Sentence examples for spending sets from inspiring English sources

"Section X", according to a follow-up Times piece, is a semi-secret society of extremely wealthy students whose spending sets the tone for the rest of the MBA programme.

The school received a lot of flak last year after an expose in the New York Times (which we covered here) led many to voice concern that it remains a bastion of class and privilege ("Section X", a semi-secret society of extremely wealthy students whose spending sets the tone for the rest of the MBA programme, came in for particular criticism).

"The enormous amount of existing, if illicit, consumer spending sets cannabis apart from most other major consumer-market investment opportunities throughout history," Arcview Market Research CEO Troy Dayton explained in an emailed statement.

The transport department's guidelines on road safety spending set a price of just over £1m per life.

Sweden has the biggest government among the rich countries, with public spending set to reach 52% of GDP this year.

In January, the $1.058 trillion in discretionary spending set by law in 2011 will drop to $967 billion without Congressional intervention.

India's economy has been helped by a boom in rural spending set off by strength in agriculture.

He failed to match his 1981 tax cuts with commensurate cuts in public spending, setting off a huge explosion in the deficit.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Retail sales barely rose in January as tax increases and higher gasoline prices restrained spending, setting up the economy for only modest growth in the first quarter.

Successive policy makers, worried about rising expenditures and falling tax revenue, ignored Keynes's calls for public spending, setting off what he called a "vicious circle".

In the most recent quarter, that area took 17.5percentt of spending, up from around 11percentt in the early 1980s when the fuel spending set a record.