Sentence examples for spending points from inspiring English sources

But Sears announces that it's closing a bunch of stores, and consumer and business spending points to slower growth — a forecast supported by numbers from the advertising industry.

As a measurable sign of decay, potholes are also a stark sign of cutbacks in local-government spending, points out Anne Western, the leader of the Labour group in Derbyshire.

However, when coupled with a relatively higher rate of inflation, the slack consumer spending points to a bigger problem.

Notable high spending points points are in the areas of virtualization as well as optimistic staffing increases, especially in companies with under 20 employees.

You gain new abilities and upgrade your ship not through interesting quests or meeting interesting people, but simply by spending points and resources.

As marketing costs in the new era of financial supermarkets have ballooned, research and due diligence expenditures at many brokerage firms have not kept up with that spending, points out A. Michael Lipper, whose firm, Lipper Analytical Securities, follows the brokerage industry.

Those who think Americans are likely to reduce their spending point to two related factors.

On Saturday, Mr. Stringer's campaign again attacked Mr. Spitzer for his spending, pointing out the money he paid to hire workers to gather signatures.

Republican county legislators accused Mr. Spano of lavish spending, pointing also to current projects including the purchase of Davids Island for $6 million.

In a column in the Washington Post on Tuesday, Larry Summers, a big proponent of additional infrastructure spending, pointed to a chart showing how public support for the Liberal Party picked up after late August, when it announced its economic plan.

Committee member Kevin Yoder (R-KS), one of several new Republican members in Congress who are advocating large cuts in government spending, pointed to the $1.6 billion cost overruns in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as an example.