Sentence examples for spending a form from inspiring English sources

The fallout of the Citizens United ruling, which makes political spending a form of protected speech, creates a political climate that tries hard to tell us "if we can buy this air time, we can tell you anything".

By 1939, close to one third of Americans admitted to spending a nickel on some form of gambling.

She must have forgotten she was talking to a man who spent a season forming a bow and arrow with his hands whenever Mariano Rivera of the Yankees was about to deliver a pitch, releasing the imaginary arrow when he let the ball fly.

Taxpayer money should not be spent supporting a form of energy that is destabilizing the climate.

According to MusicWatch's Russ Crupnick, in 2013 only 45% of the 190 million Internet users in the U.S. bought music in any form, spending an average $55.45 per year.

The theory, of course, will be that, if political spending is a form of speech, there should be no limit on spending that "speaks" directly to a candidate who shares one's policy views.

Critics of infrastructure spending as a form of fiscal stimulus point out that the lags in such spending are long and variable.

Formed to curb candidates' dependence on big donors without running afoul of Supreme Court rulings protecting political spending as a form of free speech, the system provides taxpayer money for candidates who voluntarily agree to abide by spending limits.

Citizens United argued, successfully, that political spending was a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment.

The Court had come to see campaign spending as a form of speech, but one that clearly could be regulated, especially if the speaker was a business.

Yochai Benkler, a professor at Harvard Law School, told me, "What we've seen is the use of drumbeating as justification for major defense spending of a form that would otherwise be hard to justify".