Sentence examples for spared the effort from inspiring English sources

She was working long hours when pregnant with her first child, and was glad to be spared the effort of comparing prices and going out shopping.

Although not a supporter of a planned economy, Putin spared the effort of a fundamental transformation.

No expense was spared in the effort to attract wealthy and influential guests to the wilderness.

ALTHOUGH restaurant reviewers often have to divine a chef's thinking, Sam Mason has spared us the effort.

It was important to get this first glimpse of the new all-encompassing Marc Jacobs right, then, and no expense had been spared in the effort.

They might as well have spared themselves the effort: first Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, and then Tony Blair made clear that PFI was here to stay.The ruction resembles one of the theological disputes that used to rock the early Christian church.

The phrase "terrors of the earth" is Arthur Schlesinger's, in his quasi-official biography of Robert Kennedy, who was assigned responsibility to conduct the terrorist war, and informed the CIA that the Cuban problem carries "the top priority in the United States Government – all else is secondary – no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared" in the effort to overthrow the Castro regime.

No detail has been spared in the effort to communicate the Hirst brand, complete with a logo that mimics the Bayer imprint on aspirins: five letters, arranged in a cross within a circle — a witty and ingenious ploy, turning an artist into a corporation as stable as those that produce pharmaceuticals, one of his favorite subjects.

I said something to this effect: our father would always forgive him in the end, and that was a pity, because it spared Scott the effort of earning his forgiveness.

That he should reach his conclusion so confidently and so early on would, you'd think, spare him the effort of engaging seriously with religion and spare us the effort of reading the rest of the book.

Alain de Botton might belong to this group, were it not for this, in the first chapter: "Let us state that of course no religions are true in any God-given sense". That he should reach his conclusion so confidently and so early on would, you'd think, spare him the effort of engaging seriously with religion and spare us the effort of reading the rest of the book.