Sentence examples for prodigious spending from inspiring English sources

Over dinner, the talk was of Karl: his prodigious spending, his penchant for "getting rid of what he loves," his renunciation of sex.

The government quickly scrapped its golden share in Jaguar, a carmaker with a glamorous name but a prodigious spending habit, when it fell into the loving embrace of Ford in 1989.

Mrs. Whitman, addressing a small crowd at the Four Seasons Spa and Country Club in Lakewood, said the new figures showed that voters were finally paying attention to the campaign and Mr. Corzine's prodigious spending.

His Republican opponent, Representative Bob Franks, accompanied by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and several Republican congressmen, also dashed across the state, stopping at diners, senior centers, railroad stations and rallies to remind voters of his underdog status and the prodigious spending of his rival.

China's imports have ballooned this year, thanks to its prodigious stimulus spending and a rise in commodity prices.

An entire subculture of angling evolved along its banks, when Fox and Marinaro realized that many of the Letort's more prodigious browns spent their days picking crickets and beetles from the surface film, rather than aquatic insects.

Cablers are spending prodigious amounts of money to provide broadband to homes and businesses.

His approach has made a mockery of his opponents' traditional approach of spending prodigious amounts on TV ad campaigns.

AS an oral surgeon, Steven DiRienzo of Warren spends prodigious amounts of time at his office and in operating rooms.

HAVING spent prodigious amounts of energy in the past couple of years advising, regulating and legislating better behaviour in the nation's boardrooms, Americans may be starting to feel the need to take stock of their achievements in the uncertain struggle for improved governance of their errant companies.

The centuries-long pursuit of the finest Italian silk weaves by the Russian court and church and the prodigious sums they spent on them have left Russia, despite losses during war and revolution, with an immense patrimony of rich and rare Italian textiles, only a fraction of which have ever been put on general public view.