Sentence examples for practical spending from inspiring English sources

That's not to say that there weren't people who went way past practical, spending three times what a car was worth to restore it because it spurred memories of youth (there was definitely one of those).

But it just didn't seem practical: spending four years studying the theory of music, which doesn't interest her, while here in Newark, the school system is constantly adapting to real and threatened cuts.

The lab is a perfect example of practical spending.

Another strength was using snowball sampling, giving the possibility to make the investigation cost-effective and practical, by spending less time screening informants to determine whether they were appropriate for the study and less time establishing a trusting relationship with new participants [ 30].

The boys mucked around in class, played practical jokes, spent break-time kicking footballs around instead of putting nail varnish on.

When he turns up at the Eurostar terminal, he is wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt, black Doc Martens, aviator sunglasses, and a pair of cargo shorts that he declares "extremely practical" but spends the whole holiday rummaging in, looking for his wallet and tobacco.

Practical managers spend an increasing amount of time struggling for identifying valid proposals, classifying proposals and partitioning proposals into groups as well as maintaining some control over the quality and composition of the resulting groups.

But it sounds like if you want a quality Android experience, at the moment it's far more practical to spend just a little more and avoid the troubles that accompany cost-cutting measures.

Synthetic reeds are more expensive, but they last roughly 15 times longer than a cane reed, and many people feel that it's more practical to spend twenty dollars on a reed that will last for a month instead of twenty dollars on a new box of reeds every week.

If survivors, still struggling with their trauma, are left without practical support after spending a few weeks in a recovery program, they'll likely fall back into vulnerability.

There was also the practical consideration that spending almost a year saying the Kaddish is difficult for parents who also have other children to care for.