Sentence examples for obscene spending from inspiring English sources

Only generals at war and Swiss sports officials contemplate such obscene spending.

The problem on all levels of government is not inadequate revenue but obscene spending.

Pryor's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said the campaign saw the "obscene" spending in Senate races in the 2012 election.

He was called obscene for spending too much money when he did up his mum's house, buying her a fancy sink.

The curators said the images and slogans in the collection suggest that politics was among the best forms of entertainment in the 19th century and serve as a reminder that dirty tactics and obscene campaign spending are not recent inventions.

I worked on-set as a music supervisor for Hollywood movies and saw the obscene millions spent on screenplays written by dullards and vetted by committees of accountants whose bottom line was the bottom line of profit.

Meanwhile, the candidates are spending obscene amounts of money.

Mr. Florio repeatedly accused Mr. Corzine of trying to "buy the election" by spending "obscene" sums.

A Thompson campaign spokeswoman on Friday called the mayor's spending "obscene".

Anne Fenton, a spokeswoman for Mr. Thompson, called the mayor's spending "obscene".

Doing things the Chelsea way, which means spending obscene amounts of money on transfer fees — financial doping, as Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger calls it — has its rewards.