Sentence examples for money to demonstrate from inspiring English sources

Just days before the Oct. 8 message, Mr. Edwards announced that as a matter of principle his campaign would abide by the spending limits of federal matching money, to demonstrate his commitment to reducing candidates' dependence on big money.

One of the goals of the women of my mother's generation was to stand monument to the fact that, though never idle, they did not work for money — to demonstrate, in my father's parlance, that they were ladies.

The bill would require any locality that accepted the federal money to demonstrate that it complied with the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights laws, to show that it was not illegally purging voters and to ensure that voters with disabilities could vote with the same privacy and independence as other voters.

As a counterpoint to the proposals that have been presented to Congress so far, E. W. Blanch Jr., the former chief executive of a commercial insurance brokerage firm founded by his father and now known as Benfield Blanch, suggested that state regulators help create a pool of perhaps $25 billion to $50 billion in private money to demonstrate industry commitment.

You're giving the seller some money to demonstrate that you aren't going to make an offer and get the seller all excited, and then just go buy somebody else's house.

"They also then threw a lot of money around to demonstrate they were actually committed… and they did, they spent a lot of money".

The brother requested a pack, but the husband bought a carton to save money and to demonstrate kindness.

Governments need to be in a position to show the taxpayer exactly what they are getting for their money; in effect to demonstrate their return on investment.

But those cases could be looked at as an opportunity for people who normally must juggle money and death to demonstrate compassion, he said.

"When people have too much new money, the way to demonstrate their success is with a lot of frivolous expenditures," said Randy Komisar, a longtime high-technology executive and the author of "The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur".

CONSPICUOUS consumption has been an object of fascination going back at least as far as 1899, when the economist Thorstein Veblen published "The Theory of the Leisure Class," a book that analyzed, in part, how people spent their money in order to demonstrate their social status. 1 2 3 4 Next Page ».