Sentence examples for spending off from inspiring English sources

Pushing much of the stimulus spending off until this year made that less of a problem.

The meetings and conventions business has fared somewhat better, with total events and spending off less than 2percentt.

The Treasury may be tempted to continue new projects, which allow big capital builds without an initial outlay from the public purse, because it keeps spending off the balance-sheet, the report says.

For all the talk of greater efficiency, the real attraction of building and running schools and hospitals, say, through a PFI arrangement is that it allows the government to shove spending off the official balance sheet (although that loophole is to be closed next year).Yet not all PFIs have been disasters.

Expatriate Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who bought heavily indebted Chelsea two years ago and who has spent lavishly on building a world-class team, is spending off the pitch too (See "Russian Roulette").

At a time when many of the league's neophyte players are spending off-days in their hotel rooms -- locked in Sony PlayStation wars -- the Jazz is truly from another era.

The hours that they spend off the Internet aren't about purifying the soul but about streamlining the mind.

One reason, he said, was the two years he spent off to the side of the parent airline.

Her sister takes care of a "number of tasks" when her full time assistant has time off to spend off with her daughter, said Kirkbride.

The agency won't be moving spend off Facebook.

People will spend off hours seeking information from beefed-up online sites of national media, social networks like Twitter and bloggers.