Sentence examples for spectacular spending from inspiring English sources

For the last 150 years, female values of nurturing, rewarding good behavior and celebrating the miracle of birth have coincided with the spectacular spending power of Western society.

He presided over one of the most spectacular spending sprees in the history of youth football, signing unproven teenage players from Europe and South America including the £5m acquisition of Leeds United's English pair Michael Woods and Tom Taiwo – neither of whom came close to making the grade.

(Even London 2012, praised as a pared-down affair after China's 2008 super-spectacular, spent more than twice what it proposed in its winning bid).

As my family spent the morning finalizing the details of their spectacular plans, I spent the morning watching the memorial service for Maya Angelou.

England's most spectacular batsman has spent most of last week kicking his heels in Dubai.

Instead of planning her pun-based Halloween spectacular, Mrs. Kettler spent the latter part of September researching exactly what kind of respirators the New York firefighters needed and organizing school-based fund-raisers.

You can enjoy tasting the wines with views of Silicon Valley, the Lexington Reservoir and the Santa Cruz Mountains -- a spectacular way to spend a sunny afternoon.

Foreign investors, who once joined with confident Americans in a wave of spectacular acquisitions and business spending that helped power the 1990's economic boom, are now turning cautious about the United States economy.

The problem was that even after spending a spectacular $185 million on marketing, a huge staff and confusing (but very, very hip) site design, the old Boo.com couldn't persuade enough shoppers to buy things.

He is forgoing the opportunity to make big pre-election tax cuts and opting instead for a spectacular increase in public spending, of which the great bulk an additional £2 billion ($3.1 billion) in the coming year alone is to be poured into the National Health Service.What is risky about spending so much on a cause as popular as the NHS?

This from a runner whose career had frequently been spent in spectacular flameouts.