Sentence examples for not a spent from inspiring English sources

By 1960 rhythm and blues was, if not a spent force, at least aging with its audience.

Following three days of French air strikes in Mali, the Islamists launched a counter-offensive yesterday showing they are not a spent force.

"It seems clear that … nationalism is not only not a spent force," argued the late Stuart Hall in an essay, Our Mongrel Selves.

Griffin needed something – anything – to put in front of his weary followers as evidence that the party is not a spent electoral force.

"The four-day rampage demonstrates that the LRA remains a serious threat to civilians and is not a spent force, as the Ugandan and Congolese governments claim," said a HRW report published this week.

Jacob Trip, industrialist, appears as a wizened but hawkish potentate in his 80s; not a spent force so much as a figure of terrific authority, given stature by his pose, but also by the intense massing of paint in the shrewd face.

RYAN: So not spending more money as much as they say is not a spending cut.

"It's not a spending crisis," Mr. Balanoff said.

But after three losing seasons, this is a time for careful building, not a spending spree.

And it's also not a day spent binging.

He taught me that a minute not spent learning is a minute lost!