Sentence examples for preference for spending from inspiring English sources

Good old Sinitta – serial beneficiary of Cowell's obvious preference for spending his time with ex-girlfriends over current ones.

His preference for spending long stretches abroad had opened him up to the accusation of being a "European" writer.

Senate Republicans, who were ideologically opposed to the bill's preference for spending over tax cuts, now had an even better excuse to kill it, and they did.

In fact, given that this demographic group came of age, found jobs and began trying to make ends meet in the midst and aftermath of the financial crisis, I'm surprised that any millennials responded to a survey by confessing a preference for spending time with a banker than a dentist.

Voters always say that they're worried about the deficit, but, as Brendan Nyhan, an assistant professor of government at Dartmouth, put it to me, they're skittish when cuts are specified: "They may have a symbolic preference for cutting spending, but that's different from their actual preference for spending on programs they like".

Yet their preference for spending cuts, even in programs that benefit them, dissolves when they are presented with specific options related to Medicare and Social Security, the programs that directly touch the most people and also are the biggest drivers of the government's projected long-term debt.

Leisure activities: Assesses preferences for spending free time.

Class-3 particularly has no significantly different preferences for spending on innovations targeting people with 'obesity'; Class-1 and Class-2, however, are significantly and negatively orientated towards innovations targeting obesity.

Both wild-type (Fig. 1C) and Fmr1 knockout (Fig. 1D) mice displayed equivalent significant preferences for spending time in Chamber 1, with stimulus mouse (S1), compared with Chambers 2 or 3, and there was no significant interaction between genotype and chamber (F 2, 48)<0, P = 0.994).

Shutting down Washington DC is also often defended by stressing a Republican Party preference for state spending - opposition to federal spending reframed, that as, as a states' rights issue that is also in need of challenge.

"The real problem is the preference for public spending," said Nicolas Baverez, an economist and author.