Sentence examples for spending contests from inspiring English sources
A progressive income tax that exempts savings would divert billions of dollars from wasteful mine-is-bigger spending contests.
A slugfest between SEIU and AFSCME in Vermont would be a throwback to the frenzied spending contests waged by the same two unions over home-based workers in 2004-2005.
MR. BUSH -- If this were a spending contest, I'd come in second.
"If this were a spending contest, I'd come in second," Mr. Bush said.
"If this were a spending contest," he said, "I'd come in second".
He feels that Formula One had become too much of a spending contest over the past few years.
When he first ran for president, he said he believed in limited government, and boasted that if his race with Al Gore were a spending contest, "I would come in second".
He used a prepared line to underscore his big-spender charge -- "If this were a spending contest, I'd come in second" -- and closed strongly by reciting the promise that most irritates die-hard Clintonites: "to uphold the dignity and honor of the office".
The absurd spending contest is a total lose-lose situation.
The macho spending contest by Russian oligarchs is making property agents giddy.
They had the hard-nosed experience that comes with careers spent contesting knock-out matches.
