Sentence examples for organizations spent from inspiring English sources

At least 16 such organizations spent a million dollars or more on campaign advertising in the 2012 elections.

Labor and other social-advocacy organizations spent roughly $26.5 million on his behalf, and provided the bulk of the $32.5 million that he spent directly.

He remembers the 1980's as an anything-goes period, when news organizations spent money freely to pursue the most compelling film and video documentation.

As the Republican Party grapples with implications of its historic losses last fall, a similar reckoning is unfolding among the deep-pocketed conservatives whose "super PACs" and other organizations spent heavily to defeat President Obama and the Democrats in 2012.

The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies in Boston, whose members include environmental, public-interest, labor and religious organizations, spent 18 months developing guidelines and spun off a separate group called the Global Reporting Initiative.

From July 2001 to July 2002, the most recent period for which figures are available, 10 large brokerage firms and two securities industry lobbying organizations spent $31 million pleading their cases before Congress, the White House and many Washington agencies.

Still, organizations spend millions each year lobbying Congress for them.

If he follows through on his promise to spend $5 million, he will rival what state party organizations spend.

Organizations spend millions of dollars to recruit them," said Mr. Yang, a start-up veteran and most recently the president of a test-prep company, Manhattan GMAT, which Kaplan Inc. acquired at the end of 2009.

Charity Navigator had been using a system of awarding one to four stars to charities based mainly on financial measures, like how much organizations spend on fund-raising and the ratio of their administrative costs to their overall revenue.

The aid agencies, often in partnership with nongovernmental organizations, spend most of their money on improving education, health care, and other forms of "social capital" which the free market fails to provide.