for lawbreaking, and one your supervisor should pay himself.

Second homes are a legitimate expense for M.P.s, who need to have a base in their constituencies as well as in London, but the system for claiming allowances had become lax, and was tacitly regarded as a legitimate way of boosting official pay.

"The House appeared to be little more than a cross between a rubber stamp and a talking shop which had taken to collective activity such as the imaginative interpretation of what might be a legitimate expense claim as much as an odd form of displacement activity as out of any shared sense of malice or corruption".

Referring to the £7000 expenses for Hong Kong staff, the lawyers said: "This refers to legitimate expenses" and "Mr Pannu was simply organising this/acting as a conduit.

Corruption Where research is made freely available through open access publishing, there may still be legitimate expenses that a publisher needs to recoup.

"As far as we are concerned, these are all legitimate expenses incurred by the N.Y.P.D. while performing their duty protecting the mayor," Mr. Carbonetti said.

"As a recent candidate, there are many legitimate expenses associated with winding down operations, saying thank you and complying with election filings.

It is sad, but wholly predictable, that health insurance companies would erect a thicket of impenetrable codes and jargon between patients and reimbursement for legitimate expenses.