Sentence examples for spent items from inspiring English sources

How much time a week do you spend on 'well spent' items and 'wasted' items?

Try to fill the coming week with as many 'well spent' items as you can.

Now take out your appointment book or calendar and make a note to repeat all of the 'well spent' items that you can get to this week and add others that you want to do but didn't get to.

What he couldn't get, or at least couldn't count on getting, were various spending items.

The governor went on to defend the advertisement by citing as examples spending items that Mr. McCain had listed on his Web site of wasteful spending by Congress.

This list, though not all-inclusive, shows most of the $20.3 billion in spending items requested by the Coalition Provisional Authority, headed by Mr. Bremer, and the administration's justifications and explanations.

A self-described "earmarks guy" who specializes in spending items, Mr. Dyer said the new rules were an invitation to scandal hunters.

As a result, the governor's ability to veto specific spending items in the budget has loomed as a major influence on the annual budget dance.

Even White House aides said Mr. Cantor and his team had been successful in seizing on spending items in the stimulus bill to sow doubts about it with the public.

In 1981 and 1982, the Legislature cut him out of the budget-making process; when he vetoed dozens of spending items, both houses overrode his vetoes.

Aides said his proposal would let the president sign a bill while sending back to Congress a list of spending items he rejects, after which legislation rescinding any of those items would be guaranteed a swift up-or-down vote.