Sentence examples for spending on something from inspiring English sources

Historically, buying clothes was in essence and for the vast majority of people, equivalent to spending on something practical to cover up ones' nudity, and survive under given climatic conditions.

The amount spent on school equipment remains unchanged, but spending on something else – military hardware, perhaps?

"Is it possible to make a system that's too easy to use, where you reduce so much friction from the transaction process that people aren't necessarily aware of what they're spending on something?" asked Jan Chipchase, executive creative director at the design firm Frog Design, who studies mobile payments.

Not to be impolite, but Republicans like Karl Rove and Senator Susan Collins (along with some Democrats) lost credibility on this front when they scolded Mr. Obama a few months ago for proposing stimulus spending on something as frivolous as... preparations for a flu pandemic.

"Re-prioritisation and re-alignment means spending money on this [and] means not spending on something else.

BERG is hoping to keep increasing the choice of publications — so buying the Little Printer is a bit of a leap of faith, since you're spending on something that might blossom into a rich and vibrant ecosystem.

If you buy it, then I have $100 I can go spend on something else, but the reality is that no value has been created.

It may be really tempting to make a big spend on something when a really big job pays you, but you must refrain from doing so.

If money is spent on one expense, it cannot be spent on something else.

At least £9bn was spent on something.

That's $1.14bn spent on something; most likely the PlayBook.