Sentence examples for spending mistakes from inspiring English sources

Be honest about spending mistakes of the past.

Mr. Schwarzenegger said he recognized that the borrowing would be controversial, but he said that the deficit was too large to balance only through budget cuts and that it was unfair to ask Californians to pay higher taxes for spending mistakes he attributed to elected officials.

"Education is absolutely the last thing that should get squeezed because it's absurd to try to make amends for the spending mistakes of the past by jeopardizing the prospects of the next generation," said Ignacio Valero, an economics professor at the Complutense University, who stayed away from work and planned to join thousands of others on a protest march in central Madrid late Tuesday afternoon.

Rather than cutting the deficit, they used the spending mistakes of the Bush-era as a license to pile up exponentially more debt.

Instead of canceling Christmas altogether on account of zero gifts, emerge from the Christmas crunch, debt free, with armfuls of gifts by avoiding these big-time shopping and spending mistakes.

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing".

So was the spending a mistake?

My second term was spent making mistakes, feeling clueless and endlessly bumbling my way around a still-new city and into new people.

The Rt Rev Tim Ellis, from Baroness Thatcher's birthplace in Lincolnshire, has called the millions likely to be spent a "mistake".

If I looked back, I'd say we made plenty of mistakes, spent too much money.

He readily admits mistakes, spends little time basking in his (many) achievements and is quick to make a compliment.