Nothing had been expended on construction, health care, sanitation, or the provision of clean water, and more money had been devoted to administration than all projects related to education, human rights, democracy, and governance combined.
There is nothing more to be expended on that, we think, he's dead.
Since 2013 Dombek has penned a column for n+1 called the Help Desk, where she slays her advice-seekers with lines like, "First of all, Marx didn't call it alienated labor for nothing, dear," and "expending considerable effort in a cathartic sort of way think of Charles Mingus, Sid Vicious, or Axl Rose on stage".
In Iraq, the amount of money expended there on nothing very visible, for the sake of pursuing the war, is astronomical.
In bronze, they have lost nothing of the raw energy expended on the clay versions, which bear the slashes, hackings, gouges and other evidence of the artist's renowned expressionistic style.
Ms. Karagosian briefly considered continuing to rent, but felt bad that her agents had expended so much effort for nothing.
Trying to make Indigenous Australians into white people is a bit like trying to make gay people straight: a very great deal of energy has been expended in this direction and nothing has been accomplished by it.
It is a restless, very modern take on being a centre-forward, a digital age footballer for whom nothing ever stops, energy is always being expended, where in some space somewhere Harry Kane is always closing down a full-back, arcing his run, showing for the ball, pointing to the space, unstoppably the same.
"Vast amounts of money are being expended on people who have achieved nothing, people who have just promised, have twinkled, who haven't had anything published".
Much time expended, many floor-pacings and scribblings, nothing achieved; or, as they say in Newfoundland, a wet arse and no fish caught.
