Sentence examples for spare rich from inspiring English sources

But to many in Congress, it sounded like spending a colossal fortune to spare rich bankers from the consequences of their recklessness.

Courts and judges fought openness by banning reporters from taking notes in court, by sealing hundreds of cases — partly to spare rich and powerful plaintiffs from embarrassment — and by keeping secret even their own attendance records.

In an address in New York, Mr. de Rato did not spare rich or poor nations in his diagnosis of the world economy and said it was a good time for all countries to begin cutting their deficits and making needed changes.

But while shaking down the unemployed, Mrs Merkel proposes to spare the rich.

An infection that did not spare the rich, it afflicted the young Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Puréed vegetable soups can be lean and spare or rich and creamy, spicy or subtle, hot or cold.

"This flood became notorious for the government's decision to dynamite the levees, flooding poor neighborhoods to spare the rich," a program note informs.

Getting rid of the estate tax would subvert the gift tax (it was established as a backstop, to keep estates from being passed on before death) and would spare the rich all this complicated "estate planning," which is just a euphemism for avoiding the tax.

But he would not have regarded a "correction" which basically spared the rich but penalised the poor as worth the name.

Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is likely to lose a large part of its government and business elite for although AIDS hits poor countries worst, it rarely spares the rich within those countries, since rich people generally have more sexual opportunities than poor ones.

With the exception of pork-stuffed spare ribs, richer than a Russian plutocrat and sauced with an elementary school's worth of peanut butter, the dishes that veer the closest to conventional barbecue or that give you bones to grab and gnaw on are among the least enjoyable and impressive.